> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.userecord.io/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Replace mandate skills > Replace only the skill list. Changing the verified skills regenerates the skill questions. **Scope:** `mandates:write` · **Idempotency-Key:** optional ## OpenAPI ````yaml /blue-collar-api/api-reference/openapi.json put /mandates/{mandate_id}/skills openapi: 3.1.0 info: title: Record Blue Collar API version: 1.0.0 description: >- Run Record candidate verification from your own system. You need two things: your **key id** and your **secret**. Everything else is generated. See Authentication for how. servers: - url: https://api-bc.userecord.io/api/v1/partner description: Blue Collar API security: [] tags: - name: Skills description: The skill taxonomy, read live a page at a time - name: Skill requests description: Ask Record to add a missing skill - name: Lookups description: >- Lookups for filling in a job mandate: places in India, the countries an abroad job can be in, and the employment types and shifts the playground offers - name: Workflows description: >- Your organisation's blue-collar workflows (read all; change and soft-delete only the ones you created) - name: Job mandates description: >- Your organisation's job mandates, addressed by Record's mandate_id (read all; change only the ones you created) - name: Campaigns description: Contact candidates for one of your jobs and verify them. Spends credits - name: Results description: >- What Record collected from each candidate: status (pending, completed, declined, failed) and an output of answers and verdicts - name: Events description: >- Pull your result events and acknowledge them: the safety net behind the webhook, and a way to receive results without exposing a URL - name: Webhooks description: >- Endpoints that Record POSTs result events to: signed, retried until you acknowledge, replayable - name: Analytics description: >- The workflow Overview analytics of the Record playground: funnel, channels, follow-ups, calls, drop-offs, languages (read-only, scope analytics:read) paths: /mandates/{mandate_id}/skills: put: tags: - Job mandates summary: Replace mandate skills description: >- Replace only the skill list. Changing the verified skills regenerates the skill questions. **Scope:** `mandates:write` · **Idempotency-Key:** optional operationId: setMandateSkillsById parameters: - name: mandate_id in: path required: true description: >- Record's mandate id (JM_...): the mandate_id returned when you create the mandate schema: type: string pattern: ^JM_[A-Z0-9]{10,40}$ example: JM_261009101612456H3N8W2L5C9V1Z4 - name: Idempotency-Key in: header required: false schema: type: string maxLength: 255 description: >- Optional. A retry with the same key returns the first answer (kept 24 h). Leave empty in Try it: a new one is made for every call. requestBody: required: true content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: skills: type: array items: anyOf: - type: object properties: skill_id: type: string pattern: ^sk_\d{1,9}$ verify: type: boolean default: false description: At most 3 per mandate, and only verifiable skills required: - skill_id additionalProperties: false - type: object properties: name: type: string minLength: 2 maxLength: 120 pending: const: true type: boolean description: >- A skill you asked Record to add (POST /skill-requests); cannot be verified required: - name - pending additionalProperties: false minItems: 1 maxItems: 50 description: 5 to 10 recommended; fewer than 5 is a warning required: - skills additionalProperties: false example: skills: - skill_id: sk_36440 verify: true - skill_id: sk_38973 verify: true - skill_id: sk_38824 verify: true - skill_id: sk_2338 - skill_id: sk_2452 - name: Reach Truck Operation pending: true responses: '202': description: Accepted (200 when nothing changed) content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: success: const: true type: boolean message: type: string data: type: object properties: mandate_id: type: string job_id: anyOf: - type: string - type: 'null' description: >- Your job id; null for a mandate created without one (it is known by its mandate_id) status: type: string enum: - preparing - ready - failed - archived flow_version: type: integer methods: type: array items: type: string enum: - data_enrichment - skill_verification - interest_collection changed: type: boolean description: false when the same mandate was sent again warnings: type: array items: type: string example: success: true data: mandate_id: JM_261009101612456H3N8W2L5C9V1Z4 job_id: job-10452 status: preparing flow_version: 2 methods: - data_enrichment - skill_verification - interest_collection changed: true warnings: [] '400': description: '`VALIDATION_FAILED`: Unknown or repeated skill.' content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' '403': description: '`FORBIDDEN`: Mandate was made in the playground.' content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' '404': description: '`NOT_FOUND`: No such mandate.' content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' '409': description: >- `CONFLICT`: Archived, still `preparing`, or too many changes this hour. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' '422': description: '`LIMIT_EXCEEDED`: More than 10 skills or 3 verified.' content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' security: - ApiKey: [] SecretKey: [] x-codeSamples: - lang: bash label: cURL source: >- pcall PUT "/api/v1/partner/mandates/JM_261009101612456H3N8W2L5C9V1Z4/skills" '{ "skills": [ { "skill_id": "sk_36440", "verify": true }, { "skill_id": "sk_38973", "verify": true }, { "skill_id": "sk_38824", "verify": true }, { "skill_id": "sk_2338" }, { "skill_id": "sk_2452" }, { "name": "Reach Truck Operation", "pending": true } ] }' - lang: javascript label: JavaScript source: >- const res = await call("PUT", "/api/v1/partner/mandates/JM_261009101612456H3N8W2L5C9V1Z4/skills", { "skills": [ { "skill_id": "sk_36440", "verify": true }, { "skill_id": "sk_38973", "verify": true }, { "skill_id": "sk_38824", "verify": true }, { "skill_id": "sk_2338" }, { "skill_id": "sk_2452" }, { "name": "Reach Truck Operation", "pending": true } ] }); const { data } = await res.json(); - lang: python label: Python source: >- res = call("PUT", "/api/v1/partner/mandates/JM_261009101612456H3N8W2L5C9V1Z4/skills", { "skills": [ { "skill_id": "sk_36440", "verify": True }, { "skill_id": "sk_38973", "verify": True }, { "skill_id": "sk_38824", "verify": True }, { "skill_id": "sk_2338" }, { "skill_id": "sk_2452" }, { "name": "Reach Truck Operation", "pending": True } ] }) data = res.json()["data"] components: schemas: Error: type: object properties: success: const: false type: boolean error: type: object properties: code: type: string enum: - VALIDATION_FAILED - LIMIT_EXCEEDED - UNAUTHORIZED - SCOPE_MISSING - FORBIDDEN - HTTPS_REQUIRED - NOT_FOUND - CONFLICT - WORKFLOW_IN_USE - INSUFFICIENT_CREDITS - IDEMPOTENCY_KEY_REQUIRED - IDEMPOTENCY_KEY_REUSED - IDEMPOTENCY_IN_PROGRESS - PAYLOAD_TOO_LARGE - UNSUPPORTED_MEDIA_TYPE - RATE_LIMITED - COOLDOWN - DAILY_CAP - SERVICE_DISABLED - SERVER_ERROR message: type: string details: type: array items: type: object properties: path: type: string message: type: string request_id: type: string description: Quote it to Record support securitySchemes: ApiKey: type: apiKey in: header name: x-api-key description: Your key id, `VFN_TEST_…` or `VFN_LIVE_…`. Sent on every request. SecretKey: type: apiKey in: header name: x-secret-key description: >- Your secret, `VFN_SK_…`. **Not a real header, and never sent to the API.** It is only a form field for Try it, which uses it to sign your request in your browser. In your own code you sign each request with the secret and send `x-api-key`, `x-timestamp` and `x-signature` (see Authentication). ```` This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.