PATCH/api/v1/datasets/{datasetId}

Update dataset metadata

Updates name, description, or tags on a dataset. Mass-assignment-safe (ADR-0017): only those fields are accepted. Versioned data is immutable — to change rows, create a new version via POST /api/v1/datasets/versions.

Authentication

Send Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY on every request. Generate API keys at /dashboard/api-keys.

Request body required

Example

{
  "name": "string",
  "description": "string",
  "tags": [
    "string"
  ]
}
Schema
{
  "application/json": {
    "schema": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "name": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "description": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "tags": {
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
            "type": "string"
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Response

200 example

{
  "success": true
}

All status codes

200Dataset updated.
400(no description)
401(no description)
403Forbidden — insufficient role for this operation.
404(no description)
429(no description)

Code samples

cURL

curl -X PATCH \
  https://evalguard.ai/api/v1/datasets/{datasetId} \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $EVALGUARD_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "name": "string", "description": "string", "tags": [ "string" ] }'

TypeScript

import { EvalGuard } from "@evalguard/sdk";

const client = new EvalGuard({ apiKey: process.env.EVALGUARD_API_KEY });

const response = await client.request({
  method: "PATCH",
  path: "/api/v1/datasets/{datasetId}",
  body: {
    "name": "string",
    "description": "string",
    "tags": [
      "string"
    ]
  },
});
console.log(response);

Python

from evalguard import EvalGuard
import os

client = EvalGuard(api_key=os.environ["EVALGUARD_API_KEY"])

response = client.request(
    method="PATCH",
    path="/api/v1/datasets/{datasetId}",
    body={
    "name": "string",
    "description": "string",
    "tags": [
        "string"
    ]
},
)
print(response)

Go

package main

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"os"

	"github.com/evalguard/evalguard-go"
)

func main() {
	client := evalguard.NewClient(os.Getenv("EVALGUARD_API_KEY"))
	resp, err := client.Request(context.Background(), "PATCH", "/api/v1/datasets/{datasetId}", map[string]any{"name": "string", "description": "string", "tags": []any{"string"}})
	if err != nil { panic(err) }
	fmt.Println(resp)
}

Errors

400401403404429

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