Scout run 2026-09-04 (36 companies, 778 eligible) plus the NVIDIA package it
surfaced, and the tooling and policy fixes found along the way.
Application
- NVIDIA Senior DevOps Engineer, Zurich (JR2024256): submitted 2026-09-05.
Evidence Fit 64/100 Stretch, hard gate FAIL x2, channel Weak. Sent on an
explicit user override with the working model unresolved, so hybrid-vs-onsite
is a live screening topic. 2pp resume + 1pp cover letter, both validators
PASS, 0 boxes, 0 Tier 1 findings open.
Policy
- Drop the 7 Core / 2 Adjacent / 1 Stretch cohort caps. They had no derivation
and were overridden whenever they bound, and the cohort was confounded: it
tested fit class while holding channel constant at Weak across all six
applications. Keep the recording, drop the rationing.
- Channel replaces the slot budget as the rationed variable: no application
goes out cold when a named contact is published and reachable.
- Propagated through shared_ops, session_file_template, cohort_tracker
(counts, never counts-against-a-target) and application_cohort.json.
Tool fixes
- fetch_workday emitted 404 URLs for every Workday company (NVIDIA, Novartis,
Equinor): externalPath is site-relative and needs the locale + site prefix.
6/6 short-form 404, 3/3 long-form 200. 773 dead links repaired across 42
archived reports.
- find_decision_url silently de-linked decisions on two boards, which is why
ruled-out roles kept resurfacing as undecided. RUAG rotates its UUID on
repost; BIS migrated its vacancy URL scheme, orphaning 5 decisions including
a live application. Fixed as a two-tier match, not a slug key -- slugs
collide (two live RUAG reqs shared one).
Knowledge base
- claims.json: add Bash / shell scripting, the third canonical gap of this
shape after Ansible and Linux administration.
- bundle_data_platform: BS-4 was framed as a delivered observability stack over
what claims.json calls a proof of concept -- the defect the 2026-08-21 sweep
was told to look for.
- CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md: correct the RUAG Data Lakehouse shortlist claim,
which the JD does not support and which both files still asserted.
- resume_template: comment-guard the missing babel/ngerman language block.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QFb8tTCig5r1KzkQiNXcYt
Cover letter: 1 page, 270 words, 3 paragraphs, validator PASS. Carries
the one thing the resume structurally cannot - why a Swisscom data
engineer credibly wants a research-platform seat at a market maker,
which against an ex-FAANG field is the main differentiator.
Deliberately uses no external hooks. cl_reference.md says to omit an
unnecessary hook rather than spend words proving company familiarity, so
the only hook is the JD's own language, scraped verbatim and first-party.
No named executives: nothing to verify, and nothing that reads as
name-dropping. The letter also states the R1 gap plainly rather than
hiding it, because a technical reviewer will find it in the first
question anyway and owning it is stronger than being caught by it.
PP-1 appears with its personal-project label and an explicit "I make no
claims for its results".
Separately, loading the bundles for this letter surfaced two live scope
traps. The 2026-08-21 correction that fixed the SW-1 violation in
bundle_data_engineer.md ended with "check the other four bundles for the
same pattern". That sweep was never done, and two of them carried it:
bundle_data_platform.md - the S5 cover-letter hook read "migrating
Swisscom's legacy ETL stack to a cloud-native AWS platform", and its
narrative thread said "migrating an entire ETL infrastructure". Both
pair a full-ownership framing with a company-scale object, which
claims.json SW-1 forbids outright.
bundle_ml_ai_engineer.md - the SW-1 reframing row read "Built
cloud-native data infrastructure on AWS ... the scalable data layer",
which is both a full-ownership verb on an org-scale object and an
unverified scale claim.
Both rewritten to the scoped form with inline scope warnings, matching
the data_engineer fix. bundle_analytics_engineer.md and
bundle_semiconductor.md were checked and are clean.
These were loaded traps: any future cover letter built from either
bundle would have started from a sentence claims.json forbids.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MHtzyTKBcg6BWhD5qFegtK
13 bullets, 6 skills lines, International Tech profile in English with an
explicit Languages line naming German as mother tongue (user instruction).
Framing leads on operate-and-own — Component Ownership with on-call and
governance answers the JD's "Betrieb" and "Verantwortung für Qualität und
Nachhaltigkeit" — and carries the Bosch industrial sensor-data thread
(defect records, wafer inspection images, PCM parameters) against the
role's vorausschauende-Wartung purpose. GenAI/LLM material dropped.
Two deviations from the approved 11-bullet plan, both deliberate:
Fraunhofer keeps one combined bullet rather than zero, because dropping the
role opens an unexplained 21-month gap between Vizrt and Bosch; and BS-1 is
added as a fifth Bosch bullet, HIGH priority in the bundle and directly
relevant to an employer running a 24/7 network.
Kept the guarded page break after testing the natural flow: without it page 1
fills, but two Bosch bullets land on page 2 with no visible employer header.
Hierarchy beats page-fill, and page-fill quotas were removed on 2026-07-27.
Gates: canonical validator PASS (0 warnings), forbidden-token scan PASS (none
of the seven non-canonical JD tools present), scope-discipline scan PASS,
compile PASS at exactly 2 pages, both pages visually inspected. SW-1 and SW-7
bullets also read by eye against their claims.json forbidden lists.
Not submitted — held pending the Anforderungsniveau K comp answer.
Also fixes a KB defect found during generation: bundle_data_engineer.md §S5's
cover-letter hook read "leading the migration of our legacy stack", a
full-ownership verb on a company-scale object that contradicts claims.json
SW-1 and its own narrative thread. Rewritten, warned inline, and recorded in
the CLAUDE.md corrections log. The other four bundles are unchecked.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WpMtWFtYkGkjSMShuTgXiB
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