* fix(cv-template): use ASCII hyphens and explicit ranges in CV date fields
LaTeX ligatures `--` into an en-dash (U+2013), so a `\cventry` date written
`2016--2024` reaches the PDF text layer as `2016<U+2013>2024`. Many ATS
parsers split date ranges only on an ASCII hyphen and therefore extract no
range at all. Separately, a bare single year gives the parser a start date
with no end.
Confirmed against a real Workday resume import: a CV built from this
template lost the end date of a short contract role and imported no
education entries whatsoever, forcing manual re-entry. The failure is
silent - extraction was otherwise clean, with literal contact details, no
(cid:) markers and correct reading order, so every existing check in the
ATS Parseability section passed.
- main_example.tex: date placeholders now use a single hyphen
- 05-cv-templates.md: document both causes, with examples, and add the
check to step 5d
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BFNdaj4fB6Xrd29PQ6hc9B
* chore(cv-template): bump framework_version to 1.4.0
The ATS date-format guidance added in the previous commit modifies a
framework template, which the CI framework version guard requires to be
accompanied by a version bump. Minor bump: new documented subsection,
no breaking change.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* docs(changelog): record the CV date-field hyphen fix and fork reconciliation
Documents the U+FFFD extraction failure under lualatex, the fix, and the
framework_version bump. Includes the fork reconciliation note requested in
review: the five changed lines in cv/main_example.tex are the \cventry date
fields every fork personalizes, so rebasing forks should expect conflicts
there, resolve in favour of their own dates, and reapply the -- to - change
by hand. Adds a grep to locate remaining instances and a pdftotext check to
verify.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Nothing in the framework checks a posting's language requirements
against what the candidate actually speaks. It is not one of the five
Scoring Dimensions in 04-job-evaluation.md, it is not checked in
/scrape's Step 3 fit assessment, and it is not a field in /rank's JSON
output - even though /apply's Step 1 already extracts a posting's
required language generically, with nowhere to report a mismatch to.
This adds a Language Gate, structured like the existing Eligibility
Gate (read the posting, classify against profile data, hard-stop on a
real mismatch), built on a new structured Languages table in CLAUDE.md
/ 01-candidate-profile.md. /setup now asks for it directly (Path C), or
infers it from a CV/LinkedIn export (Paths A/B - LinkedIn exports
already carry a self-rated Languages section).
The gate compares a posting's stated language requirements against
that table with three outcomes:
- Requires a language not declared at all -> hard FAIL, never
presented.
- Requires a higher level in a language that is declared (e.g. "fluent
English" against a declared B1/B2) -> FLAG, not an auto-reject -
scored and drafted normally, with the gap surfaced so the candidate
judges it themselves (a "fluent" bar reads very differently from a
strict employer vs. one that's flexible on it).
- Requires a language at or below the declared level -> clean PASS.
Wired through the three places that need it: /scrape (Step 3), /rank
(new language_gate/language_note fields alongside the existing
location veto - both are now persisted to seen_jobs.json, not just
used transiently to decide one run's shortlist), and /apply (Step 1's
language extraction now has somewhere to report to).
Out of scope, deliberately: this does not touch the free-form
Deal-breakers list or how it's used elsewhere (e.g. Scoring Dimension
4's relocation check) - that's a separate question this change takes
no position on.
Validated with two live-testing passes against real, unfetched
postings (not fabricated text) across 3 portals and 3 market languages
(Danish, German, Spanish/Argentina): 8/8 postings gated correctly in
the first pass, including ambiguous real-world wording ("you
communicate well in English") a rigid rule would have gotten wrong. A
second pass, run specifically to force a hard-FAIL case, found one
(a Danish posting requiring the ability to read Danish) and confirmed
it persists correctly and would be excluded from /rank's shortlist.
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Section 8 told users to 'git fetch upstream' but never showed how to add that remote, so forks that cloned from their own fork could not follow the steps. Spell out the one-time remote-add command (already printed by tools/check_upstream_updates.py) at the source.
GitHub serves repo paths case-insensitively, so a direct clone from https://github.com/madslorentzen/ai-job-search (lowercased) triggered the fork-vs-self warning even though origin is the template repo itself. Lowercase both sides of the check.
New test clones with a lowercased URL: fails on the previous check, passes with this fix.
* feat(upskill): aggregate mode ingests ranked jobs and their recorded gaps
/upskill's aggregate mode only read job_search_tracker.csv and guessed
required skills from the role/sector/notes columns, even though /rank
already fetches and scores postings that never make it into the tracker.
Aggregate mode now also reads ranked entries (rank_score >= 45, the
Moderate Fit floor) from job_scraper/seen_jobs.json, dedupes them against
tracker rows on case-insensitive company+role (reusing the match
tools/auto_mode_browser.py's _tracker_keys already implements), and
prefers a job's recorded gaps over an inferred skill list wherever both
exist. The heatmap's Gap Source column and report header now show the
recorded-vs-inferred / tracked-vs-ranked split.
Depends on #263. Discussed in #258.
* fix(upskill): cite only upstream precedent for the aggregate dedupe key
tools/auto_mode_browser.py's _tracker_keys does not exist upstream and
does not exist in this fork either, so the dedupe bullet in Step 3.1
of the upskill skill pointed at a phantom implementation. Drop that
reference and keep only the /notion-sync precedent, which is verified
present in upstream/master. Re-pin the pinned test assertion to the
surviving citation so the dangling reference can't silently return.
Addresses the CHANGES_REQUESTED review on #264.
Forks of public GitHub repositories are always public, so SETUP.md
section 8's 'your fork is private working space, so commit them' invited
exactly the personal-data exposure it seemed to rule out - the observed
failure mode behind several real forks that pushed filled-in profiles to
public master. Section 8 now states the fork-is-public fact plainly and
documents the safe alternative (private repo + template as upstream
remote), and /setup's completion summary carries a matching privacy note
at the exact moment profile data first lands in tracked files.
Also backfills the CHANGELOG entry for #265.
Prompted by rasstamann's discussion #266.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
On a fork without an 'upstream' remote, the checker silently fell back to 'origin' (the fork itself) and still printed '[OK] All framework files are up to date with upstream!', a false positive: the fork is always up to date with itself, so upstream updates were never reported. This is exactly the setup CONTRIBUTING.md recommends for forks.
Now, when the fallback remote does not point at the ai-job-search template repo, the script warns that the comparison is fork-vs-self and prints the command to add the template as a remote. The final OK line now names the ref it actually compared against.
Tests (new tests/test_check_upstream_updates.py, three scenarios) fail on master and pass with the fix.
/rank's Step 2 scoring agents already return strengths and gaps per job,
but Step 4 only persisted rank_score/rank_verdict/rank_date - both arrays
were printed once in Step 5 and then discarded. Store them verbatim in
seen_jobs.json (replaced, not accumulated, on --all re-ranks) so downstream
consumers can read real triage findings instead of re-deriving them.
Discussed in #258.
Two personal-data ignore rules existed in .gitignore but not in
REQUIRED_IGNORE_RULES, so a change weakening either would have passed CI:
cover_letters/Cover_*.* (the uppercase naming variant /apply recognizes)
and cv/*.txt (ATS text extractions of tailored CVs).
Also: regression tests pinning #252's ragged-row bounds fix in
convert_salary_excel.py (mutation-verified), and removal of the vestigial
cover_letters/OpenFonts/cover.cls, which since #252's rename ambiguously
declared the same class as the real cover.cls (zero references; cover
letter re-compiled and page-verified after removal).
Guard-list gap surfaced by CodeRabbit's review on jakob1379's Nix demo
fork PR (jakob1379/ai-job-search#1).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The list omitted security_guards.py and the exact unittest invocation;
the one recent contributor CI failure fitting #262's description (#238)
failed on precisely the omitted script. Reported by @jakob1379.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Backfills the release span since v1.0.0 (16 commits): the Typst
personal-data gitignore fix and live dependency review under a
Security & privacy heading, plus the added features and fixes that
had no Unreleased entries.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The job was gated with `github.repository == 'MadsLorentzen/ai-job-search'`
on top of the pull_request check, so it never ran on any fork -
including every adaptation listed in the community fork-index
discussion. The job already probes Dependency graph availability and
gracefully warns-and-passes when the graph isn't enabled, so the
repository-name gate wasn't protecting against a real failure mode -
it was just silently skipping vulnerability scanning everywhere except
this one repo. Removing it lets any fork with Dependency graph enabled
get real coverage, and costs nothing on repos where it isn't (the
existing probe already handles that gracefully).
Prompted by the extension-system question in discussion #249: the three
extension points existed as folklore across #78, /add-portal, and closed
PRs. Now stated plainly, with a read-the-code-first checklist for
borrowing portal skills and the rationale for why there is no installer.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The skill queried /api/v1/jobs/search, whose `description` is the search
index's truncated preview — and the CLI dropped it entirely, so a result
carried only title/company/location/date/url. Reading a posting therefore
meant a `detail` call per hit, which is exactly what job-scraper's Step 2
prescribes: "fetch full detail with that portal's `detail` command".
freehire exposes a search endpoint for programmatic consumers,
/api/v1/agent/jobs/search: same query, ranking, facets and pagination, but
asked to (`include_description=true`) it replaces the preview with the
posting's full description read from the database, rendered as
`description_format=markdown|text|html`. Reproduce the difference:
curl -s "https://freehire.me/api/v1/jobs/search?q=golang&limit=1" \
| jq -r '.data[0].description | length' # preview, capped
curl -s "https://freehire.me/api/v1/agent/jobs/search?q=golang&limit=1\
&include_description=true&description_format=markdown" \
| jq -r '.data[0].description | length' # full text
So `search` now calls that endpoint, always asking for full descriptions,
and each JSON result carries `description` verbatim — no client-side HTML
stripping, since the API already rendered it. Markdown is the default
because it preserves the headings and requirement lists /rank reasons over;
`--description-format text|html` selects the others. The flag is validated
client-side: the API answers an unrecognized format with raw HTML rather
than an error, so a typo would silently change the output instead of
failing.
`table` and `plain` stay description-free — a full posting body would swamp
a scannable list — and `detail` is untouched, for looking one posting up by
slug (including a closed one, absent from search).
One behaviour change beyond the endpoint: a 404 from the search path used
to be folded into an empty result set. On the agent endpoint a 404 means
the instance predates it — a self-hosted freehire behind FREEHIRE_API_URL —
so it is now reported as an error naming the path, instead of a plausible
"no results" that hides the misconfiguration.
Tests cover the requested URL and params, verbatim (unstripped) markdown,
the null-when-absent case, the 404-is-an-error contract, and the flag
validation. All network-free.
* test(cli): pin the 429/5xx retry contract in all six portal CLIs
The portal-skill contract requires backoff on 429/5xx, and every CLI
implements it - a retry loop with exponential delay and jitter - but
nothing verified the loops actually retry, stop retrying on plain
4xx, or give up after the documented attempt budget. A regression
here is invisible: a CLI that stops retrying still works on every
healthy request.
Each CLI gains tests/retry-backoff.test.ts, network-free, using the
request-timeout.test.ts pattern from #197 (import the fetch wrapper,
stub globalThis.fetch): a stubbed fetch counts attempts, and a
stubbed setTimeout fires immediately so the exhaustion case does not
sleep through the real 500ms -> 5s/8s backoff schedule (tests run in
milliseconds, not ~17s).
Three assertions per fetch wrapper, adapted to each CLI's documented
semantics:
- a 429 is retried and the next attempt's result is returned
- a plain 4xx is not retried (jobbank's fetchWithUA RETURNS the
response for callers to handle - pinned as such; linkedin's
htmlFetch returns "" on 404; freehire's apiGet returns null)
- persistent 5xx gives up after the initial attempt plus six
retries (7 fetch calls) with the status in the error
freehire additionally pins its documented graceful-degradation
contract: a connection failure fails fast with no retry. jobdanmark
exercises both apiFetch and apiPost, which carry separate copies of
the loop that could drift apart.
Mutation-checked: changing maxRetries in jobindex makes the
exhaustion test fail, so the tests distinguish the current behavior
from a silently altered one.
Verified: bun test green in all six CLIs (jobindex 19, jobnet 20,
jobbank 20, jobdanmark 21, linkedin 21, freehire 31 - 0 fail);
tsc --noEmit clean in all six; python3 tools/lint_skills.py OK.
* test(jobindex): pin apiFetch's retry loop alongside htmlFetch's
Review parity gap: jobindex carries two separate copies of the retry
loop and only htmlFetch was exercised, so apiFetch's retry budget
could drift silently - the same situation jobdanmark's test already
handles for its apiFetch/apiPost pair.
apiFetch gets the same three assertions, adapted to its documented
semantics (JSON return on success, throw on plain 4xx): a 429 is
retried and the next attempt's parsed body returned, a 400 is not
retried, persistent 5xx gives up after the initial attempt plus six
retries (7 calls).
Mutation-checked on the new axis: changing apiFetch's maxRetries
(the file's first copy of the loop) fails its exhaustion test while
htmlFetch's tests stay green, so each wrapper is now pinned
independently.
Verified: bun test 30 pass / 0 fail (full jobindex suite);
tsc --noEmit clean.
* feat(add-template): make /add-template engine-agnostic so Typst can register alongside LaTeX
/add-template hardcoded a lualatex|xelatex|pdflatex engine enum and .tex
assumptions, so custom templates could only be LaTeX. Replace the enum with a
declared source extension + compile command, so any toolchain (Typst via
`typst compile`, or others) registers the same way stock LaTeX templates did.
Stock CV/cover-letter pipeline stays LaTeX and untouched (per #181).
Also fixes a latent bug this surfaced: apply.md's compile step ignored the
ACTIVE-TEMPLATE block and always ran lualatex/xelatex on .tex regardless of
the active template, and .gitignore's cv/main_*.tex pattern would not have
ignored a non-.tex draft (personal-data leak). Both now resolve from the
declared extension/command.
* fix(add-template): satisfy security_guards on the .gitignore Typst fix
security_guards.py pins the personal-data ignore rules by exact string and
gates negations through an allowlist, so broadening cv/main_*.tex and
cover_letters/cover_*.tex to *.* (for .typ drafts) needed a matching update
to REQUIRED_IGNORE_RULES.
Also tighten the .gitignore itself per review: keep the re-include
negations at .tex instead of widening them to *.* too. The stock example
files are always LaTeX, so .tex is enough to re-include them, and a
wildcard negation would have also re-included build artifacts
(main_example.pdf/.aux) that should stay ignored. ALLOWED_IGNORE_NEGATIONS
needs no change since the negations are unchanged.
Also adds a CHANGELOG entry under Unreleased for the Typst/custom-template
support.
* feat(08): add application-form fields as a third /apply artifact
/apply produces a CV and a cover letter. Many applications need a third
thing: free-text typed into a portal. Graduate programs, large-employer
ATS systems and startup forms ask for self-introductions, structured
project entries, motivation questions and pitches under a hard character
limit - none of which either document covers, and all of which the
interviewer reads alongside the CV.
Governing rule: a form field selects from what is already true and
arranges it for the question asked. It never introduces a new claim.
All accuracy rules from 03 and 05 apply unchanged.
Covers three field types (self-introduction, structured project entries,
hard character limits), the output format (a plain .txt the candidate
pastes from, with counts stated and internal NOTE TO SELF blocks marked
as not-for-pasting), and a verification checklist.
Two places where form fields are stricter than a CV, because both are
easy to get wrong:
- Project entries carry a name and a role, so they read as ownership of
the whole project in a way a terse CV bullet does not. Contributory
work has to be scoped inside the description.
- Project dates are the dates of the project, not of the employment.
Narrowing them is more accurate where the candidate can say when the
project started - but never invent a boundary to improve the ratio.
Registers the file in SKILL.md (framework_version 1.0.1 -> 1.1.0) and in
the FRAMEWORK_FILES list in tools/check_upstream_updates.py, so it is
covered by the update check like every other framework file.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fixup(08,apply): wire as optional /apply offer; align grounding to three-source union
- apply.md Step 6: offer the third artifact after CV/cover letter are
produced, mirroring the /outcome house pattern for optional capabilities
(offer, act only on yes, default output unchanged).
- 08-application-forms.md: ground claims against the framework's
01-candidate-profile.md + master CV + CLAUDE.md union (per #185)
instead of only 01, in both the governing rule and the checklist.
Per MadsLorentzen review on PR #212. Rebase onto merged #210 (the
tenure-check reference this file cites) still pending — #210 hasn't
landed on upstream/master yet.
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* feat(apply,interview): write confirmed facts back to the profile in the same turn
The grounding audit added in #185 removes any claim the three sources do
not support. That is right, and it has a consequence the framework did
not close: the audit cannot tell a fabrication from a real fact the user
stated out loud in an earlier session. Both look identical to it - absent
from the sources - and both get stripped.
So a fact that surfaces in conversation and is never written down is lost
silently. A real metric the user confirmed disappears from every
subsequent CV, and nothing reports that it happened.
Adds a standing rule to /apply: when the user confirms, corrects or
supplies a fact not already in 01-candidate-profile.md, write it there in
the same turn and bump framework_version. 01 is one of the audit's three
sources, so the fact is grounded on the next run.
Adds the same exception to /interview rule 5, which previously forbade
touching profile files outright. Interview prep is where new facts
surface most often - a recalled metric, a corrected scope, a filled-in
STAR stub - and prep files are not a substitute for the profile.
Notes the source-consistency case explicitly: a fact added to 01 that
CLAUDE.md and the master CV do not mention is an absence, not a
contradiction, so it does not trip the audit's profile-consistency
warning. If the new fact corrects either of those, fix it there too.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fixup(apply,interview): drop framework_version bump from write-back rule
Bumping 01's framework_version on a personal fact write-back corrupts
check_upstream_updates.py's upstream_version > local_version signal, and
diverges from /setup and /expand precedent where version tracks the
file's structure, not personal-data edits to its content.
Per MadsLorentzen review on PR #211.
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Two profile-accuracy rules for the CV guide.
**In-progress qualifications.** A bare year range is not enough: an entry
reading 2025-2026, seen partway through 2026, reads as a finished degree,
because a skimming reader treats a closed range as closed. A profile
statement saying "currently completing" does not fix it - the education
entry is where a reader checks the credential, so it has to stand alone.
Claiming a credential not yet held is discovered at transcript or
reference check rather than at interview, and it costs nothing to
prevent. Adds the LaTeX form and a check that the profile statement,
education entry and any availability note agree on one completion date.
**Tenure against visible output.** A two-year role represented by a
single project reads as low output whether or not that is fair; the
reader cannot know what filled the time, so they guess. Hits career
changers, long-cycle work (industrial, clinical, research) and anyone
kept on a single account. Three honest fixes in preference order -
surface more real work, make the phases within the role explicit, name
what made the cycle long - and an explicit prohibition on the two
dishonest ones: never pad with invented projects, never quietly shorten
employment dates. Both are discoverable and worse than the perception
problem. If the ratio survives the fixes the interview question is
coming, so the answer belongs in interview prep rather than improvised.
framework_version 1.2.0 -> 1.3.0.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
GitHub Sponsors profile for @MadsLorentzen is now live and accepting
sponsorships. Add it to FUNDING.yml so the repo's native "Sponsor this
project" box links to both GitHub Sponsors and Ko-fi, meeting developer
and non-developer supporters on whichever path is lowest-friction for
them. Ko-fi remains unchanged; the README Ko-fi block is untouched.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(rank): include job posting URL in shortlist/below-threshold/excluded tables
/rank's output tables listed title, company, and score but dropped the
posting link, forcing the user to go dig it out of seen_jobs.json to
open a job they wanted to act on. The key in seen_jobs.json is already
the URL, so this is a formatting fix, not a new lookup.
* fix(rank): link to entry's url field, not the seen_jobs.json key
Some portals key seen_jobs.json entries by a company+title composite
rather than the URL, so [Link](<key>) could render a broken link.
Every entry carries a dedicated url field, which is always valid.
An unmatched count column (e.g. a lone total headcount with no paired index
column) was appended as an untyped standalone value and stored under "index",
even though detect_column_type had already classified it as a count.
salary_lookup then rendered the raw headcount as a salary index with a
meaningless "vs baseline" percentage.
Tag unmatched count columns with field="count" so the row parser stores them
under "count" (as an int, matching the paired-count branch). Standalone index
and untyped columns are unaffected.
freehire moved its primary domain from freehire.dev to freehire.me. Update the
freehire-search skill's default API base URL, help text, docs, and examples.
Backward-compatible: FREEHIRE_API_URL still overrides the base (self-hosting),
and normalizeSlug is host-agnostic so pasted freehire.dev/jobs/<slug> URLs still
resolve. The GitHub repo link (github.com/strelov1/freehire) is unchanged. All
27 CLI tests pass; the freehire.me API answers 200 for /jobs/search + /jobs/facets.
* feat(job-scraper): flag mass-posting and recycled-listing patterns
Adds Step 2.5 to detect two distribution patterns that are worth
surfacing to the user as a caution signal, not an accusation:
- Mass-posting: the same (or near-identical) listing posted across
many cities/locations at once, consolidated into one row instead of
presented as separate duplicate results.
- Recycled listing: a new candidate whose description closely matches
an older seen_jobs.json entry from the same company, but under a
different title.
Neither pattern is treated as proof of anything - fit is never
downgraded and results are never excluded because of it, the point is
giving the user the signal so they can decide. Explicitly scoped away
from naming companies as fraudulent (see the new Important Rules #8):
this documents a detectable behavior pattern, not a blacklist.
Motivated by real signal seen today: the same req ID posted across 6
different LATAM cities, and a single-city listing duplicated 3x under
slightly different titles.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Fix non-executable Pattern B: add snippet field, move check to Step 4
Pattern B instructed comparing a new posting's description against
existing seen_jobs.json entries, but the Step 4 schema never stored
descriptions - nothing existed to compare against, so the check
couldn't run as written.
- Adds an additive `snippet` field to the seen_jobs.json schema
(same move as #193's `portal` field), populated when each entry is
written.
- Moves the recycled-listing check itself to Step 4, where the write
happens, leaving Step 2.5 as the in-run mass-posting check only.
- Makes the snippet match the actual discriminator, not company +
different title alone - that alone would false-flag every company
that legitimately runs several concurrent open roles, which is
exactly what Rule 9's "signal, not accusation" framing is trying to
avoid.
- Updates the Step 5 / Important Rules cross-references accordingly.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Trim to within-run mass-posting detection only
Drop the cross-run recycled-listing check (Step 4) and the snippet
field it depended on, per review: no evidence the pattern recurs
often enough to justify persisting a description snippet on every
seen_jobs.json entry permanently. Step 2.5's in-run mass-posting
consolidation is cheap and stays.
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The sequential scan assumed count/index pairs are always adjacent.
Interleaved columns like Count_A, Count_B, Index_A, Index_B produced
wrong pairings (Count_B ↔ Index_A), silently corrupting data.
Now columns are grouped by type, then matched by the category name
derived from stripping type words. Unmatched columns fall back to
standalone value columns using the original header name.
CI runs `bun install` (not --frozen-lockfile) and the CLIs' package.json
pinned @types/bun, @bunli/core, and @bunli/utils to "latest", so each fresh
install could resolve a different version than the lockfile. When a "latest"
bun-types resolved that didn't satisfy the tsconfig (lib: ["ESNext"] with no
DOM, types: ["bun-types"] as the only source of Response/URL/fetch globals),
`bun run typecheck` failed across every .ts file - a transient red on PRs that
never touched TypeScript (observed on #207, which changes only SKILL.md).
Pin the three previously-floating dev/framework deps to the versions the
lockfiles already resolve, so behavior is unchanged and the drift class is
gone:
- @types/bun: latest -> 1.3.14 (all 6 CLIs)
- @bunli/core: latest -> 0.9.1 (jobbank, jobdanmark, jobindex, jobnet)
- @bunli/utils: latest -> 0.6.0 (jobbank, jobdanmark, jobindex, jobnet)
The ^-ranged deps (node-html-parser, zod, typescript) are left as-is; they are
semver-guarded and were not the cause. No lockfiles committed (bun.lock stays
gitignored per existing policy). Verified: all 6 CLIs install and `bun run
typecheck` clean with the pins.
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Addresses #213 (how to keep up with a fast-moving upstream) and closes the
verification loophole surfaced in the 2026-07-22 triage audit.
- Add CHANGELOG.md (Keep a Changelog + semver), with v1.0.0 as the first
tagged baseline and an Unreleased section for going forward.
- SETUP.md section 8: recommend updating to a tagged release (a vetted,
described checkpoint) over pulling raw master; fetch --tags and merge a tag.
- README: add a "Staying up to date" pointer to Releases, the CHANGELOG, and
check_upstream_updates.py.
- CONTRIBUTING.md: sharpen "Claims get verified" - a test that distinguishes
master from the fix is necessary but not sufficient; the failing input must
be one the workflow actually produces, not one the test hand-builds. Fixes
demonstrated only through a synthetic input the real code path never receives
get declined even when their test is green.
Note: the git tag / GitHub Release for v1.0.0 is intentionally left for the
maintainer to cut.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds a work-authorization eligibility dimension to 04-job-evaluation.md: whether the candidate is legally permitted to hold the role (citizenship/PR/visa requirements) as a hard filter, distinct from permit-timing. Country-agnostic, quotes the requirement source verbatim, treats silence as not-permission, and surfaces to the user rather than silently dropping. framework_version bumped 1.0.0 -> 1.1.0.
By @LeoWinston-9596 (split from #199). Note: the referenced /setup 'second gate' permit-timing collection isn't wired yet - a natural follow-up.
The jobdanmark detail parser flagged a soft-404 by testing whether the page title contained the substring '404' anywhere, so a legitimate posting titled e.g. 'Room 404 Cleaner' was wrongly rejected as NOT_FOUND. Narrows title matching to startsWith('404') plus specific error phrases ('page not found', Danish 'siden blev ikke fundet'), keeping the existing body-text backstop. Verified: strictly reduces false-positives, the real 404-page title ('404 | Jobdanmark') still detected, tests pass network-free.
By @oscarbol09.
The jobindex and linkedin detail parsers matched description containers with a non-greedy regex that stops at the first inner </div>, so any posting whose description contains nested divs was silently truncated (jobindex dropped later sections; linkedin dropped everything after the first block). Replaces the regex with a depth-tracked extractDivContent scanner that walks div open/close markers to the matching close. Verified: truncation bug reproduced against real markup fixtures, depth arithmetic correct (no off-by-one/infinite-loop), 28 tests pass network-free, no regression on non-nested divs. Malformed-HTML over-grabs rather than truncates - the safer failure, cleaned by downstream stripTags/decode.
By @oscarbol09.
job_scraper/seen_jobs.json (and notion_sync.json / *.md) were ignored by a repo-rooted pattern, but the job-scraper skill resolves job_scraper/ relative to its own directory, so the state file lands at .claude/skills/job-scraper/job_scraper/ and the rule never matched - publishing every scraped posting with fit scores and skip-reasons on a public fork. Switches to **/-prefixed patterns that match at any depth (the rooted location still matches too, so no regression), and adds documents/interview/** (interview prep names employers, quotes submitted material, and lists the candidate's weak points) - it was never ignored though documents/applications/** was. REQUIRED_IGNORE_RULES updated in lockstep so the security guard stays in sync.
By @LeoWinston-9596 (split from #199). Verified: both nested and root seen_jobs.json now ignored, interview records ignored, guard suite green (17 tests incl. #195's negation checks). Rebased cleanly on current master.
The moderncv template's section headings (Core Competencies, Professional Experience, Education, Languages, Publications, Honors and Awards, References) and the References boilerplate line are literal English text the workflow never translates, so a CV localized in prose can sit under English scaffolding. Adds an illustrative, fork-aware rule to 05-cv-templates.md (translate the headings too, whatever your template defines) plus a verification-checklist item in CLAUDE.md. Ties into the CV-language profile setting from #179.
By @Lautaro073. Heading list corrected against the stock template on review (Publications/Honors and Awards in, non-existent Independent Projects out; made illustrative for forks).
The freehire and linkedin CLIs called main().then(code => process.exit(code)) with no .catch(). If main() throws or returns a rejected promise, the .then() never runs, process.exit() is never called, and the runtime terminates with exit code 0 - a runtime failure becomes indistinguishable from success (and would suppress the Step 1c WebSearch fallback, which keys on non-zero exit). Adds a .catch() that writes the same JSON error shape the rest of each file already uses ({error, code: INTERNAL_ERROR} to stderr) and exits 1. Scoped to the two self-contained CLIs only; the bunli portals catch internally via defineCommand.
By @oscarbol09.
Adds Step 4.75 to /scrape: detects the failure mode where a portal changes markup and its parser exits 0 with zero or garbled results (invisible to the Step 1c fallback, which only fires on non-zero exit). Free pass over this run's results (degraded scan) plus seen_jobs.json yield history; bounded escalation on suspicion only (the portal's own SKILL.md test query, one broader retry, rate-limit never treated as evidence); health: lines in the Step 5 summary with a confirmation-gated enabled:false quarantine offer; healthy portals stay silent. Adds a /scrape health [portal] probe-only mode. Persists a portal field in seen_jobs.json additively (per the /rank precedent), with read-time URL-domain attribution for pre-field entries so no migration is needed.
Folded into /scrape rather than a standalone /doctor command - the detection lives where the evidence (run results + yield history) already is, and a routine command catches rot a user would otherwise notice weeks late. By @ayobamiseun.
Adds Step 2b to /outcome: surfaces open applications gone quiet (default 10 days), drafts a brief channel-appropriate follow-up in the candidate's voice using only claims from the already-submitted materials, and logs it (followed up marker in notes + followup_YYYY-MM-DD.md in the archive). Reachable from the no-arg pipeline table (now showing days-quiet and follow-ups-sent) and via /outcome followup [N|company]. Draft-only never send, capped at two follow-ups terminating into Step 2's existing no_response path, and a thank-you note offered the moment Step 3 records a completed interview stage. Reads the contact_person column nothing previously consumed.
Folded into /outcome rather than a standalone command - dependency-free (unlike /gmail-sync) and reusing detection, the archive, the notes ledger, and the resolution path already there. The invited return of #46 (closed stale, not on merit). Guardrail tests mirror the /notion-sync pattern; 10-vs-30-day threshold contrast with /gmail-sync documented and test-pinned.
By @ayobamiseun.
convert_salary_excel.py detected the city column via exact membership (h_lower in CITY_PATTERNS), so real headers like "City Name", "City/Kommune", or "Kommune <suffix>" never matched and every company was written with an empty city field. Switches to header_matches(h, CITY_PATTERNS) - the same whole-token matcher already used for the company, count, index, and ID columns. Same bug class as #151 (company column); bare "City"/"Kommune" inputs are unaffected. Regression test covers bare and suffixed headers.
By @oscarbol09.
None of the board CLIs set a fetch timeout, and the retry loops react only to HTTP status codes, not to a connection that is accepted then never responds (black-holed TCP, hung TLS, stalled proxy) - so await fetch(...) never settles and the command hangs with no output and no exit. freehire's helper even documented a fast-degrade contract its try/catch didn't deliver on a mid-flight stall. Adds signal: AbortSignal.timeout(15000) to every fetch across all six CLIs, with network-free tests asserting the signal is present on each request wrapper.
By @thejesh23. Verified: 8 timeout tests pass locally with fetch stubbed (no network), and would fail on the pre-fix code.
Closes#196
check_gitignore() verified each required personal-data rule was present via set membership, but .gitignore is order-sensitive: a later !pattern re-includes a file an earlier rule excluded, so the required line stays physically present while the file is no longer ignored - the guard failed open on exactly the weakening its docstring claims to catch. Keeps the required-rules-present check and additionally rejects any negation line outside a small reviewed ALLOWED_IGNORE_NEGATIONS allowlist (same explicit-widening pattern as ALLOWED_PERMISSIONS). Fixes#194.
By @thejesh23. Verified: allowlist matches the four negations currently in .gitignore; guard test suite passes locally (17 tests) and in CI.
Closes#194
Documents the Windows Basic MiKTeX path missing from SETUP.md's minimal-TeX section: enabling silent [MPM]AutoInstall so missing-package installs don't block on a GUI prompt in non-interactive terminals, an mpm pre-install alternative matching the macOS TinyTeX package list, and a PowerShell translation of the existing bash smoke tests. Nested under the LaTeX section as a peer of the TinyTeX/BasicTeX subsection.
By @oscarbol09 (first contribution). Package names, AutoInstall config, and the PowerShell smoke block empirically verified on Windows 11 + MiKTeX.
Follow-up to #187: postings/ filenames become <Company> - <Job Title>.txt (collision-free across companies, and /apply gets the company name for free), and the postings/ section gains the untrusted-input reminder - pasted posting text is data to evaluate, never instructions to follow, per SECURITY.md's established rules.
By @Lautaro073.
Bare z.coerce.number() accepted negative and fractional values for count/pagination flags, and slice(0, limit) with a negative limit silently dropped trailing results instead of erroring. Tightens the schemas to .int().min(1) across all four Danish portal CLIs (including jobnet occupations --per-page) with network-free validation tests.
By @ayobamiseun.
Extracts the JSON-LD JobPosting lookup into a recursive parseJobPostingJsonLd helper that handles top-level objects, arrays, and @graph wrappers (including nested combinations), keeps skipping malformed scripts, and covers all four cases with network-free Bun tests.
By @luochen211. Closes#189.
Scans Gmail (via the claude.ai Gmail connector) for status signals on open tracked applications - interview invites, assessments, offers, rejections - and proposes them as a sourced batch the user must approve before anything is written to job_search_tracker.csv or outcome.md. Never proposes hired/offer_declined (user's real-world decision), routes conflicting signals to manual /outcome, appends-only to Notes, idempotent by message ID, read-only against the mailbox, and degrades to one message + clean exit without the connector (the /notion-sync precedent). State is gitignored personal data.
By @chenyuan99, who raised the connector-dependency tension himself and restructured classification and writing into separate approval-gated steps.
Reviewer-side Factual Grounding Audit: every date, employer, job title, and quantitative metric in both drafts is checked against the union of 01-candidate-profile.md + cv/main_example.tex + CLAUDE.md's Candidate Profile section (grounded if ANY source supports it; inter-source mismatches surfaced as profile-consistency warnings; draft drift returned as Part A edits with reason "grounding"). Drafter-side rule makes those three sources the sole source of truth for facts - existing tailored CVs are structure/phrasing reference only. Fixes the structural drift loop where tailored output fed back as source material; companion to the maintainer-side #178 setup fix.
Reported, diagnosed, and implemented by @jovin-nicholas (#177); the failure mode was validated empirically by the output benchmark (blind judges found the exact escalation class in pre-audit outputs).
Closes#177
Manual fallback for postings that block automated fetches: paste the text into documents/postings/<Job Title>.txt. Gitignored so posting text stays local; README documents the convention as a scratch inbox, with applications/<company>_<role>/job_posting.md remaining the archive.
