# Risk commands: update

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

> The Risk Verbs update as CLI commands, with inputs, result, refusals and an example.

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

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

```text
npx startup-builder do Risk.update --json '<input>' [--try | --send | --do]
```

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
npx startup-builder do Risk.update --json '{"id":"risk_a3Rw0qcmRy","likelihood":1}'
```