Board

Tracker board

Read and maintain the application pipeline in ~/.dear-hiring-manager/applications.md (the flat-file tracker). Two jobs: show the board and update a status.

Show

1. Read applications.md. If it's missing or has no rows, say so and point to /dear-hiring-manager:apply or :batch.
2. Render a board grouped by status, in pipeline order: blocked → skipped → filled → submitted → rejected → interview → offer.
   • A count per column header.
   • One line per application under its status: company — role (fit N · applied <date> · N flags).
   • A one-line summary: totals, and response rate = (interview + offer) / (submitted + rejected + interview + offer) — i.e. responses over everything ever submitted (status is single-valued, so an advanced app has left the submitted bucket). Show n/a when that denominator is 0.
3. Surface what's actionable:
   • blocked apps (CAPTCHA / unreadable form) → need your manual action; list them first.
   • filled apps not yet submitted → parked, awaiting the human's Submit.
   • submitted apps with no status change in >14 days → consider a follow-up.

Update

When the user reports progress (e.g. "Transcend → interview", "Airbnb rejected"):

1. Find the matching row in applications.md by company/role.
2. Set its status and append a dated note in the flags/notes column (e.g. interview 2026-07-20). Never delete history — append.
3. Re-render the board.

Rules

• Flat-file only; applications.md is the single source of truth, human-readable Markdown.
• Status lifecycle: in-progress → blocked | skipped | filled → submitted → rejected | interview | offer.
• Never fabricate a status — only reflect what the human reports or what apply/batch recorded.