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/helpers/page_metrics.py

@@ -8,38 +8,38 @@ The review reported ~50-55% for four packages. This reproduces that measurement
 compiled PDF so a change can be checked rather than asserted. The percentage is a diagnostic,
 never a target: no pixel goal, no forced page-two filling.
 """
-import io
 import re
+import shutil
 import subprocess
 import sys
 import tempfile
 from pathlib import Path
 
-sys.stdout = io.TextIOWrapper(sys.stdout.buffer, encoding="utf-8", errors="replace")
-PDFTOTEXT = Path(r"C:\Users\Dennis\AppData\Local\Programs\MiKTeX\miktex\bin\x64\pdftotext.exe")
 HEADINGS = ("professional experience", "berufserfahrung", "experience")
 
 
 def measure(pdf: Path) -> dict:
+    executable = shutil.which("pdftotext")
+    if not executable:
+        raise RuntimeError("pdftotext is required on PATH (Poppler or MiKTeX)")
     with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as work:
         out = Path(work) / "bbox.xml"
-        subprocess.run([str(PDFTOTEXT), "-bbox", "-f", "1", "-l", "1", str(pdf), str(out)],
+        subprocess.run([executable, "-bbox", "-f", "1", "-l", "1", str(pdf), str(out)],
                        capture_output=True, check=True)
         xml = out.read_text(encoding="utf-8", errors="replace")
     page = re.search(r'<page width="([\d.]+)" height="([\d.]+)"', xml)
+    if page is None:
+        raise ValueError("No page geometry found in pdftotext output")
     height = float(page.group(2))
     words = [(float(m.group(2)), m.group(5).lower())
              for m in re.finditer(
                  r'<word xMin="([\d.]+)" yMin="([\d.]+)" xMax="([\d.]+)" yMax="([\d.]+)">([^<]*)</word>',
                  xml)]
-    first_y = None
-    for index, (y, text) in enumerate(words):
-        if text in ("professional", "berufserfahrung", "experience"):
-            following = " ".join(w for _, w in words[index:index + 2])
-            if any(h.startswith(following.split()[0]) for h in HEADINGS):
-                first_y = y
-                break
-    lines = len({round(y, 1) for y, _ in words})
+    rows = {}
+    for y, text in words:
+        rows.setdefault(round(y, 1), []).append(text)
+    first_y = next((y for y, row in sorted(rows.items()) if " ".join(row).strip() in HEADINGS), None)
+    lines = len(rows)
     return {
         "height": height,
         "experience_y": first_y,