transition_candidacy
Move a candidacy through the funnel
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Advance one candidacy along the employer edges — screening_passed / interviewing / offered / accepted / declined. Passes while the job is published; an unpublished job refuses (job_not_published). A record on the agreed terms names no job and passes. withdrawn is the candidate's verb and converted has its own tool, convert_candidacy — neither is accepted as input. Backward moves and moves out of a terminal state refuse naming the invalid edge. A document-stage decision (applied → screening_passed / declined) on a job whose document screening has required aspects refuses required_unanswered — that decision is recorded on the web decision surface, not from here. Reaching offered while the candidate's name is still closed to your organization files the candidate a name share request (their own decision); accepted refuses identity_closed with nothing written until the candidate has disclosed their name — never retry it on their behalf.
Input schema
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"candidacyId": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uuid",
"pattern": "^([0-9a-fA-F]{8}-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}-[1-8][0-9a-fA-F]{3}-[89abAB][0-9a-fA-F]{3}-[0-9a-fA-F]{12}|00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000|ffffffff-ffff-ffff-ffff-ffffffffffff)$",
"description": "The candidacy to move (candidacies.id)."
},
"to": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"screening_passed",
"interviewing",
"offered",
"accepted",
"declined"
],
"description": "The target state — employer edges only: forward moves plus declined. withdrawn/converted are not reachable from this surface."
}
},
"required": [
"candidacyId",
"to"
],
"$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#"
}Output schema
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"candidacy": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"candidacyId": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uuid",
"pattern": "^([0-9a-fA-F]{8}-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}-[1-8][0-9a-fA-F]{3}-[89abAB][0-9a-fA-F]{3}-[0-9a-fA-F]{12}|00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000|ffffffff-ffff-ffff-ffff-ffffffffffff)$",
"description": "The selection record (candidacies.id)."
},
"jobId": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string",
"format": "uuid",
"pattern": "^([0-9a-fA-F]{8}-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}-[1-8][0-9a-fA-F]{3}-[89abAB][0-9a-fA-F]{3}-[0-9a-fA-F]{12}|00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000|ffffffff-ffff-ffff-ffff-ffffffffffff)$"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"description": "The job this selection record is on (jobs.id) when the seat is a job's; null on the agreed terms."
},
"agreementId": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string",
"format": "uuid",
"pattern": "^([0-9a-fA-F]{8}-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}-[1-8][0-9a-fA-F]{3}-[89abAB][0-9a-fA-F]{3}-[0-9a-fA-F]{12}|00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000|ffffffff-ffff-ffff-ffff-ffffffffffff)$"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"description": "The agreed terms this selection record is on (agreements.id) when the seat is the agreement's; null on a job seat — exactly one of jobId / agreementId is set (ADR-0229)."
},
"origin": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"external"
],
"description": "Candidacy origin: \"external\" (the selection record opened from outside the organization). The state machine never conditions on it."
},
"state": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"applied",
"screening_passed",
"interviewing",
"offered",
"accepted",
"converted",
"withdrawn",
"declined"
],
"description": "Candidacy state: the active pipeline \"applied\" → \"screening_passed\" → \"interviewing\" → \"offered\" → \"accepted\" → \"converted\", plus the terminal negatives \"withdrawn\" (seeker-initiated) and \"declined\" (hirer-initiated)."
},
"profileVersion": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "integer",
"minimum": 1,
"maximum": 9007199254740991
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"description": "The profile_versions.version pinned when the record opened (int >= 1); null when the person had no profile version yet."
},
"appliedAt": {
"type": "string",
"format": "date-time",
"pattern": "^(?:(?:\\d\\d[2468][048]|\\d\\d[13579][26]|\\d\\d0[48]|[02468][048]00|[13579][26]00)-02-29|\\d{4}-(?:(?:0[13578]|1[02])-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\\d|3[01])|(?:0[469]|11)-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\\d|30)|(?:02)-(?:0[1-9]|1\\d|2[0-8])))T(?:(?:[01]\\d|2[0-3]):[0-5]\\d(?::[0-5]\\d(?:\\.\\d+)?)?(?:Z))$",
"description": "When the selection record opened (applied), ISO 8601 datetime (UTC)."
},
"stateChangedAt": {
"type": "string",
"format": "date-time",
"pattern": "^(?:(?:\\d\\d[2468][048]|\\d\\d[13579][26]|\\d\\d0[48]|[02468][048]00|[13579][26]00)-02-29|\\d{4}-(?:(?:0[13578]|1[02])-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\\d|3[01])|(?:0[469]|11)-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\\d|30)|(?:02)-(?:0[1-9]|1\\d|2[0-8])))T(?:(?:[01]\\d|2[0-3]):[0-5]\\d(?::[0-5]\\d(?:\\.\\d+)?)?(?:Z))$",
"description": "When the current state was entered, ISO 8601 datetime (UTC)."
}
},
"required": [
"candidacyId",
"jobId",
"agreementId",
"origin",
"state",
"profileVersion",
"appliedAt",
"stateChangedAt"
],
"additionalProperties": false,
"description": "One selection record as a write result (withdraw): the candidacy row's state and its seat — a job or the agreed terms — no job join."
},
"transition": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"from": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"applied",
"screening_passed",
"interviewing",
"offered",
"accepted",
"converted",
"withdrawn",
"declined"
],
"description": "Candidacy state: the active pipeline \"applied\" → \"screening_passed\" → \"interviewing\" → \"offered\" → \"accepted\" → \"converted\", plus the terminal negatives \"withdrawn\" (seeker-initiated) and \"declined\" (hirer-initiated)."
},
"to": {
"type": "string",
"enum": [
"applied",
"screening_passed",
"interviewing",
"offered",
"accepted",
"converted",
"withdrawn",
"declined"
],
"description": "Candidacy state: the active pipeline \"applied\" → \"screening_passed\" → \"interviewing\" → \"offered\" → \"accepted\" → \"converted\", plus the terminal negatives \"withdrawn\" (seeker-initiated) and \"declined\" (hirer-initiated)."
},
"occurredAt": {
"type": "string",
"format": "date-time",
"pattern": "^(?:(?:\\d\\d[2468][048]|\\d\\d[13579][26]|\\d\\d0[48]|[02468][048]00|[13579][26]00)-02-29|\\d{4}-(?:(?:0[13578]|1[02])-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\\d|3[01])|(?:0[469]|11)-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\\d|30)|(?:02)-(?:0[1-9]|1\\d|2[0-8])))T(?:(?:[01]\\d|2[0-3]):[0-5]\\d(?::[0-5]\\d(?:\\.\\d+)?)?(?:Z))$",
"description": "When the transition happened, ISO 8601 datetime (UTC)."
},
"actorToken": {
"description": "Opaque subject_token of the actor who drove the transition, if any.",
"type": "string",
"format": "uuid",
"pattern": "^([0-9a-fA-F]{8}-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}-[1-8][0-9a-fA-F]{3}-[89abAB][0-9a-fA-F]{3}-[0-9a-fA-F]{12}|00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000|ffffffff-ffff-ffff-ffff-ffffffffffff)$"
}
},
"required": [
"from",
"to",
"occurredAt"
],
"additionalProperties": false,
"description": "The appended history row, with the credential's subject_token as actor."
},
"outcomeRecorded": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "True iff the transition emitted a match_outcomes capture row (declined and accepted do; forward moves do not)."
}
},
"required": [
"candidacy",
"transition",
"outcomeRecorded"
],
"$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
"additionalProperties": false
}