Sites and plugins

Sites and plugins

AIHawk fills an application only where it has a plugin for the site. Postings on any other site are listed for applying by hand, with their link.

What each site does on a real form

From docs/sites.md in the repository on 2026-11-06. Postings are counted by host in the job index built on 2026-11-04, rounded to the nearest thousand.

Site	Postings	Status	What stops it
Greenhouse	~200k	Sent and confirmed	Required questions the CV and answers do not cover, on other forms.
Ashby	~76k	Sent and confirmed	Required questions, a closed posting, or a Submit button that stayed disabled.
Lever	~101k	Sent and confirmed	The page said "Application submitted!" on the one real send.
Recruitee	~26k	Sent and confirmed	Required questions that test answers do not fit, on other forms.
Teamtailor	~30k	Sent and confirmed	A test phone number was refused once; required questions on other forms.
Breezy	~50k	Sent and confirmed	One real send.
Workable	~35k	Send clicked, not confirmed	The button stayed on "Submitting" beside an unticked Cloudflare box.
SmartRecruiters	~519k	Reaches the send button, not always	One form of 11 minutes reached the button; a later run stopped at 150 steps. No send has gone.
Paylocity	~228k	Reaches the send button, not always	A 5-step form of 27 minutes reached the button; a later run stopped at 150 steps. No send has gone.
JazzHR	~154k	Stops at a captcha most of the time	reCAPTCHA turned into an image puzzle on 5 postings.
BambooHR	~87k	Stops at a captcha most of the time	reCAPTCHA puzzle on 5 postings; one later run reached the button with no captcha shown.
Personio	~64k	Stops at a captcha about half the time	Turnstile passed on 2 of 4 postings.
Workday	~1,481k	Plugin written, not yet run on a real Workday site	Needs an account on each company's site: the plugin makes it with your email and the account password, and reads the verification code from your mail. Run end to end on a local copy of the flow on 2026-11-07 (82 steps, 7 minutes, 2.67 cents): account, code from Gmail, six steps, CV, submitted.
iCIMS	~622k	No plugin	Needs an account.

"Sent and confirmed" rests on one send per site. Read it as "it can send", not "it sends reliably". A captcha shown as a box is clicked, as a person would; a puzzle stops the form as blocked, for you to finish by hand. A form no longer stops at what the CV does not say: the model fills every required field from what the CV says and implies.

The twelve sites with a plugin, then: Ashby, BambooHR, Breezy, Greenhouse, JazzHR, Lever, Paylocity, Personio, Recruitee, SmartRecruiters, Teamtailor, Workable.

What a plugin is

A plugin is a Markdown file. Its front matter, between two --- lines, says which sites it is for and, optionally, where the form is:

• hosts: the sites the plugin applies to, such as greenhouse.io.
• apply_path: a path added to the posting's link to reach its form, when the form is not on the posting's own page.

The body is a prompt. It is added to the instructions of the model that fills the form on that site, and it explains that site's form. A plugin explains the site to the model.

The bundled plugins are in src/aihawk/plugins/ in the repository. A file in plugins/ next to your aihawk.yaml (in ~/.aihawk/ by default) wins over a bundled one with the same name, and a new file there adds a site with no code. How to automate job applications with Python says where that sits in the rest of the program.

Mail

Two plugins, for Gmail and Outlook, apply to every form rather than to one site. They tell the model to use the mailbox only when a form, or the site it belongs to, asks for a code or a confirmation link that was sent by email, and to take that code or link only from a message sent by the site it is applying to and received in the last few minutes. It may not send, delete, archive, move or reply to anything else. The model may open the mailbox twice in one form; a code that is not there by then ends the form as blocked. A mailbox that shows a sign-in page stops the form, and AIHawk then asks you to sign in, in the browser it opens on your mailbox, and runs that application again. The Gmail plugin read a real code from a real Gmail inbox on 2026-11-07; Outlook has not been tried.

Writing a plugin

The guide is docs/plugins.md in the repository: the format, a real plugin as the example, and how to test one without sending anything to an employer.