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# Email a candidate

> Send an email to one candidate through Homerun. Inputs, cURL, Python and Node.js examples and an example response.

Source: https://cotlet.dev/docs/api/homerun/send_candidate_email

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Send an email to one candidate through Homerun.

Homerun API: https://cotlet.dev/docs/api/homerun.md

`POST https://cotlet.dev/api/v1/homerun/jobs/{job_id}/candidates/{candidate_id}/email`

Access: write. Confirm: waits for the user's OK before it runs.

Sends the email at once. It shows in the candidate's Activity and message modal, and a reply from the candidate lands there too. A sent email cannot be unsent. By default you confirm each call; you can switch that off for this tool.

## Parameters

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `job_id` | string | yes | Job ID from list_jobs. |
| `candidate_id` | string | yes | Candidate ID from list_candidates. |
| `body` | string | yes | The email text. |

## Request

**cURL**

```bash
curl -X POST https://cotlet.dev/api/v1/homerun/jobs/job_3b7e91/candidates/ap_K2mP7rS1uW5yA9bC3dE6/email \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $COTLET_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"body":"Hi Priya, thanks for applying. Your onboarding project at Northwind is exactly what this role is about. We decide on interviews by Friday and I will write to you then."}'
```

**Python**

```python
result = client.call("homerun", "send_candidate_email", {"job_id":"job_3b7e91","candidate_id":"ap_K2mP7rS1uW5yA9bC3dE6","body":"Hi Priya, thanks for applying. Your onboarding project at Northwind is exactly what this role is about. We decide on interviews by Friday and I will write to you then."})
```

**Node.js**

```js
const result = await cotlet.call('homerun', 'send_candidate_email', {"job_id":"job_3b7e91","candidate_id":"ap_K2mP7rS1uW5yA9bC3dE6","body":"Hi Priya, thanks for applying. Your onboarding project at Northwind is exactly what this role is about. We decide on interviews by Friday and I will write to you then."});
```

**CLI**

```bash
cotlet call homerun send_candidate_email --data '{"job_id":"job_3b7e91","candidate_id":"ap_K2mP7rS1uW5yA9bC3dE6","body":"Hi Priya, thanks for applying. Your onboarding project at Northwind is exactly what this role is about. We decide on interviews by Friday and I will write to you then."}'
```

## Example response

```json
{
  "candidate_id": "ap_K2mP7rS1uW5yA9bC3dE6",
  "status": "sent",
  "sent_at": "2026-10-22T09:12:00Z"
}
```

Previous: [Disqualify a candidate](https://cotlet.dev/docs/api/homerun/disqualify_candidate.md)
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## For AI agents: sign your user up

Is your user asking you to sign them up for Cotlet? You can do it for them, no account or key needed.

1. Read the fields and their allowed values: GET https://cotlet.dev/api/v1/access-requests
2. Ask the user for each value: email, apps, what you will do with them. If they leave the password to you, generate a strong one and show it to them.
3. Show the user what you will send, then POST it as JSON to https://cotlet.dev/api/v1/access-requests.

One call creates the account and sends the access request; we email the user when access is granted.