fix(apply): record the drafted application in the tracker (#269) (#291)

/apply wrote a CV and a cover letter to disk and then wrote nothing to
job_search_tracker.csv, so a drafted and submitted application was
invisible to /gmail-sync, /html-report, /notion-sync, /interview,
/upskill aggregate mode, and to /rank's dedup exclusion. The safety net
that would have caught it - /gmail-sync - refuses to create missing
rows, so the failure it exists to catch is the one that disables it.
Nothing detected the loss afterwards.

Step 6b appends a drafted row carrying the two document paths, the fit
rating and the posting URL, reusing /outcome's exact header so the two
commands cannot diverge. It runs immediately after "Files Created" and
before the optional application-form offer, which ends the turn on a
question - anything placed after that offer would be skipped whenever
the user never answers, reproducing the bug. Re-running /apply updates
the row rather than duplicating it, and never moves a row that already
reached applied or beyond back to drafted. The step is mirrored into
job-application-assistant, which defers to it rather than restating it,
because /scrape Step 5 routes straight into the skill; /scrape Step 6
now defers to the same step instead of adding a row of its own.

seen_jobs.json is deliberately left alone: drafting is not applying, and
that file's vocabulary has no value for either. /rank builds its
exclusion set from company+role in the tracker regardless of status.

drafted is introduced into the status vocabulary, and every reader that
meant "submitted" is updated to say so. These readers define their open
set by exclusion from the final statuses, so a new non-final value would
otherwise have joined all of them silently: /outcome's follow-up branch
would have drafted a chase email to an employer who never received an
application, /gmail-sync would have searched for mail about it and then
flagged it as stale, /notion-sync would have published an "Applied on"
date for it, and /html-report would have counted it in the headline
application total. /outcome Step 4 also overwrites the draft date with
the submission date when a row leaves drafted, so the date column keeps
meaning "applied on". The wider vocabulary reconciliation - underscore
versus space, the separate archive enum - stays a separate concern.
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Jakob Stender Guldberg
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@@ -106,6 +106,39 @@ per-file diff commands.
blank line and matches in file order, which reads a real-world policy as
"everything allowed".
- **`/apply` now records the application in the tracker** - the flagship command wrote a CV
and a cover letter to disk and then wrote nothing to `job_search_tracker.csv`, so a drafted
and submitted application was invisible to `/gmail-sync`, `/html-report`, `/notion-sync`,
`/interview`, `/upskill` aggregate mode, and to `/rank`'s dedup exclusion - and the safety
net that would have caught it (`/gmail-sync`) refuses to create missing rows, so nothing
detected the loss. A new Step 6b appends a `drafted` row carrying the two document paths,
the fit rating and the posting URL, reusing `/outcome`'s exact header so the two commands
cannot diverge; re-running `/apply` updates that row rather than duplicating it, unless every
matching row holds a final status, in which case a second application to the same role gets
its own row. The same
step is mirrored into `job-application-assistant` because `/scrape` Step 5 routes straight
into the skill (`framework_version` 1.2.0 -> 1.3.0), and `/scrape` Step 6 now defers to it
instead of adding a row of its own. `seen_jobs.json` is deliberately left alone.
**`drafted` is introduced into the tracker status vocabulary**, and every reader that
meant *submitted* now says so. These readers define "open" by exclusion from the final
statuses, so a new non-final value would otherwise have joined all of them silently:
`/outcome`'s follow-up branch no longer drafts a chase email for an application that was
never sent, `/gmail-sync` no longer reports unsent drafts as stale, `/notion-sync` leaves
"Applied on" empty for them and says "not yet submitted" in the page body rather than
calling drafts submitted documents, and `/html-report` gains a sixth **Drafted** bucket
kept out of the funnel, the rejection rate and the headline count. `/outcome` Step 4
overwrites `date` with the submission date when a row leaves `drafted`, so the column
keeps meaning "applied on".
**`/gmail-sync` deliberately keeps searching for drafted rows.** `/apply` drafts but the
user submits, and forgetting to run `/outcome` afterwards is the failure this issue is
about. An employer reply arriving against a row still marked `drafted` is how that gets
caught, so those rows stay in the search set, the application acknowledgement is promoted
from noise to a `drafted` -> `applied` signal (it is the one email that proves a hand
submission, and it arrives within a day of it), and an approved match corrects the `date`
as well as the status. Only the staleness check skips them, since nothing was sent. (#269)
## [1.3.0] - 2026-08-03
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