Truthfulness and Safety

Truthfulness and safety

What the engine may write about the candidate

Output	Source	Gate
Resume bullets, projects, skills	Fact Bank entries, selected and ordered	resume.validate() rejects anything not in the bank
Skill spelling	the JD's spelling of a skill already listed ("Kubernetes (K8s)")	only from a fixed alias table; stripping aliases must give the original line exactly
Form answers	presets, approved answers, ordered rules	unset preset → the human queue
"Do you have experience with X?"	Yes only if X (or its meaning, e.g. SPA → React) is in the skills	never a guessed "No"
Open-ended answers (v0.8)	Fact Bank sentences chosen for this job	logged with fact ids in drafts_review.md and the event log

What is never drafted or guessed

Sponsorship, work authorization, citizenship, export control, arbitration, salary, EEO and demographics, references, background checks, and anything sensitive (SSN, bank, passwords, date of birth). The draft module refuses these by pattern before it looks at the Fact Bank, and the "answer from the page" API refuses them too.

A worked example: "without sponsorship for the next 5 years"

A candidate on OPT is authorized to work today without sponsorship, but will need it later. A form asked "Are you able to work in the US without visa sponsorship for the next 5 years?". The plain "authorized without sponsorship" rule would have answered Yes, which isn't true. v0.8 adds a long-term variant whose answer is derived from the presets (needs sponsorship in the future → No), and the legal airbag checks the same variant, so a "Yes" there now stops the submission.

Airbags (checked before every submit)

Airbag	Trigger
Sensitive field	SSN, bank/routing, card, password, DOB, driver's license, passport, tax id
Payment	application or processing fee, card or billing details
Unexpected site	the form moved to a host that isn't an ATS or the job's own site
Answer drift	a legal answer differs from the presets
Rate caps	daily cap (default 25) and 3 per company per day
Kill switch	workspace/STOP exists

A fired airbag records a flag, sends an SOS email if configured, screenshots the form, and moves on without submitting.

Human checks

hCaptcha, reCAPTCHA, Cloudflare Turnstile and Ashby's automation flag are detected and handed to the candidate with the form filled and the resume ready. After an Ashby flag, Ashby submissions pause for 24 hours.

Privacy

profile/ and workspace/ are git-ignored. CI runs a privacy gate on every pull request and push (PII patterns, forbidden paths, noreply-only commit emails, keyed fingerprints of private terms). The public demo is built from anonymized events and refuses to publish if a company name would leak.

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