Tracking applications on freehire
Needs a key: freehire auth login --token fhk_… (or FREEHIRE_TOKEN). Every
command takes --json. To find the jobs in the first place, use the
freehire-job-search skill; every command here takes the same <slug>.
Mark, stage, review
freehire apply <slug> # mark applied
freehire save <slug> / unsave <slug> # bookmark
freehire stage <slug> <stage> # applied…offer, or rejected/withdrawn
freehire note <slug> a quick reminder # free-text note (trailing args; no quotes needed)
freehire my --filter applied # tracked jobs with stage + note (all|viewed|saved|applied)
apply and save are idempotent, so retries are safe. The API owns the stage
vocabulary — the CLI only lists it in help, it does not validate client-side, so
a rejected stage name is the server telling you the truth.
my is the answer to "where am I with everything": it carries each job's stage
and note. A posting that has since been pruned from the catalogue shows as a
dash rather than a blank row.
A posting that never answered
If the person applied and was never answered, file it — that is the only channel that gets human evidence into the "possibly inactive" signal other people read:
freehire ghost report <slug> --applied-on 2026-06-01 # the day THEY applied
freehire ghost retract <slug> # withdraw it
--applied-on is required and never guessed: ask the person, or take it from
freehire my --filter applied. The date is the substance of the claim — it decides
when the silence has matured (roughly three weeks) — so a date they did not state is a
claim they did not make.
The rest is the server's: it needs a verified email address (403 otherwise), refuses a future date or one older than a year (400), a closed posting or a second report on the same job (409), and caps how many you can file in a day (429). One report is one of four checks; the stronger wording needs a second person, which is also why a report is never displayed as coming from one identifiable applicant.
Nothing here reaches a moderator and nothing here closes a job. Do not confuse it
with freehire contribute (handing over a job link) or the moderator queue behind
freehire submissions.