# deprovision

URL: /business/nouns/member-directory/deprovision · Id: `verb:MemberDirectory.deprovision` · Call: `await $.MemberDirectory.deprovision({ … })` (SDK) or the `do` tool at `https://api.sb/mcp`. Inputs says what to pass, Outputs what returns, When it waits who approves.

> Deprovision ends one person’s access to a Tenant in one Action when the Customer’s directory removes them.

Deprovision ends one person’s access to a [Tenant](/business/nouns/tenant) in one [Action](/business/nouns/action) when the [Customer](/business/nouns/customer)’s directory removes them.

## Inputs
| Input | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `directory` | [Member Directory](/business/nouns/member-directory) | Yes | The Member Directory that removed the person. |
| `person` | [Person](/business/nouns/person) | Yes | The person removed. |

## Outputs
| Output | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `person` | [Person](/business/nouns/person) | Yes | The person, with no Role left in the Tenant. |
| `memberDirectory` | [Member Directory](/business/nouns/member-directory) | Yes | The Member Directory that removed the person. |

## Effects
- Emits [`MemberDirectory.deprovisioned`](/business/events/MemberDirectory.deprovisioned).
- Performed by the [Security Engineer](/agents/engineering/security-engineer).
- Two-way: it runs at once, in the `try`, `send` and `do` modes.
- Revokes the person’s keys, sign-ins and Mandates in the Tenant before their next call.
- Keeps every record the person made, owned by the Tenant.

## 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. | [MemberDirectory.deprovision](/business/nouns/member-directory/deprovision) |

## When it waits
| Gate | Default |
| --- | --- |
| Decision class | Low: two-way, nothing at stake |
| [Delay window](/systems/trust-and-governance/controls/one-way-windows) | None: it runs once review passes. |
| Limit | The call [Limit](/business/nouns/limit) of the [Permission](/business/nouns/permission) it runs under. |
| Over the Limit | It waits `pending` for an [Approval](/business/nouns/approval) from the [Founder](/agents/founding/founder). Approved, it runs; refused, it ends `refused` with [`limit-exceeded`](/code/api/errors/limit-exceeded); unanswered by its deadline, it ends `canceled`. |

## Example

**Ask**

```text
Deprovision the latest member directory with a person.
```

**API**

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.sb/shiftnote.app/member-directories/member_directory_1/deprovision \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STARTUP_BUILDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"person":"person_1"}'
```

```json
{
  "api": "https://api.sb/shiftnote.app",
  "person": {
    "$id": "https://api.sb/shiftnote.app/people/person_1",
    "$type": "Person",
    "name": "Daniel Okafor"
  },
  "memberDirectory": {
    "$id": "https://api.sb/shiftnote.app/member-directories/member_directory_1",
    "$type": "MemberDirectory",
    "state": "draft"
  },
  "action": {
    "$id": "https://api.sb/shiftnote.app/actions/action_1",
    "operation": "MemberDirectory.deprovision",
    "status": "done"
  },
  "links": {
    "self": "https://api.sb/shiftnote.app/actions/action_1"
  }
}
```

**SDK**

```ts
import { $ } from 'startup-builder'

const { person, memberDirectory } = await $.MemberDirectory.deprovision({ directory: 'member_directory_1', person: 'person_1' })
```

**CLI**

```bash
npx startup-builder do MemberDirectory.deprovision --json '{"directory":"member_directory_1","person":"person_1"}'
```

**MCP**

```json
{
  "name": "do",
  "arguments": {
    "code": "return await $.MemberDirectory.deprovision({ directory: 'member_directory_1', person: 'person_1' })"
  }
}
```