---
title: "POST /projects/{projectId}/agent-candidates/runs"
method: POST
path: "/projects/{projectId}/agent-candidates/runs"
---

# POST /projects/{projectId}/agent-candidates/runs

`POST /projects/{projectId}/agent-candidates/runs`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.caveman.so/api/v1`
- URL: `https://api.caveman.so/api/v1/projects/{projectId}/agent-candidates/runs`
- Auth: one of:
  - OAuth 2
    - Authorization code: `/api/v1/oauth/authorize`
    - Token URL: `/api/v1/oauth/token` scopes: `trace:read_metadata`
  - HTTP bearer
  - API key in cookie `cave_access`
  - API key in cookie `__Secure-cave_identity.session_token`

POST /api/v1/projects/{projectId}/agent-candidates/runs on the Caveman Cloud control plane. Requires the trace:read_metadata scope. Exposed to autonomous agents as the runs action of the caveman_candidates tool (read access). Read an improvement session's own practice runs and route tries: each scored commit with the fixed scorer's mark (kept or discarded), its cost ratio and per-task outcomes, and each route try's verdicts. With wait_seconds it waits for a pending one to settle. Only an improvement session's case token may read; a person reads the same on the case.

## Request body

- object
  - `wait_seconds` integer

## Response `2XX`

Successful response. Exact status depends on synchronous or durable delivery outcome.

## Other responses

- `4XX`: Structured failure. `error.code` is stable; `error.request_id` is echoed in the x-cave-request-id header.
- `5XX`: Structured failure. `error.code` is stable; `error.request_id` is echoed in the x-cave-request-id header.

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