# Candidate commands: screen

URL: /code/cli/candidate/verbs · Id: `page:code/cli/candidate/verbs`

> The Candidate Verbs screen as CLI commands, with inputs, result, refusals and an example.

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

### Candidate.screen
Screen asks a Candidate only what the Opening’s Hypothesis still lacks, in writing, and grades each answer as Evidence. [Verb page](/business/nouns/candidate/screen?interface=cli).

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

Emits [`Candidate.screened`](/business/events/Candidate.screened).

**Inputs**

| Input | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `candidate` | [Candidate](/business/nouns/candidate) | Yes | The Candidate to screen. |

**Returns**

| Output | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `candidate` | [Candidate](/business/nouns/candidate) | Yes | The Candidate, with graded Evidence attached. |

**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 Candidate.screen --json '{"candidate":"candidate_CR5hpwMwhW"}'
```