Phase 5.5. Completes the lifecycle after submission: prepare, communicate, chase.
Interview preparation gets a durable, user-owned store. There were already two
per-application AI stores, InterviewPrepNote and AiWorkspaceNote, but both are
caches that regenerate when their context signature changes — anything a user
typed into them would eventually be overwritten. InterviewPrepItem is the side
nothing regenerates, covering company research, technical notes, behavioural
answers, STAR examples and the user's own questions in one table, because those
categories differ only by label and adding one must not need a migration. Each
item records whether the user wrote it or accepted a suggestion, and an
IsPrepared flag makes the section double as the preparation checklist.
Generation stays in the existing AiWorkspaceService "interview" module, appended
to AiInteraction as before. A suggestion is history until the user adds it as a
prep item; opening the section generates nothing.
Follow-up reuses what exists rather than adding a tracker. The date is
JobApplication.FollowUpAt, the same field RulesEngine and the reminder hosted
service already act on, so reminders keep working with no new wiring. The task
stays an ApplicationChecklistItem in the follow-up category — the section counts
open tasks without owning them. The record is a FollowUpSet JobEvent, the same
type the rest of the app emits.
Communication is untouched: Correspondence already owns recruiter contacts,
history and notes, and the workspace already mounted it.
The timeline interpreter learned five more types — InterviewScheduled,
InterviewCompleted and OfferReceived as milestones, FollowUpCreated and
FollowUpCompleted as routine, deliberately outside the milestone spine so it
stays a summary of what actually happened. JobEvent remains the history source.
InterviewPrepItems is reconciler-owned with a no-op migration, guarded on
JobApplications, and verified on a fresh MariaDB 11: int AUTO_INCREMENT primary
key, varchar owner and title, tinyint flag, datetime(6), composite index inside
the key limit.
371 backend tests, 128 frontend tests, Release build and the production build all
pass locally.
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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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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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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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Deploy failed on prod (MariaDB) while the test job was green: backend startup
threw during Database.Migrate(), so deploy.sh's post-deploy health check exited.
Root cause: AddCvVariants/AddAiInteractions were scaffolded against SQLite, so
they bake SQLite type names into their DDL — DateTimeOffset emits `TEXT`, bool/int
emit `INTEGER`, and the PK gets no AUTO_INCREMENT. Run against MariaDB that yields
a structurally wrong table, and the composite index over a TEXT column then trips
"ERROR 1071: Specified key was too long; max key length is 3072 bytes". SQLite
accepts all of it, which is why local/container verification passed.
Fix, following the pattern already used for CareerProfiles/AiWorkspaceNotes:
- both migrations become no-ops; the three tables are reconciler-owned
- reconciler provisions them idempotently per dialect (MySQL: varchar/int
AUTO_INCREMENT/datetime(6); SQLite: CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS)
- DropMalformedMySqlTable rebuilds a half-built table left by the failed
migration, guarded on row count so a table with ANY rows is never dropped
- bound the indexed string columns with HasMaxLength so the model matches
Verified against a real MariaDB 11 container: reproduced error 1071, then
confirmed the corrected DDL yields auto_increment PKs, varchar/datetime columns
and all previously-failing indexes. 306 backend tests green; SQLite container
starts clean.
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Recover the F1 Career Profile foundation + AI-workspace persistence from the
unmerged feature/career-workspace branch, so Phase 2 builds on the documented,
tested target state instead of re-deriving it. Foundation only — CV Builder
commits (variants, ATS badge, rewrite diff) stay deferred per "do not build CV
Builder yet". See docs/career-workspace-branch-assessment.md.
Squashed from 3 branch commits (235e291, 5916f09, 00a035e), resolved against
main + Phase 0:
- CareerProfile + CareerProfileVersion (append-only history), dual-written from
every profile save path via CareerProfileService. ApplicationUser.
ProfileCvStructureJson stays authoritative; the tables mirror it. Stable item
IDs assigned to jobs/education/certifications/projects (the prerequisite for
future variant lineage). CvDateNormalizer for free-text -> YYYY-MM.
- InterviewPrepNote + AiWorkspaceNote: cache AI interview prep / candidate fit /
focus plan keyed by an attachment-context signature, so they stop regenerating
(and re-spending the provider) on every open.
Conflict resolutions (union, favouring current code + Phase 0):
- JobTrackerContext / StartupInitializationExtensions: kept Phase 0's tables and
reconciler blocks, added the career/interview/ai-note tables (both SQLite and
MySQL dialects).
- ProfileCvController: dropped the branch's in-file DTO records (main defines them
in ProfileCvDtos.cs) and the LayoutFamily/AtsRating template fields (deferred
ATS-badge work), keeping main's 7-arg CvTemplateDescriptor.
- JobApplicationsController: kept the branch's cache-check, restored main's
AsNoTracking on the read-only user load.
Tables ship empty (verified dev); nothing to migrate.
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JWTs were previously fully stateless -- the token alone was the credential
until its own expiry, with no way to list or kill a session server-side. Add
a UserSession table alongside every JWT issued (AppSessionIssuer), embed its
id as a "sid" claim, and check that claim against the DB on every "local"
scheme request (Program.cs OnTokenValidated) so a session can actually be
revoked before its JWT naturally expires. New /api/auth/sessions endpoints
(list, revoke one, revoke-others) plus a Sessions card on the profile page.
Fails closed on a missing "sid" claim: every JWT issued going forward has
one, so a token without it is either pre-deploy (forces one re-login for
already-signed-in users at deploy time, same additive-forward cost the
2FA/trusted-device work on this branch already paid) or forged.
Adds a "trust this device" option to the 2FA challenge: on success, mints a
random token (only its SHA-256 hash is stored), sets it as a new httpOnly,
Secure, SameSite=Strict cookie, and records a TrustedDevice row. AuthController
checks that cookie for the exact signing-in user before gating on 2FA -- a
mismatched user, expired, or revoked device falls through to the normal 2FA
prompt, never errors. TwoFactorController also exposes list/revoke/revoke-all
endpoints for managing trusted devices, scoped to the owning user.
Schema added via the existing raw-SQL reconciler (SQLite + MySQL dialects),
not EF migrations, matching this repo's established pattern.
Adds three layers of account-security hardening, all gated behind the
existing SignInWithAppSessionAsync-equivalent (now AppSessionIssuer) so
every sign-in path -- local, Google, Microsoft -- goes through the same
lockout/2FA checks:
- Per-account lockout: Identity's built-in lockout store (columns already
provisioned, previously unused) is now wired up in AuthController.Login
via IsLockedOutAsync/AccessFailedAsync/ResetAccessFailedCountAsync, 5
failed attempts / 15 min, same generic 401 as wrong-password to avoid
enumeration.
- RFC 6238 TOTP 2FA (Otp.NET) with QR-code setup (QRCoder, fully local/
offline) on a new TwoFactorController: setup requires password
re-confirmation and returns a pending (unconfirmed) secret + QR; the
secret is only persisted as active once verify-setup checks a real
code. Secrets are encrypted at rest via the same IDataProtector pattern
already used for Gmail/Microsoft OAuth refresh tokens.
- Login/OAuth exchange now checks TwoFactorEnabled before issuing a real
session. If enabled, it hands back an opaque, server-side (IMemoryCache)
pending token via a new ITwoFactorPendingTokenService -- deliberately
NOT a JWT, so it can never be presented as a bearer token to bypass the
2FA check on any other endpoint. Only POST /api/auth/2fa/challenge can
redeem it, rate-limited at 5/5min (tighter than password login, since a
6-digit space is far more brute-forceable).
- One-time recovery codes (10 per enable/regenerate, SHA-256-hashed at
rest, shown once in plaintext) accepted in the same challenge endpoint
as an alternative to a TOTP code.
Schema: AspNetUsers gains TotpSecretEncrypted / TotpPendingSecretEncrypted
/ TotpEnabledAtUtc, plus a new TwoFactorRecoveryCodes table, added to both
the SQLite and MySQL dialect blocks in the startup schema reconciler.
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Prod was hard-down: InitializeJobTrackerAsync threw an unhandled
MySqlException ("Specified key was too long; max key length is 3072
bytes") while creating IX_JobApplications_OwnerUserId_FollowUpAt,
which crashed Program.Main before the app could start (surfaced to
users as a 500 on Google sign-in, but really affected every request).
Root cause: this reconciler assumes OwnerUserId is varchar(255), but
the live column was provisioned wider by an earlier EF migration,
close enough to the utf8mb4 3072-byte limit that pairing it with a
second column tips a composite index over.
Fix:
- Prefix-index OwnerUserId at 191 chars (safe under the legacy
767-byte-per-column limit, still far wider than the GUID-like
Identity ids actually stored) in every composite/unique index that
includes it, so index creation no longer depends on the column's
actual declared width.
- Wrap each CREATE INDEX in try/catch + LogWarning instead of letting
it propagate: a schema reconciler is best-effort and one failed
index must never crash startup, matching the existing non-fatal
pattern already used a few lines below for legacy-schema ownership
claims.
Backend build + full test suite (177 passing) verified green.
Wave 7. Mirrors the existing Google ID-token-exchange pattern (Program.cs
smart-scheme dispatch, JWT bearer scheme, AuthController exchange/link/
unlink endpoints, ApplicationUser fields, reconciler columns) for
Microsoft Entra ID + personal accounts via the multi-tenant "common"
endpoint.
Google/Microsoft sign-in previously only worked for accounts already
linked to an existing local user -- there was no way to actually sign
up via OAuth. Both exchange endpoints now create a new user when no
match is found and Auth:AllowRegistration is true, same gate as
email/password registration.
Frontend: new MicrosoftAuthCard (MSAL popup flow -- Microsoft has no
vanilla-JS equivalent to Google's Identity Services script) wired into
the login page's provider tabs and the profile page's account-linking
section. REACT_APP_MICROSOFT_CLIENT_ID env var, Auth:MicrosoftClientId
config gate on the backend.
Backlog item 1. The committed ModelSnapshot was empty/stale (21 lines, no
entities) -- `dotnet ef migrations add` scaffolded the whole database from
scratch against it, including the ASP.NET Identity tables, which have never
been created by a real EF migration in this repo (always provisioned via the
raw-SQL reconciler in StartupInitializationExtensions.cs -- see
EnsureIdentityTables' own comment). Applying that diff for real would throw
"table/column already exists" on every environment.
Fix: added migration 20260711181039_SyncModelSnapshot with an intentionally
empty Up()/Down() (see its doc comment) -- it only records itself in
__EFMigrationsHistory and regenerates the snapshot to match the live model,
so `dotnet ef migrations add` produces a real diff for the next schema
change instead of the whole database again. Verified zero side effects
against a copy of the dev DB (only inserts one history row) and against a
fresh empty DB (full migration + reconciler chain runs clean).
That fresh-DB verification surfaced a real, previously-undiscovered bug:
EnsureColumn/EnsureMySqlColumn calls for JobApplications/Correspondences/
Companies/Attachments ad-hoc columns all no-op on a truly fresh database
(the tables don't exist yet -- Migrate() creates them afterward), so a
brand-new deployment's first boot would be missing dozens of columns
(LastReminderEmailSentAt, RecruiterMessageDraft, salary fields, Correspondence
Provider/Subject/Channel/etc.) until the next restart. Also caught: my own b4
change (Correspondence.Provider backfill, already merged) had the same
unguarded-on-fresh-DB bug in isolation.
Fixed by promoting the schema-reconciliation helpers (Exec/HasTable/
HasColumn/EnsureColumn and their MySQL equivalents) from local functions to
class-level statics, extracting the ad-hoc-column blocks into
ReconcileCoreAppColumns/ReconcileCoreAppColumnsMySql, and calling them a
second time right after Migrate() succeeds (reusing the connection already
opened for the CoreSchemaReady check) -- idempotent, so free on every boot
except the first one, where it's now required. No inline logic changed,
pure extraction + one additional call site.
Also added Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design to JobTrackerApi.csproj
(dotnet-ef tooling requires it on the startup project since EF Core 6+;
previously only referenced by JobTrackerBackend, where the DbContext lives).
169/169 backend tests green. Verified live: full app boot against both a
fresh empty SQLite DB and a copy of the populated dev DB, both clean.
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b4 of the multi-provider email roadmap. The manual/free-text correspondence
entry path already existed (CorrespondenceController.Create) -- this slice
was narrower than the roadmap wording suggests: tag every Correspondence row
with which provider it came from (gmail | manual today; microsoft | imap
once those providers grow an import-into-Correspondence path of their own),
not build a new endpoint.
- Correspondence.Provider (nullable string), reconciled via the existing
EnsureColumn pattern (SQLite + MySQL).
- Idempotent backfill: rows with an ExternalThreadId (historically only
ever written by Gmail import) get 'gmail'; everything else gets 'manual'.
- GmailController.ImportSingleMessageAsync now tags Provider = "gmail".
- CorrespondenceController.Create now tags Provider = "manual".
- Both write sites use a fixed literal, not request input -- no injection
surface introduced. Backfill SQL is static, no interpolation.
148/148 green (147 existing + 1 new CorrespondenceControllerTests; the
GmailController import test gained a Provider assertion in place).
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b3 of the multi-provider email roadmap. Adds ImapConnection model + table
(reconciler pattern, SQLite+MySQL), ImapService (MailKit-backed IMAP client),
ImapProvider implementing the existing IEmailProvider contract unchanged,
and ImapController for credential-based connect (no OAuth — user supplies
host/username/password directly, verified by a live connect before storage).
Scope, documented inline with ponytail: comments:
- INBOX only, no multi-folder support.
- Thread grouping approximates the References/In-Reply-To chain root rather
than the IMAP THREAD extension, which not every server implements.
- External message ids are IMAP UIDs, scoped to the connection's current
UIDVALIDITY.
Security: ran the security-audit skill against this diff (credential
handling + arbitrary-host connect is exactly the class of change the
standing security gate exists for). Found and fixed a real SSRF: the
connect endpoint let an authenticated user point the server at an
arbitrary host:port with no internal-range check, and connect-vs-auth
failure was distinguishable to the caller -- together a working oracle to
fingerprint internal services (loopback/RFC1918/link-local/cloud metadata)
from the server's network position. Fixed with EnsureHostIsExternalAsync
(DNS-resolve + reject internal ranges, re-checked on every reconnect to
close the DNS-rebinding gap) and a single generic failure message that no
longer distinguishes connect vs auth failure. 7 regression tests added.
Dependency: MailKit 4.17.0 (MIT license) on JobTrackerBackend.csproj --
stdlib has no IMAP client; hand-rolling IMAP4rev1 (TLS, SASL, MIME parsing)
would be a large, security-sensitive protocol implementation nobody asked
for, so this is the correct dependency, not a stdlib substitute.
168/168 green (161 existing + 7 new SSRF regression tests; the earlier
14 IMAP feature tests are included in the 161).
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b2 of the multi-provider email roadmap. Mirrors the Gmail provider's shape
end-to-end so the two stay structurally interchangeable:
- MicrosoftGraphConnection model + table (reconciler pattern, SQLite+MySQL,
same shape as GmailConnection: encrypted refresh/access token, sync state).
- MicrosoftGraphOAuthService: auth-code + offline-access flow against
login.microsoftonline.com, encrypted token storage via IDataProtector,
message search/thread/detail fetch against Microsoft Graph (conversationId
stands in for Gmail's threadId), attachment listing.
- MicrosoftGraphProvider implements IEmailProvider — no contract changes;
the existing seam was already provider-neutral.
- MicrosoftGraphController: connect-url/oauth/callback/status/disconnect,
mirrors GmailController's OAuth surface exactly (including the popup
postMessage handshake). Job-matching/review endpoints stay Gmail-only for
now, per the roadmap — generalising those needs the frontend provider
picker work, not this slice.
- Registered in DI + IEmailProviderRegistry (multi-registration of
IEmailProvider, resolved by ProviderKey).
- Config: Microsoft:ClientId/ClientSecret/TenantId/RedirectUri, wired through
docker-compose.yml + .env.example alongside the existing Google:Gmail* keys.
- Tests: MicrosoftGraphControllerTests (OAuth lifecycle) +
MicrosoftGraphProviderTests (DTO mapping onto the neutral contract).
147/147 green (135 existing + 12 new).
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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.
Add composite indexes (OwnerUserId, IsDeleted) — for the tenant-scoped
list/board/stats/analytics queries that all filter !IsDeleted — and
(OwnerUserId, FollowUpAt) for the reminders surface. Every JobApplication
query is scoped by the OwnerUserId global filter first, so owner-prefixed
composites are the useful shape; the pre-existing single OwnerUserId index
is now a redundant prefix but kept to avoid churn.
Status is intentionally excluded: Pomelo maps the unbounded string column to
MariaDB longtext, which cannot be indexed without a prefix length.
Applied via the startup schema reconciler (StartupInitializationExtensions),
which is how this repo actually provisions schema/indexes on both providers
(SQLite: CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS; MariaDB: MySqlIndexExists-guarded CREATE
INDEX) — NOT via EF migrations, whose committed ModelSnapshot is stale.
OnModelCreating also declares the indexes for model consistency.
Backend suite: 92/92 green.
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Adds SalaryMin/SalaryMax/SalaryCurrency/SalaryPeriod alongside the
existing free-text Salary field (kept for back-compat and display).
- JobApplication model + idempotent column bridging for SQLite and MySQL
- Create/Update DTOs with NormalizeSalary (clamps negatives, swaps
inverted min/max, uppercases currency, whitelists period)
- JobApplicationDto exposes the fields; CSV export gains 4 columns
- UI: add/edit dialogs get min/max/currency/period inputs; job table
renders a formatted range via shared salary.ts formatter (falls back
to free-text when structured values are absent)
- EN/NB translations; backend + full frontend suites green
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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