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Four confirmed bugs found reviewing the v0.17.0 diff (v0.16.8..main). Each one was reproduced locally before it was written up, and each hits candidates whose pay is not a salaried base hardest, which puts them on the same job-agnostic theme as CR2 through CR8.

Roadmap items CR10 through CR14.

Ordinary words read as currency codes

Two separate readers treated any three-letter word next to an amount as a currency marker.

The scanner used the full ISO 4217 set, which contains ordinary English words. "Top pay $70,000 for experienced staff." read TOP as the Tongan Pa'anga, flagged a conflict against $, and dropped the figure with no diagnostic. "Top pay" is standard hospitality and retail phrasing.

The dashboard never validated against ISO at all. It ran /\b([A-Z]{3})\b/ and returned the first hit before reaching the $ fallback:

input before after
$120K-$150K DOE DOE USD
$130,000 OTE OTE USD
$120K base + RSU RSU USD
Comp TBD, $90K-$110K TBD USD

The rule now: a three-letter token is a currency code when it is a real ISO code, and for the thirteen codes that collide with English words (TOP, ALL, TRY, PEN, COP, BOB, CUP, GEL, SOS, LAK, YER, RON, BAM) only when written in full caps. That list is closed and derived from ISO itself, unlike a denylist of posting jargon which would rot. gbp 80,000 still resolves to GBP; TRY 70,000 still resolves to Turkish Lira.

Annual-earnings comparables collapsed to the base figure

comparableCompensationBand handled the annual-earnings basis with the base-preferring extractCompBand, though the repo already ships the right parser. On the exact text shape sourced-persistence.mjs writes into tc:

"Base salary $50,000 plus average tips of $30,000,
 for total annual earnings of $70,000-$80,000."

before: midpointK 50   (the base figure)
after:  midpointK 75

The comparable's own annualEarnings field displayed the full range the whole time, so the UI showed the right number while the gate scored the wrong one.

Seniority ladders only matched contiguous substrings

Role, Level and Role (Level) are both normal Greenhouse and Lever renderings, and both failed:

before: "Platform Engineer, Staff"  -> rank 20, below-target  (silently rejected)
after:  "Platform Engineer, Staff"  -> rank 30, at-or-above-target

Matching now splits the title on punctuation and allows those segments to reorder, but words never interleave across segments. That distinction matters: an unordered token-subset rule would have made "Senior Manager, Engineer Enablement" and "Junior Engineer supporting Senior staff" match a Senior Engineer rung. Both are covered as regression cases. Segment permutation is capped at 4 so a pathological title cannot blow up factorially.

Profile editor stuck dirty

profileEditorValuesMatch compared with Object.is, which never matches the new object-valued annualCashWorksheet field because update() always returns a fresh object. Editing a worksheet field and typing the original value back left the editor permanently dirty. Values now compare by content; a genuine change still registers.

Changelog

The v0.17.0 entry claimed the worksheet covers hourly, weekly, monthly and tipped pay. It ships hourly wage, paid hours per week, tips/commission per shift, shifts per week, working weeks per year and an annual floor override. There is no weekly or monthly input, so the claim is corrected rather than the feature widened. Whether to add those inputs is CR14 and Scott's call.

Verification

  • node: 4,773 tests, 0 failures, 17 skipped (baseline 4,747)
  • web: 38 files, 928 tests, 0 failures (baseline 927)
  • biome clean, knip clean
  • every case in the tables above re-run by hand against the built modules, not taken from a report

Changelog

  • 🐛 Fixed currency detection to accept only valid ISO codes and handle English-word homographs.
  • 🐛 Fixed annual-earnings comparable scoring to use annual-earnings bands.
  • 🐛 Fixed seniority matching across punctuation-separated title segments.
  • 🐛 Fixed worksheet dirty-state detection after reverting edits.
  • 🔧 Corrected the changelog to list only implemented worksheet pay inputs.
  • ✨ Added regression coverage for currency parsing, annual-earnings scoring, seniority matching, and worksheet reversion.
  • 🔧 Verified 4,773 Node tests and 928 web tests. Biome and Knip pass.

Four correctness gaps found reviewing the v0.17.0 diff, all of which hit
candidates whose pay is not a salaried base hardest.

- fix(comp): treat a three-letter word as a currency code only when it is
  a real ISO code, and when a lowercase reading would collide with an
  English word, only in full caps. "Top pay $70,000" read TOP as the
  Tongan Pa'anga and dropped the figure; the dashboard never validated
  against ISO at all and rendered "$120K-$150K DOE" as "DOE 135K".
- fix(comp): score annual-earnings comparables from the annual-earnings
  band rather than the base-preferring parser. A row reading "Base
  $50,000 plus tips $30,000, total $70,000-$80,000" fed the comp gate
  as 50 while the UI displayed the full range.
- fix(search): match seniority ladders across punctuation segments, so
  "Platform Engineer, Staff" and "Platform Engineer (Staff)" resolve to
  the Staff rung instead of one below it and being silently rejected.
  Segments reorder but words never interleave, so "Senior Manager,
  Engineer Enablement" still does not match a Senior Engineer rung.
- fix(app): compare profile editor worksheet values by content, so
  reverting an edit clears the dirty state instead of wedging the editor.
- docs(changelog): name only the pay shapes the worksheet actually ships.
  There is no weekly or monthly input.
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The profile editor now compares object-valued fields structurally and clears dirty state after worksheet values are reverted. Annual compensation evaluation now prefers labeled annual-earnings bands. Currency parsing filters English-word homographs and validates dashboard currency codes. Seniority matching now supports tokenized, punctuation-separated, and reordered title segments. Tests cover each behavior.

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In `@src/core/evaluate/comp-comparables.mjs`:
- Line 92: Update the compensation extraction flow so an explicit
annual-earnings label with no extracted annual band causes the row to be skipped
instead of falling back to extractCompBand; retain the general fallback only for
unlabeled bare ranges. Anchor the change around extractCompensationBands,
extractCompBand, and the compBasis annual-earnings handling, and add a
regression test covering the unavailable annual-earnings example.

In `@src/core/scoring/sourced-scanner.mjs`:
- Line 1429: Add MAD to CURRENCY_CODE_ENGLISH_HOMOGRAPHS so lowercase “mad” is
treated as an English word rather than a currency code, and add a regression
case covering “mad $70,000” that preserves the expected extractCompBand result.

In `@src/core/tracker/dashboard-data.js`:
- Around line 3686-3687: Update the currency-detection logic around the explicit
code match and symbol fallback so a matched code is validated against
DASHBOARD_CURRENCY_CODE_SET and returned before evaluating any symbol-based
default. Preserve symbol fallback behavior only when no valid explicit code
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… runner

Both tests in this file render the built app in real Chromium on a shared
4-vCPU runner. The first intermittently blew the 10s locator default
waiting on .chat-first-thread-card[aria-current="page"], failing four
times across three branches while passing on the same branch hours
earlier. It takes 1.5s on an idle machine, so this is runner contention,
not a stuck element.

The 10s default was never a considered budget. It existed so a stuck
locator names the element instead of reporting a bare test timeout, which
is exactly how this got diagnosed. That ordering invariant is what
matters, so both numbers move together: budget 30s to 60s, locator
default 10s to 25s.

The second test had the original problem, a 30s budget with Playwright's
own 30s default and no locator timeout at all, so a stuck wait there would
have reported no element name. It gets the same treatment.
- fix(comp): skip an annual-earnings row whose text carries the label but
  yields no parseable band, instead of falling back to the base parser.
  'Base salary $50,000; total annual earnings unavailable' was pooling as
  a base-only 50 midpoint, which is the bug this branch exists to fix.
  The bare unlabeled range keeps its fallback, so existing fixtures hold.
- fix(comp): add MAD, MOP and RUB to the currency homograph set. All three
  are real ISO codes and ordinary English words. Walked the full 154-code
  ISO list again; nothing else qualified.
- fix(app): check a valid ISO code before the symbol fallback on the
  dashboard, so '$70,000 CAD' stops reading as USD. Reordering alone would
  let an uppercase homograph win, so the dashboard now mirrors the
  scanner's homograph set and '$120K ALL IN' still resolves to USD.
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All three taken, thanks.

comp-comparables you're right, the fallback reintroduced exactly the bug this branch is for. There's now a hasAnnualEarningsLabel check: text that carries the label but yields no parseable band returns null and the row is skipped, while a bare unlabeled range keeps the general fallback so the existing "$70,000 - $80,000" fixtures still pool. Regression test added with your "total annual earnings unavailable" case.

MAD added, and I walked the full 154-code ISO list again rather than just taking the one. MOP and RUB qualify on the same grounds and are in too. Rejected CAN, END and VET because they aren't ISO codes at all (the Venezuelan code is VES), and EGP, AWG, NAD, SAR, THB because they aren't ordinary English words. CAD was the borderline call and stayed out: "cad" is a real word but archaic, and the guard only affects lowercase readings so a real CAD marker is unaffected either way.

dashboard ordering taken, with one addition. Checking the code first fixes "$70,000 CAD", but it also lets an uppercase homograph that is a real ISO code outrank a symbol already in the text, so "$120K ALL IN" would have started returning ALL (Albanian lek). The dashboard now mirrors the scanner's homograph set, with a comment naming the scanner as source of truth so the two don't drift. All ten cases are pinned as regression tests, including that one through the full drawer pipeline.

Separately, browser-application-prep was failing here for an unrelated reason: the render-bound visual contract was blowing a 10s locator ceiling on a loaded runner. It takes 1.5s locally. Budget and locator timeout both widened, keeping the locator strictly under the test budget so a genuinely stuck wait still names the element.

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Verified the fix commit against the threads. Approving.

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