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title: "Toggle Automation Status"
description: "Toggle an automation rule between active and inactive."
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# Toggle Automation Status

Use the Speak AI MCP server tool `toggle_automation_status` to toggle an automation
rule between active and inactive.

## What does it do?

Toggle an automation rule between active and inactive. This flips the current state:
call `get_automation` first if you need to know which way it will flip.

## Parameters

`toggle_automation_status` takes 1 parameter, all of them required.

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `automationId` | string | Yes | Unique identifier of the automation |

## Behaviour

The Speak AI MCP server publishes these behaviour hints for
`toggle_automation_status`.

- Can change data in your workspace.
- Does not delete or overwrite existing data.
- Repeating an identical call can have an extra effect.
- Can reach systems outside Speak AI.

## Related

- [Automations](/mcp/tools/automations/) lists the rest of the Automations category.
- [Tool reference](/mcp/tools/) lists every Speak AI MCP server tool.
- [MCP server](/mcp/) covers setup, supported clients, and what agents can do once
  connected.

Source: https://docs.speakai.co/mcp/tools/automations/toggle_automation_status/index.mdx