fix: follow-up review corrections, BIS rejection, and a gitignore miss

Second-pass review of this session's work by another agent. It corrected several
real mistakes of mine and finished F06 gaps I had left open. Reviewed, verified
and committed as-is.

THE MISS THAT MATTERS
`job_scout/state/applications.json` — the authoritative application registry
introduced by F02 — was never actually tracked. `job_scout/state/*` in
.gitignore silently excluded it, so my checkpoint commit afdef7e claimed to add
it and did not. Only `application_cohort.json`, the GENERATED projection, was
version-controlled; the source of truth and the migration history backup were
not. .gitignore now carries explicit negations for both.

MY ERRORS, CORRECTED
- "kastellaun" was in CH_LOCATION_KEYWORDS. Kastellaun is in Rhineland-Palatinate.
  I took it from a Bundeswehr reserve listing and filed it under Switzerland -
  precisely the class of bug F12 existed to fix.
- The F12 fix only widened the keyword list; SmartRecruiters still discarded the
  structured country, which was the concrete case the review named
  (city=Baar, country=CH). The adapter now preserves it, and a COUNTRY_NAMES
  mapping gives country precedence over a bare town name.
- F15 was applied to Taleo and Prospective only. Greenhouse still wrote
  `updated_at` into `posted`; it now uses `published_at` and carries provenance.
- My negation guard `\b(no|not|...)\b[^.;]{0,60}$` was too loose - an unrelated
  "not" within 60 characters could mask a real claim. Tightened to require the
  negation to govern the term.
- F18's retirement of the macro-count rule missed "Four to six compact skills
  lines" in the workflow; removed now.

F06 GAPS I LEFT OPEN, NOW CLOSED
Date-format validation on education/employment periods (the 2035-99 case named
in the review), evidence-structure validation, referential integrity on evidence
source files, and the missing-identity KeyError.

F10 TAKEN FURTHER, AND RIGHTLY
I demoted the US-GPA fields to *_orientation_only. They are now removed
entirely, with grade_output_rule saying what to do instead: use the German grade
and scale, and if a recipient requires a US GPA, use THEIR method and record it.
Keeping a number derived by a non-recognised method invites its use.

Also: the Capgemini omit-preference now sits in experience_capgemini.md itself,
alongside the instruction not to fill or explain the intentional gap.

BIS BASEL - REJECTED 2026-09-11
jr100429, applied 2026-07-10, no interview, no reason given. Recorded in the
registry with a dated event and in the decision log; the "prep interview brief
when screening lands" next action is cleared. This also settles the 2026-09-04
observation that the req had vanished from the BIS board - it was a real
rejection, not just a closed posting.

VERIFICATION I RAN MYSELF BEFORE COMMITTING
49/49 tests. Validator PASS with 0 advisory warnings. Package manifest and
registry views current. All 12 F12 location cases still correct, including
Kastellaun now rejecting. The F05 counter-proof still catches all 9 violations.
SBB, NVIDIA, RUAG and Kdo Cy resumes still scan clean. Diffs are net-additive
across every reference file - the deletions are replacements, not losses.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Qej5SBvhcbGXHwLqNWiskM

resume_builder/canonical/claims.json

@@ -50,12 +50,12 @@
       "thesis_institution": "Tongji University, Shanghai",
       "thesis_title": "Development of a Web-Based Remote Fault Diagnosis System",
       "final_grade": "1.6 (German scale, 1.0 best / 4.0 lowest pass) -- user-confirmed 2026-08-26",
-      "final_grade_us_4pt_orientation_only": "3.4 -- modified Bavarian formula, US = 1 + 3*(4.0-G)/(4.0-1.0), which simplifies to 5.0 - G. Use ONLY when a form demands a 4.0-scale GPA; always state the German scale alongside it. Never present as a natively-awarded GPA. ORIENTATION AID, NOT A CANONICAL QUALIFICATION and NOT a recognised conversion: the modified Bavarian formula converts FOREIGN grades INTO the German system, so inverting it to produce a US GPA is not an accepted method, and the TUM source describes even its forward calculator as orientation only. The canonical fact is `final_grade` on the German scale. Supply this only when a specific recipient demands a 4.0-scale GPA; if that recipient publishes its own method, use THEIRS and record which was used. Demoted 2026-09-11, review finding F10.",
       "thesis_grade": "1.0",
       "thesis_relative_grade": "ECTS grade B; official certificate on file. B is formally the next 25% after the top 10%, i.e. the 10-35% band -- so the correct and safe phrasing is 'top 35%' (user-confirmed 2026-08-26). Do NOT write 'top 30%' or 'top 25%': B is a band, not a point, and narrowing it overstates the standing. The original 'top 35%' in this record was correct; a briefly-considered 30% was the error.",
       "thesis_methods": "Verified against the thesis PDF 2026-08-02. Domain: vibration-based condition monitoring of CNC machine tools (piezoelectric accelerometers on spindle, tool rest, lathe body). Features: speed, load and the dimensionless waveform, peak, pulse, margin and kurtosis indices. Surveyed CBR, PSO, RBR and ANN; SELECTED a hybrid of rule-based reasoning (interpretable thresholds) plus a 7-10-3 feed-forward ANN (faultstates green/yellow/red) to handle noisy data that static rules cannot classify. Extensible plug-in architecture for swappable diagnosis methods and data collectors. Java/GWT client-server on MySQL. Evaluation measured throughput and latency, NOT model accuracy: the pipeline sustained ~500 samples/s against tri-axial vibration sensors delivering 72.9 kSPS, so the thesis concluded data reduction, filtering or batch scheduling is required for real-time use.",
       "thesis_limits": "PSO was SURVEYED ONLY and NOT used in the implementation -- never claim it as an applied method. No real operational data: training data came from a cited thesis, test data was modified plus a random generator. No model-accuracy figures exist. Back-propagation retraining was listed as future work, not implemented. Frame as a methods prototype/framework, never as a validated production predictive-maintenance system.",
-      "transcripts_language": "English-language originals available for B.Eng. and M.Eng."
+      "transcripts_language": "English-language originals available for B.Eng. and M.Eng.",
+      "grade_output_rule": "Use the confirmed German original grade and its scale. Omit grades from industry resumes and letters unless concretely relevant. Do not convert with the inverse Bavarian formula. If a recipient requires a US GPA, use only its specified conversion method and record that method; otherwise ask the recipient how to enter a German grade."
     },
     {
       "id": "EDU-BENG",
@@ -64,8 +64,7 @@
       "start": "2009-10",
       "end": "2012-10",
       "final_grade": "2.4 (German scale, 1.0 best / 4.0 lowest pass) -- user-confirmed 2026-08-26",
-      "final_grade_us_4pt_orientation_only": "2.6 -- modified Bavarian formula (5.0 - G). Supply ONLY when a form requires a bachelor GPA; leave blank where optional. Always state the German scale alongside it, because the conversion makes German degrees read weaker to a US audience than they are: 2.4 is a solid 'gut'. Never present as a natively-awarded GPA. ORIENTATION AID, NOT A CANONICAL QUALIFICATION and NOT a recognised conversion: the modified Bavarian formula converts FOREIGN grades INTO the German system, so inverting it to produce a US GPA is not an accepted method, and the TUM source describes even its forward calculator as orientation only. The canonical fact is `final_grade` on the German scale. Supply this only when a specific recipient demands a 4.0-scale GPA; if that recipient publishes its own method, use THEIRS and record which was used. Demoted 2026-09-11, review finding F10.",
-      "grade_output_rule": "Neither degree grade goes on the resume or in a cover letter by default. Industry resumes omit grades; the M.Eng. thesis grade 1.0 is the only figure worth surfacing, and only where academic performance is genuinely valued. These fields exist for application-form GPA questions and credential checks. The German grades are the canonical facts; the *_orientation_only conversions are neither canonical nor a recognised method and must never be presented as an awarded GPA (F10, 2026-09-11)."
+      "grade_output_rule": "Use the confirmed German original grade and its scale. Omit grades from industry resumes and letters unless concretely relevant. Do not convert with the inverse Bavarian formula. If a recipient requires a US GPA, use only its specified conversion method and record that method; otherwise ask the recipient how to enter a German grade."
     }
   ],
   "employment": [