--- name: "hiring_mark_assessment" area: "hiring" title: "Mark written answers" price: "$0.01" method: "POST" url: "https://api.conecto.chat/v1/tools/hiring_mark_assessment" mcp_server: "https://api.conecto.chat/mcp/hiring" auth: "Authorization: Bearer " docs_url: "https://conecto.chat/tools/hiring/hiring_mark_assessment" --- # Mark written answers (`hiring_mark_assessment`) Gives points to the written answers of a completed test. Give points to the written answers of a completed test (0 up to each question's points). Price: $0.01 a call. A call that fails costs nothing. ## Use it when A completed test has written answers waiting for marks. ## Say this to your agent > Give Maria 4 of 5 points for her answer about the creak. ## Inputs | Name | Type | Required | Description | Allowed values | Default | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | `applicant_id` | integer | yes | At least 1. | | | | `assessment` | string | yes | The test (its slug from hiring_list_assessments). 1 to 80 characters. | | | | `marks` | array of objects | yes | [{"question": "q4", "points": 3}] (1 to 50 items) | | | ## Example Written for Halverson Cycle & Repair, a bike shop with a repair workshop in Portland, Oregon. MCP: call `hiring_mark_assessment` on the MCP server `https://api.conecto.chat/mcp/hiring` with these arguments: ```json { "applicant_id": 4101, "assessment": "workshop-basics", "marks": [ { "question": "q2", "points": 4 } ] } ``` REST: ```bash curl https://api.conecto.chat/v1/tools/hiring_mark_assessment \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $CONECTO_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"applicant_id": 4101, "assessment": "workshop-basics", "marks": [{"question": "q2", "points": 4}]}' ``` ## Response ```json { "call_id": "5f0c8a2e-3b7d-4c1e-9a64-2d8e1f7b0c93", "tool": "hiring_mark_assessment", "status": "succeeded", "replayed": false, "cost_usd": "$0.01", "balance_usd": "$19.75", "result": { "result": { "assessment": "workshop-basics", "title": "Workshop basics", "status": "completed", "sent_at": "2026-10-12T09:15:00+00:00", "link": null, "expires_at": null, "score": 5, "max_score": 6, "written_to_mark": 0, "questions": [ { "id": "q1", "type": "choice", "prompt": "A carbon seatpost clamp is marked 5 Nm. How do you tighten it?", "max_points": 1, "answer": "To 5 Nm with a torque wrench", "expected": [ "To 5 Nm with a torque wrench" ], "points": 1 }, { "id": "q2", "type": "long_text", "prompt": "A customer's bike creaks under load, but only some days. How would you find the cause?", "max_points": 5, "answer": "Ask when it happens, then rule out the cheap things in order: pedals and cleats, the saddle rails, the seatpost, then the bottom bracket. Grease and torque each one and test ride between steps.", "points": 4, "to_mark": false } ], "away_from_page": 0, "minutes_taken": 14.5, "completed_at": "2026-10-13T16:40:00+00:00" } } } ``` `result`: result: the test with its new score. ## Errors | Code | Status | When | Fix | |---|---|---|---| | `not_found` | 404 | No applicant of the business has that applicant_id. | Find them with hiring_list_applicants. | | `not_found` | 404 | No skills test has that slug. | Call hiring_list_assessments and use one of its slugs. | | `not_completed` | 409 | The applicant has not completed the test. | Wait for hiring.test_completed. | | `payment_required` | 402 | The test was completed while the balance could not pay its fee. | Top up; the result opens once its fee is paid. | | `invalid_input` | 400 | A mark names a question that is not a written answer, or has too many points. | Mark only written answers, from 0 to each question's points. | The refusals every tool can give (401 key, 402 balance, 429 limits) are on the errors page: https://conecto.chat/docs/errors.md ## Related - [hiring_setup_careers](https://conecto.chat/tools/hiring/hiring_setup_careers.md): Sets up the careers page at cncto.co/j/: its name, intro, website, reply-to address and who hears about applications. $0.001 a call. - [hiring_design_careers](https://conecto.chat/tools/hiring/hiring_design_careers.md): Gives the careers and job pages the business's own look: colours, a font, corners, a cover, a headline and its own CSS. $0.001 a call. - [hiring_create_job](https://conecto.chat/tools/hiring/hiring_create_job.md): Posts a job with its own page and application form on the careers page. $0.01 a call. - [hiring_update_job](https://conecto.chat/tools/hiring/hiring_update_job.md): Changes a job's details, its criteria and filter, or opens or closes it. $0.01 a call. - [hiring_list_jobs](https://conecto.chat/tools/hiring/hiring_list_jobs.md): The business's jobs with their status, page and applicants per stage. Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month. - [hiring_list_applicants](https://conecto.chat/tools/hiring/hiring_list_applicants.md): Applicants, newest or best match first: for one job or all, by stage, screening, risk, name or email, or the ones kept as spam. Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month. - [hiring_get_applicant](https://conecto.chat/tools/hiring/hiring_get_applicant.md): One application in full: answers, résumé link, screening and match score, the checks on who sent it, notes and history. Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month. - [hiring_screen_queue](https://conecto.chat/tools/hiring/hiring_screen_queue.md): The next applications nobody has screened, with the job's criteria and the résumé as text, blind by default. Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month. - [hiring_record_screening](https://conecto.chat/tools/hiring/hiring_record_screening.md): Saves a review of one application: strong, partial or weak, a summary, and each criterion with its evidence. $0.01 a call. - [hiring_mark_spam](https://conecto.chat/tools/hiring/hiring_mark_spam.md): Moves one application to spam or back, and can block the network and email domain it came from. $0.001 a call. - [hiring_get_blocklist](https://conecto.chat/tools/hiring/hiring_get_blocklist.md): The networks and email domains whose applications are kept as spam. Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month. - [hiring_update_blocklist](https://conecto.chat/tools/hiring/hiring_update_blocklist.md): Blocks or unblocks networks and email domains; what comes from them is kept as spam, with no fee and no emails. $0.001 a call. - [hiring_move_applicant](https://conecto.chat/tools/hiring/hiring_move_applicant.md): Moves an applicant to another stage of their job, with a note; the candidate is not told. $0.01 a call. - [hiring_hire_applicant](https://conecto.chat/tools/hiring/hiring_hire_applicant.md): Hires an applicant in one call: Hired in hiring, a person in HR with their résumé on file, and their onboarding checklist started. $0.25 a call. - [hiring_note](https://conecto.chat/tools/hiring/hiring_note.md): Adds a note to an applicant, rates them 1 to 5, or both. $0.01 a call. - [hiring_email_applicant](https://conecto.chat/tools/hiring/hiring_email_applicant.md): Emails an applicant in the business's name; replies go to the careers page's reply-to address. $0.02 a call. - [hiring_invite_to_interview](https://conecto.chat/tools/hiring/hiring_invite_to_interview.md): Emails an applicant a link to book an interview on one of the calendar's meeting types, and can move them to a stage. $0.05 a call. - [hiring_save_assessment](https://conecto.chat/tools/hiring/hiring_save_assessment.md): Writes a skills test or changes one: questions scored on their own, written answers to mark, a time limit and shuffling. $0.01 a call. - [hiring_list_assessments](https://conecto.chat/tools/hiring/hiring_list_assessments.md): The business's skills tests: title, questions, time limit, and how many were sent and completed. Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month. - [hiring_send_assessment](https://conecto.chat/tools/hiring/hiring_send_assessment.md): Emails an applicant their own link to a skills test. $0.02 a call. - [hiring_assessment_results](https://conecto.chat/tools/hiring/hiring_assessment_results.md): An applicant's tests: status, score, each answer against the expected one, answers to mark, time taken and how often they left the page. Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month. - [hiring_delete_assessment](https://conecto.chat/tools/hiring/hiring_delete_assessment.md): Deletes a skills test with every candidate's answers to it. Free. - [hiring_delete_applicant](https://conecto.chat/tools/hiring/hiring_delete_applicant.md): Deletes an applicant and their résumé for good. Free. - [hiring_dashboard_link](https://conecto.chat/tools/hiring/hiring_dashboard_link.md): A one-time link to hiring at a glance: each applicant's stage and next step, the tests and interviews waiting, and the open jobs. Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month.