Terminology

ATS (applicant tracking system) : The software an employer rents to publish jobs and collect applications: Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, SmartRecruiters, Workday, Oracle HCM, Phenom, iCIMS, … The careers page you see is usually a skin over one of these. JobScout talks to the ATS, not the page.

Board : One employer's job list inside an ATS. Identified by a slug (greenhouse:stripe, workday:cisco:wd5:cisco_careers). config/companies.yaml is the list of boards.

Category 1 / 2 / 3 (of employer) : 1 = the ATS publishes a documented public API (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, …). 2 = the employer's own site exposes an undocumented but public JSON endpoint (Workday CXS, Oracle HCM, Phenom, iCIMS) - fetched. 3 = bot-protected or login-walled (Tesla, Apple, LinkedIn, Indeed) - never fetched; reached only through aggregators or the Watchlist. See Sources.

Aggregator : A site that republishes many employers' postings: Adzuna (API key), Remotive, RemoteOK, The Muse, Hacker News "Who is hiring". Cheaper coverage, lower quality (snippets, stale dates, reposts). Source filter "Direct boards (all)" vs "Aggregators (all)".

Fingerprint / dedupe : The same job seen from several sources collapses to one card (fingerprint = normalised company + title), preferring the direct board. Nothing is deleted.

Relevance (prefilter) : Fetch-time title regexes and a description "rescue" rule from the active preset. A posting that fails both is not stored. Change the preset or relevance in skills.yaml, then Refresh.

Keyword score (kw) : 0-100 from config/skills.yaml: title match, seniority, skill groups found in the description, location points, freshness, direct-board bonus, minus flag penalties. Instant; recomputed by Rescore. The prefilter and fallback for the fit score.

Fit score : 0-100 judged by a cheap Claude model against your skills inventory, preferences and judgement rules, with a one-line reason and up to three gaps. Only jobs above the gate (keyword ≥ 60 by default) are sent. The number the list sorts on. See Scoring.

Fit profile : resume/fit-profile.md - the judgement rules. Seeded from the preset; rewritten by a stronger model from your thumbs (too high / right / too low + a note).

Location class : home (your metro), home_state (other metros in your state), remote_us, remote_global (remote without a US signal), us_other (onsite elsewhere in the US), non_us, unknown. Set under Settings → Home.

Work mode : remote / hybrid / office, detected from the location text and description.

Flags : Posting-level warnings with score penalties: citizenship/clearance required, ITAR, export-control notice, no sponsorship, contract.

Status : Your verdict on a job: new, starred, saved, applied, not interested, hidden. Every action is a toggle. Statuses, viewed timestamps, applied timestamps and notes survive refreshes.

Tailoring : The two-phase Claude Code skill: analyze asks only about requirements your inventory cannot answer; generate writes the two-page DOCX, cover letters and Q&A answers.

Plan : The application plan: every field of the employer's form with the value JobScout resolved from profile.yaml, the tailored files, or your typed answers - shown for review before anything is filled. Unresolved fields are shown as such, never guessed.

Prefill / unattended : Two filler modes. Prefill fills the form in your Chrome and leaves the tab for your Submit. Unattended submits only when the live form matches the approved plan exactly.

Filler (/apply-queue) : The Claude Code skill that drains the queue of approved plans in your Chrome through the Claude in Chrome extension. Never captchas, logins, passwords or account creation.

Held / failed / prefilled / submitted : Run outcomes. Held = stopped by rule (login wall, captcha, an unplanned question). Failed = the posting is gone or the page broke. Prefilled = waiting for your Submit.

Refresh / Rescore : Refresh fetches every source (minutes). Rescore re-applies skills.yaml to stored jobs (instant, no network).