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Gabriel Ignacio MensiandClaude Sonnet 5 6392ca1628 Add a Language Gate - no dimension currently checks language requirements (#275)
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>
2026-08-03 18:46:59 +02:00

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---
framework_version: 1.1.1
---
# Candidate Profile
<!-- SETUP: This file is populated by running /setup -->
<!-- After running /setup, all sections will be filled with your actual information -->
## Identity
- **Name:** [YOUR_NAME]
- **Location:** [YOUR_ADDRESS]
- **Phone:** [YOUR_PHONE]
- **Email:** [YOUR_EMAIL]
- **LinkedIn:** [YOUR_LINKEDIN_URL]
- **GitHub:** [YOUR_GITHUB_URL]
- **Status:** [YOUR_EMPLOYMENT_STATUS]
- **Constraints:** [YOUR_COMMUTE_OR_LOCATION_CONSTRAINTS]
### Languages
<!-- Every language you can work in professionally, with your honest level. Used by the
Language Gate in 04-job-evaluation.md and by job-scraper/search-queries.md's query-language
generation. Omit any language you don't actually work in - an undeclared language is treated as
a hard no, not a gap to smooth over. -->
| Language | Level | Notes |
|----------|-------|-------|
| [LANGUAGE] | [LEVEL, e.g. "Native" / "C2" / "B1/B2 (conversational)"] | [optional] |
## Education
| Degree | Period | Institution | Key Topics |
|--------|--------|-------------|------------|
| [DEGREE] | [YEARS] | [INSTITUTION] | [TOPICS] |
## Professional Experience
### [JOB_TITLE] - [COMPANY] ([START] - [END])
[LOCATION]
- [RESPONSIBILITY_OR_ACHIEVEMENT_1]
- [RESPONSIBILITY_OR_ACHIEVEMENT_2]
- [RESPONSIBILITY_OR_ACHIEVEMENT_3]
<!-- Add more roles as needed -->
## Independent Projects
<!-- Projects outside of employment: freelance, open source, personal -->
- **[PROJECT_NAME]**: [DESCRIPTION]
## Technical Skills
### Programming & ML
- **[LANGUAGE]** ([PROFICIENCY]): [FRAMEWORKS_AND_LIBRARIES]
- [OTHER_SKILLS]
### Domain Expertise
- [DOMAIN_1]
- [DOMAIN_2]
### Software & Tools
- [TOOL_LIST]
## Publications
<!-- List peer-reviewed publications, if any -->
1. [AUTHOR_LIST] ([YEAR]). [TITLE]. [JOURNAL]. [DOI_LINK]
## Awards
- [AWARD] - [EVENT] ([YEAR])
## References
- [NAME], [TITLE], [COMPANY] ([EMAIL], [PHONE])
More references available upon request.