---
title: "Redraft a build’s reply – Superbot API"
canonical_url: "https://superbot.gg/developers/builds#redraftXBuildReply"
last_updated: "2026-10-01"
summary: "Re-run the reply bot for a published job (after a reply was refused or the operator wanted different wording) and return the new sentence."
---

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# Redraft a build’s reply

`POST /v1/x-builds/{id}/reply-draft`

Re-run the reply bot for a published job (after a reply was refused or the operator wanted different wording) and return the new sentence.

- Operation id: `redraftXBuildReply`
- Group: [Builds](https://superbot.gg/developers/builds.md)
- Auth: A caller key holding `builds:write` (`Authorization: Bearer sbc_…` or `x-api-key: sbc_…`), or a signed-in session.
- Scopes: `builds:write`

## Path parameters

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `id` | string | required |  |

## Response 200

The new reply draft.

`application/json`: object.

- `reply` (any)

## Errors

Every refusal carries `error`, `message`, `doc_url` and `request_id`; the gateway routes answer in the dialect you dialed.

| Status | Codes | When |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 401 | [`unauthorized`](https://superbot.gg/developers#errors-unauthorized) | The bearer is missing, malformed or unknown. |
| 403 | [`insufficient_scope`](https://superbot.gg/developers#errors-insufficient_scope) | The key lacks a scope (insufficient_scope), is revoked, or may not call this route. |
| 404 | [`not_found`](https://superbot.gg/developers#errors-not_found) | No such resource on this account. |
| 409 | [`conflict`](https://superbot.gg/developers#errors-conflict) | The resource is not in a state that allows this change. |
| 502 | — | The drafter could not be reached. |

## Examples

```sh
curl -sS -X POST "https://superbot.gg/v1/x-builds/$ID/reply-draft" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SUPERBOT_API_KEY"
```

```js
const id = 'ID';
const res = await fetch(`https://superbot.gg/v1/x-builds/${id}/reply-draft`, {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.SUPERBOT_API_KEY}`,
  },
});
console.log(res.status, await res.json());
```

```python
import os
import requests

id = "ID"
res = requests.request(
    "POST",
    f"https://superbot.gg/v1/x-builds/{id}/reply-draft",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['SUPERBOT_API_KEY']}",
    },
)
print(res.status_code, res.json())
```
