update_file_content
Surgical find/replace in one file
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Apply one or more literal find/replace edits to a single file on the site, in one tool call. Designed for tiny edits where uploading the full file would be wasteful (one nav-button reference, one encoding fix, one env var bump). Each edit must specify how many matches it expects; mismatches abort the whole call with NO writes. For dist edits the change goes live immediately; for source edits you still need to call build_and_deploy.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| name | string | yes | Site name. |
| path | string | yes | File-relative path inside the chosen target tree. |
| target | string | no | Which tree to edit. 'dist' (default) edits the served file directly — visitors see the change immediately. 'source' edits the editable source tree; you'll need build_and_deploy (or it short-circuits via noBuild) to ship. |
| edits | array | yes | Ordered list of edits to apply atomically. Each is `{find, replace, count?}`. If any edit's match count doesn't equal its expected count, the whole call aborts with no writes. |
Raw JSON schema
{
"$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"name": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Site name."
},
"path": {
"type": "string",
"description": "File-relative path inside the chosen target tree."
},
"target": {
"description": "Which tree to edit. 'dist' (default) edits the served file directly — visitors see the change immediately. 'source' edits the editable source tree; you'll need build_and_deploy (or it short-circuits via noBuild) to ship.",
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"dist",
"source"
]
},
"edits": {
"minItems": 1,
"maxItems": 50,
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"find": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 1,
"maxLength": 65536,
"description": "Literal string to find. Not a regex (no escaping needed). Max 64 KB."
},
"replace": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 65536,
"description": "Literal replacement. Max 64 KB. Empty string to delete the matched text."
},
"count": {
"description": "Expected number of matches. Default 1 (fail if 0 or >1 — protects against unintended bulk edits). Use -1 for replace-all. Use a positive integer to assert an exact count.",
"type": "integer",
"minimum": -9007199254740991,
"maximum": 9007199254740991
}
},
"required": [
"find",
"replace"
]
},
"description": "Ordered list of edits to apply atomically. Each is `{find, replace, count?}`. If any edit's match count doesn't equal its expected count, the whole call aborts with no writes."
}
},
"required": [
"name",
"path",
"edits"
]
}