Edit a comment

PATCH/repos/{owner}/{name}/issues/comments/{comment_id}

Its author may edit it, and so may anyone with the Maintain role or higher. Notes of what happened, such as “closed this”, cannot be edited. Publishes comment.edited with what it said before.

Its author, or someone with the Maintain role or higher. A note of something that happened answers 409.

• Authentication: Required. Send an access token as Authorization: Bearer.
• MCP tool: issue with action edit_comment, and the same inputs
• Scope: An access token needs issues:write.

Path parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
owner	string	Yes	The workspace that owns the repository.
name	string	Yes	The repository’s name.
comment_id	string	Yes	The comment’s id, such as “cmt_01J9Z8”: each comment’s id in get_issue or get_pull_request.

Body parameters

Send a JSON object. Names are snake_case, as in responses; the camelCase spelling is accepted too.

Name	Type	Required	Description
body	string	Yes	The new text, in Markdown.

Example request

curl -X PATCH https://api.g1t.sh/repos/flagon-io/hello/issues/comments/cmt_01m43sv4c8e2g6j0m4q8t2x6a1 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $G1T_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "body": "Should an empty name fall back to \"world\", or print the usage?"
  }'

Example response

A successful request answers 200 with:

{
  "id": "cmt_01m43sv4c8e2g6j0m4q8t2x6a1",
  "kind": "comment",
  "author": {
    "id": "usr_01kkntcg1eeb98j62xjm7eh09p",
    "username": "syntaqx",
    "display_username": "syntaqx",
    "kind": "user",
    "verified": true,
    "workspaces": [
      {
        "slug": "flagon-io",
        "role": "owner"
      }
    ]
  },
  "body": "Should an empty name fall back to \"world\", or print the usage?",
  "path": null,
  "line": null,
  "verdict": null,
  "created_at": "2026-10-01T18:12:30.551Z",
  "edited_at": "2026-10-01T18:30:04.210Z"
}

Errors

A failed request answers with one of these statuses and a body like {"error": {"code": "not_found", "message": "Repository not found."}}. See errors.

Status	Code	When
401	unauthenticated	A token is required, or the one sent is not valid.
403	forbidden	The token is valid but not allowed to do this, such as a member-only change or an agent token outside its repository.
404	not_found	It does not exist, or you cannot see it.
409	conflict	The request conflicts with the current state.
422	invalid	The input is not valid. message says which field and why.