# Candidate programs: update, delete

URL: /code/mcp/candidate/records-update · Id: `page:code/mcp/candidate/records-update`

> The Candidate Verbs update, delete as MCP do programs, with inputs, result, refusals and an example.

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

### Candidate.update
Changes the given properties of a Candidate. [Verb page](/business/nouns/candidate/update?interface=mcp).

```text
do: return await $.Candidate.update(input)
```

Emits `Candidate.updated`.

**Inputs**

| Input | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `id` | `string` | Yes | The id of the Candidate. |
| `opening` | [Opening](/business/nouns/opening) | No | The Opening the Person is considered for. |
| `person` | [Person](/business/nouns/person) | No | The Person, whose record crosses Startups only with Consent. |
| `source` | `string` | No | One of `pool`, `prospecting`, `listing`, or `referral`. |
| `delta` | `json` | No | The per-Verb difference between the Candidate and the incumbent Agent in the tryout. |

**Returns**

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

**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**

```json
{
  "name": "do",
  "arguments": {
    "code": "return await $.Candidate.update({ id: 'candidate_CR5hpwMwhW', opening: 'opening_3rD8qFSOyQ' })"
  }
}
```

### Candidate.delete
Deletes a Candidate: a soft delete that keeps its history, undone by `Thing.restore`. [Verb page](/business/nouns/candidate/delete?interface=mcp).

```text
do: return await $.Candidate.delete(input)
```

Emits `Candidate.deleted`.

**Inputs**

| Input | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `id` | `string` | Yes | The id of the Candidate. |

**Returns**

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

**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**

```json
{
  "name": "do",
  "arguments": {
    "code": "return await $.Candidate.delete({ id: 'candidate_CR5hpwMwhW' })"
  }
}
```