You might be overthinking the Value field. It is a little odd the way the node is constructing the API call, but the Column Name or ID already specifies the description (attribute name) part. All you probably need in the Value field is a quoted string "Done" and switch it back to “fixed” instead of “expression”.
column_id comes from the Column Name or ID field (picked from drop-down)
value comes from the Value field (entered as text that would be valid where "Done" appears in the example above… double-quotes make it “valid json” to make the n8n field-validator happy)
Ok that solved it. I think I was getting confused between the change single column and change_multiple_columns mutation. (Which is really the one that I want). I think that this one requires key value pairs, but i’m getting the same error when I format like this: