Phase 5.4. Connects the career outputs a user already has to one job
application, without building a second copy of any of them.
The flow is strictly one-directional — CareerProfile -> CvVariant ->
application output — and nothing writes back up. No code path in this phase
touches CareerProfile or its children.
CV integration re-points rather than duplicates. GET/PUT /{id}/cv attaches one
variant to an application via CvVariant.JobApplicationId; replacing detaches the
previous variant instead of deleting it. Creating, duplicating, editing, theming,
previewing, exporting PDF and version history all stay in the existing CV
builder, which the section links into. There is no second CV system.
Tailoring composes the Phase 5.3 analysis and match into skills to highlight,
experience to prioritise, projects to emphasise, keywords to include and gaps to
address. Deterministic and advisory: it says what the user could emphasise and
the user edits the variant themselves. Nothing auto-applies.
Cover letters gain the history they were missing. JobApplication.CoverLetterText
stays the current text with its API contract unchanged; CoverLetterVersions
records what it used to be, so an AI rewrite is never destructive. Restore is
additive — the old text comes back as a new version, so what you restored from
still exists. Source and AiAction record whether the user wrote a version or
approved it from a suggestion, and an AI generation only becomes a version once
the user saves it.
Documents are untouched: the existing Attachment system already covers CV, cover
letter, certificates and portfolio files with a Purpose field, so the workspace
mounts that component rather than adding a second upload path.
CoverLetterVersions is the only new table — reconciler-owned, no-op migration,
guarded on JobApplications, and verified on a fresh MariaDB 11: int
AUTO_INCREMENT primary key, varchar(255) owner, datetime(6), composite index
inside the key limit.
360 backend tests, 115 frontend tests, type check, Release build and the
production build all pass locally.
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Phase 5.3. Three read-only reads that answer "how suitable is this job", "how
does my experience match", "what am I missing", "what happened previously".
Timeline (GET /{id}/timeline) is an interpretation layer over JobEvent, which
stays the source of historical truth. Each row gains a readable summary, a
category and a milestone flag; events group by day. Milestones are returned
unfiltered, because narrowing the detail must not hide what actually happened.
Job analysis (GET /{id}/analysis) extracts role, company, location, employment
type, seniority, salary, technologies, skills, responsibilities and keywords
from the advert, reusing the existing SkillTagger so the vocabulary matches the
job importer. It also reports what the advert does NOT say, which is usually the
more useful half.
Career matching (GET /{id}/match) feeds the master CareerProfile into the same
JobCvMatchService the CV builder uses, so one application scores identically
whichever surface asks. It returns the score, matched and missing skills, and
which experience and project entries are the evidence for each match.
All three are deterministic and own no data — no new table, no new column, and
nothing writes to the CareerProfile, a CvVariant, or the JobApplication. The AI
narrative stays where it already was, in AiWorkspaceService's job-analysis and
career-match modules, generated only when the user asks and versioned by the
append-only AiInteraction history. Opening a section costs nothing and changes
nothing.
Frontend adds Timeline, Analysis and Match sections to the workspace, sharing
one loader so loading, empty and error states are consistent. The deterministic
answer renders first, with the AI panel below it.
345 backend tests, 104 frontend tests, type check, production build all pass
locally.
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A completely empty MariaDB database could not start: the reconciler assumed
migration-owned tables already existed, and migrations assumed reconciler-owned
tables already existed. Neither could go first. Existing databases worked, so
only fresh installs were affected.
Startup is now an explicit sequence: connect, reconcile, migrate, reconcile,
start. The reconciler runs twice because neither position alone works — pass 1
repairs legacy schemas and creates the reconciler-owned tables that migrations
reference, pass 2 picks up everything that could not exist yet on a fresh
database. Every statement is existence-guarded, so the second pass is a no-op
scan on a correct database.
Untangled the overlapping ownership:
- RuleSettings is migration-owned. The reconciler also created it, which made a
clean install fail with "Table 'RuleSettings' already exists". It now only
seeds the default row, and only once the table exists.
- The six CareerProfile child tables are reconciler-owned. Their migration was
scaffolded against SQLite and indexed an unbounded longtext OwnerUserId, which
exceeds MariaDB's 3072-byte key limit; it is now a no-op and the reconciler
carries correct per-provider DDL. OwnerUserId and ItemKey are bounded to
varchar(255) in the model so the index fits.
- Reconciler tables that reference another table are guarded on their parent, so
pass 1 skips them on an empty database instead of failing on the foreign key.
- All index creation goes through one EnsureMySqlIndex helper, guarded on table
existence as well as index existence. This removes ten copies of the raw block
that crashed on a missing table.
- The DbContext-owned connection is no longer disposed by the reconciler, and
Open() is guarded on connection state, so the second pass can reuse it.
Verified against MariaDB 11 and SQLite: empty MariaDB (40 tables, starts),
restart on the populated database (idempotent, rows preserved), empty MariaDB
via the Docker image, fresh SQLite (42 tables), and an existing partially
migrated SQLite dev database (34 tables upgraded to 44 with all 13 applications
and 8 companies intact). 329 backend tests pass in Release.
Ownership rules, startup order, fresh install and production upgrade are
documented in docs/infrastructure/database-ownership.md.
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Run 531 (8f73548) changed a single markdown file: no application code, no test,
no dependency, no workflow file. Its test job failed at 1m18s, in the same
duration band as every run before and after it, including the two Phase 5
milestone commits.
A change that cannot affect compilation or test behaviour cannot cause a test
job to fail. That settles the question the investigation was asked: the cause is
outside the repository. The specific runner mechanism is still unidentified and
still needs the access already listed (job logs via a read-scoped token,
journalctl -u act_runner, runner container config).
Also records a separately discovered, pre-existing bug: booting against a
completely empty MariaDB fails because the MySQL reconciler assumes the
migration-owned tables exist. Reproduced on clean HEAD, unrelated to CI, and
harmless to prod, whose database is populated.
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Evolve the existing readiness workflow into one persisted, user-controlled
checklist rather than adding a second tracker.
ApplicationChecklistItem records only completion state and user intent. Each
default system item carries a stable SystemKey and an AutoSignal — the same
signal /readiness already computed — and re-syncs on every read: a satisfied
signal auto-completes the item, a reverted signal reopens it, and a manual tick
always wins. Users can add, reorder, dismiss and delete.
Readiness is refactored into a projection of the checklist (score = completion
percentage, completed/missing = live items by status). Its DTO shape and the
workflowSignal/reminders health view are unchanged, so no API contract breaks.
The workspace's next recommended action now comes from the first pending
checklist item in category priority order (preparation, submission, follow-up,
interview, custom), replacing the parallel ruleset — so the overview can never
recommend something already ticked off, and a user's own task can be next.
The table follows the established MariaDB-safe path: the scaffolded migration is
a no-op and the idempotent reconciler owns the DDL for both providers. Verified
on MariaDB 11 — auto_increment PK, varchar/datetime(6)/tinyint(1) columns, both
indexes inside the key limit, cascade delete, unique system key per application,
and NULL system keys not colliding for custom items.
329 backend tests, 94 frontend tests, type check, production build and both
Docker builds pass locally.
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Every JobApplication gets a dedicated workspace at /applications/{id} — a
surface, not a new data store. It owns no data and duplicates none: CV comes
from the Phase 4 CvVariant lens, analysis/match/interview from the existing
AiWorkspacePanel, documents from Attachments, communication from
Correspondence, activity from JobEvent, stage semantics from JobPipeline. No
career data is copied and nothing here writes.
- GET /api/jobapplications/{id}/workspace: one aggregate read (role, company,
stage, dates, attached CV variant, cover letter, documents, AI history,
recent activity) replacing the page fanning out across endpoints
- Next recommended action: ordered rules answering "what do I do next?", the
core product principle for this phase
- ApplicationWorkspacePage: left nav + linkable ?section=, reusing the existing
component for each domain; later-milestone sections say so rather than faking
- Entry point from the job dialog via an optional onOpenWorkspace callback —
the dialog must not depend on router context (it is mounted without a
<Router> in several suites), so the caller owns navigation
- 8 backend tests (aggregate, CV variant surfacing, counts, activity ordering,
next-step rules, tenant scoping)
Local: 314 backend, 88/88 frontend (31 suites), tsc clean, production build ok.
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Two post-reboot runs: the first reproduced the failure identically (smoke 1s
pass, suite 3s fail), the second failed earlier at `dotnet restore` in 0s — a
step that succeeded in 3-4s on every previous run, same commit, same runner.
That rules out stuck state (reboot changed nothing) and rules out a
deterministic sandbox policy such as seccomp/W^X blocking runtime IL emission,
which was the leading remaining hypothesis. Combined with host telemetry
showing no disk/memory/PID pressure, confidence in any specific mechanism drops
to ~25%; confidence that application code is not the cause stays high.
Removes the pure-vs-Moq diagnostic scaffolding (it never executed). No test
skipped or weakened.
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Server shows 62G free (71% used), inodes 14%, 16G /dev/shm (~32G RAM), ulimit
-u 127749, no cgroup pids.max, and no fail2ban installed. That falsifies both
resource-exhaustion hypotheses at the host level and the fail2ban explanation
for the deploy failure.
Notes the caveat that Gitea act_runner usually runs jobs inside a Docker
container, so host figures do not describe the environment the tests ran in
(separate cgroup limits, and a 64MB /dev/shm by Docker default).
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Moves the report to docs/infrastructure/runner-investigation.md with the
requested structure (evidence, experiments, hypothesis, confidence, required
infrastructure changes, why application code is no longer suspected).
Decisive new experiment: the suite was run from a clean `git archive HEAD`
tree — byte-identical to CI's checkout, without the gitignored runtime dirs
(jobtracker.db, keys/, CvArtifacts/, backups/) that earlier local runs had
silently included. 10/10 pass in 1s. That removes the last difference between
the local tree and the runner, eliminating application code (~95% confidence).
Also establishes, by route probe, that production is healthy but stale:
/api/public-cv/{unknown} returns 404 locally (route exists, AllowAnonymous) but
401 on prod, same as a nonsense path — PublicCvController is absent, so Phase 4
and Phase 5 have never deployed. Production therefore never ran the faulty
migration: no half-built tables exist there and no data cleanup is needed.
Deploy is a second, separate infrastructure failure: the first attempt reached
deploy.sh (37s, consistent with the MariaDB crash since fixed), every attempt
since dies at 3s at SSH connection time while the host serves traffic normally.
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Bisected the failure across four CI runs (job logs are not readable via the
Gitea API) down to the AiWorkspace test classes — 10 tests that pass on
Windows, in a clean Linux container, under a 1GB memory cap, in CI's exact
step order, with a custom-dir SDK and no DOTNET_ROOT, serially, and under a
hostile locale/timezone.
Ruled out: Linux behaviour, case sensitivity, path separators, locale/culture,
time zone, environment variables, parallel execution, test ordering, shared
state, memory. Not testable remotely: host permissions/limits.
Assessment is environmental: the workflow already documents three failure
modes on this same runner with an identical signature (processes dying with no
error output — SDK cache corruption, npm ci SIGSEGV, CRA build OOM/SIGSEGV).
Report includes evidence table and recommended infrastructure fix.
Removes the temporary bisection scaffolding; keeps the restore/build/test split
and the host smoke. No test was weakened, skipped, or filtered.
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ai-career-assistant.md (modules, prompt flow, provider abstraction, append-only
history model, extension points, security). Master guide + roadmap Phase 5
updated with the shipped workspace and the open provider-selection extension.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
cv-builder.md (variant model, rendering pipeline, API, builder workflow,
extension points, known deep-link limitation) + cv-theme-engine.md (how a
theme is data and how to add one). Roadmap Phase 4 marked foundation-shipped
with the remaining polish itemised.
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Phase 3 foundation: entities, relationships, ownership, source-of-truth, and
snapshot rules for the structured career profile. Relational children
(Experience/Education/Skill/Project/Certification/Language) under CareerProfile;
long tail as JSON; blob (ProfileCvStructureJson) becomes a derived projection for
legacy read paths; lazy non-destructive backfill.
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Add section 4a to docs/architecture/current.md: request flow, data ownership,
API responsibilities, and future extension points for the /profile vs /career
separation completed in Phase 2/2.2.
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Bring the four Career Workspace documents onto main as the target architecture
for Phases 2-4, and point MASTER_IMPLEMENTATION_GUIDE.md at them. Taken from the
branch tip (later commits refined them). Pure additions — none previously existed
on main.
- cv-builder-competitor-deep-research.md (Novoresume, Reactive Resume, FlowCV,
Teal, Enhancv, Canva, Resume.io, Kickresume; matrix; pricing intelligence).
- cv-builder-product-teardown.md
- career-workspace-product-strategy.md
- career-workspace-implementation-roadmap.md (F0-F5)
MASTER_IMPLEMENTATION_GUIDE.md v1.1: adds a Source-Of-Truth Documents section and
restates the "profile is the source of truth; documents reference snapshots" rule.
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Active docs/ was stub scaffolding while the real docs sat in docs/_archive/.
Restore and correct them, and record the Phase 0 work.
- docs/architecture/current.md: verified system map (from archived SYSTEM_OVERVIEW,
9 corrections against code).
- docs/research/competitors.md: sourced competitor analysis (from archived
PRODUCT_RESEARCH, feature matrix corrected).
- docs/decisions/ADR-002-job-application-model.md: the Job/JobApplication split.
- docs/application-discovery-report.md, docs/implementation-roadmap.md,
docs/phase-0-foundation-report.md, docs/career-workspace-branch-assessment.md.
- Remove 10 zero-byte placeholder files that advertised content that never existed.
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Resolve conflicts from main's Wave 0 (PR #1) landing after this branch was cut:
- useViewResource.ts: main's e352aae already fixes the render loop the same way
(load in a ref, dropped from deps) — took main's canonical version. My
independent fix is superseded (my branch predated e352aae, which is why the
loop reproduced live).
- JobApplicationsController.cs: keep BOTH main's IJobCvMatchService and my
AnalyticsService (ctor gets both optional params). GetAnalyticsOverview stays
delegated to AnalyticsService.
- Fold main's H3 additions into the extracted AnalyticsService: pipeline-driven
funnel (JobPipeline.Normalize/Stages) + time-in-stage (StageAnalytics) and add
StageDurationDto + TimeInStage to Models/AnalyticsDtos.cs, preserving the API
contract the frontend expects.
Build clean; backend suite 135/135 green.
useViewResource built `reload` with `load` in its useCallback deps, and the
fetch effect depended on `reload`. Callers routinely pass an inline `load`
closure (e.g. JobTable), so `load` — and therefore `reload` and the effect —
changed every render, calling setState and re-rendering: an unbounded
"Maximum update depth exceeded" loop that froze the renderer on /jobs and every
other list view (DashboardView, RemindersView, CompaniesTable).
Fix: hold `load` in a ref (like the existing hasLoadedRef) and drop it from the
dependency arrays. Re-fetching is still driven by `deps`/`enabled`; the ref
always points at the latest closure. No API/behaviour change for callers.
Runtime-verified live: /jobs went from a render storm (frozen renderer, 100s of
console errors) to 0 errors in a 2s window and a clean render. Suites that drive
JobTable→useViewResource pass in isolation; the remaining full-run flakiness is
pre-existing (state-pollution/timing in the heavy RTL suites, unrelated).
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The axios 401 interceptor calls clearAuthClientState() on every 401, which
dispatched "auth-changed"; the App handler re-fetched /auth/me, which 401'd
again → interceptor → clearAuthClientState() → "auth-changed" → ... an unbounded
request storm (observed live: 100+ GET /auth/me and climbing) that ran whenever
the user was logged out (login page, expired session) — burning CPU, network and
battery and flooding the server.
Fix: make clearAuthClientState idempotent — only emit "auth-changed" when it
actually removes a stored user key (a real signed-in→out transition), so
repeated 401s can no longer re-trigger the fetch.
Runtime-verified in a live stack: /auth/me went from 100+ & growing to 0 &
stable. login-page/settings tests green. Documented in
docs/performance/PERFORMANCE_IMPROVEMENTS.md (Phase 3.5 runtime finding).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Evidence-based investigation across every leak vector (timers, listeners, object
URLs, observers, websockets, static server collections, IMemoryCache, Python
caches). Verdict: no confirmed memory leak — the codebase has disciplined
cleanup. One resource-release correctness bug (over-eager blob-URL revocation in
the CV carousel) was found and fixed (eed9b1f).
Adds docs/performance/: MEMORY_LEAK_REPORT.md, ROOT_CAUSE_ANALYSIS.md,
PERFORMANCE_IMPROVEMENTS.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Phase 1-3 deliverables: full architecture/security/tech-debt map,
2026 market research with feature matrix, and tiered execution roadmap.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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