Apply Desk 0.2.0 — Apple Silicon club preview

Apply Desk is now available as a self-contained community preview for Apple Silicon Macs (M1 or newer). No Python, Git or Terminal setup is required for the app.

Install

1. Download Apply-Desk-0.2.0.dmg below. Drag Apply Desk.app to Applications and open it.
2. Confirm your own profile and upload your resume PDF.
3. Press Install Chrome support and follow the one-time Chrome Developer mode → Load unpacked steps.
4. Add opportunities or import a club CSV. Open an employer form and press Prepare this tab in the extension.
5. Press Connect T3, open a conversation in the generated project and approve the local connector. T3 drafts from your confirmed facts and resume; confirm each draft in Apply Desk, then prepare the form again.
6. Review and submit yourself in the employer tab.

First-open approval: this community app is ad-hoc signed, not Apple notarized. Verify its checksum, then use System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway if macOS blocks it. Do not disable Gatekeeper. Chrome and T3 connector trust also require your one-time approval. T3 requires your own provider account.

Included

Private local member workspace, resume text review, profile/resume updates, shared opportunity CSV import/export with outgoing link review, Chrome form preparation, missing-question inbox, evidence-linked T3 drafts, explicit answer confirmation, submission reporting and controlled app updates. The MIT-licensed source contains the selected preparation engine; it does not depend on a private hub or shared account.

Verified

Built from commit 7b5ebad901990116f64d54da36e0a1c5186a3dbb on arm64 macOS 15.8.2. Bundle signatures, arm64 architecture, disk image integrity and collected native minimum-OS targets passed. The app targets macOS 13+; runtime behavior on macOS 13/14 has not been exercised.

The actual frozen executable passed HTTP onboarding/PDF extraction, native-message packets, five-tool MCP discovery/calls, unconfirmed-draft exclusion, confirmed-answer readback, duplicate-launch reuse and private export checks. Source CI passed 21 tests, including synthetic Chromium form preparation and the question → draft → confirm → rescan flow. A disposable Codex app-server fixture loaded the project config, discovered five tools and called list_apply_jobs without a model call.

Source/browser CI · Mac build and frozen verification

Preview limits

The published DMG was subsequently checksum-verified, mounted and exercised on the owner’s Apple Silicon Mac. The frozen HTTP/native/MCP confirmation flow passed there too. T3’s managed Mac Codex 0.166.0 loaded the frozen connector, discovered all five tools and successfully called list_apply_jobs in an isolated ephemeral fixture, with no model request. See mac-provider-verification.json.

This release has not yet passed three unaided club-member installs or a live Mac T3 desktop conversation pilot. Screen Recording is unavailable, so native desktop UI verification remains blocked. The MCP protocol and Codex runtime checks are not evidence of that human pilot. Browser tests use fictional employer pages; site compatibility varies and unsupported controls, accounts, credentials, CAPTCHA, consent and attestations need the member. No live application was submitted for testing. Draft citations remain claims for the member to review.

Profiles, PDFs and answers stay out of club CSV exports. Connecting T3 shares requested context with your selected provider. See README and PRIVACY.md in the source repository for data locations, limits and behavior.