# Risk routes: update

URL: /code/api/risk/records-update · Id: `page:code/api/risk/records-update`

> The Risk Verbs update as api.sb routes, with inputs, result, refusals and an example.

Reference for [Risk](/business/nouns/risk), one group of [Risk routes](/code/api/risk).

### Risk.update
Changes the given properties of a Risk. [Verb page](/business/nouns/risk/update?interface=api).

```text
PATCH /{namespace}/risks/{id}
```

Path: `id`. Body, as JSON: the other inputs. Emits `Risk.updated`.

**Inputs**

| Input | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `id` | `string` | Yes | The id of the Risk. |
| `scope` | `string` | No | Whose Risk it is: `startup` or `portfolio`, for exposure shared across siblings. |
| `likelihood` | `integer` | No | How likely it is within a year, from 1 (rare) to 5 (expected). |
| `impact` | `integer` | No | How much harm it does if it happens, from 1 (minor) to 5 (ends the Startup). |
| `treatment` | `string` | No | The chosen response: `treat`, `accept`, `transfer`, or `avoid`. |
| `owner` | [Role](/business/nouns/role) | No | The Role that owns the Risk and its next review. |
| `reviewBy` | `date` | No | When the owner next scores it again. |

**Returns**

| Output | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `risk` | [Risk](/business/nouns/risk) | Yes | The Risk. |

**Refuses when**

| Check | Error | Fix | Then call |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| The key is valid, but its scopes do not allow this operation. | [`forbidden`](/code/api/errors/forbidden) | Use a key whose scopes cover the operation, or ask an owner of the namespace to grant them. | None. |

**Example**

```bash
curl -X PATCH https://api.sb/leaseline.app/risks/risk_a3Rw0qcmRy \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STARTUP_BUILDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"likelihood":1}'
```

```json
{
  "api": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app",
  "risk": {
    "$id": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/risks/risk_a3Rw0qcmRy",
    "$type": "Risk",
    "scope": "Example scope",
    "likelihood": 1,
    "impact": 1,
    "owner": "role_oloMFMUeCH"
  },
  "action": {
    "$id": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/actions/act_br07HsG8MG",
    "operation": "Risk.update",
    "status": "done"
  },
  "links": {
    "self": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/actions/act_br07HsG8MG"
  }
}
```