fix(check-jd-archive): reject login-wall/404/paywall/JS-shell text as non-content by Schlaflied · Pull Request #3837 · career-ops-hq/career-ops

Schlaflied · 2026-09-04T18:36:15Z

Summary

check-jd-archive.mjs validated that a report's archived JD section was long enough (MIN_ARCHIVE_CHARS = 40 non-whitespace chars), not that it was actually a job description. A LinkedIn authwall like "Sign in to view this job · Join LinkedIn to see who you know at Acme" clears 40 characters comfortably, so a fetch that hit a login wall, a 404 page, a paywall interstitial, or a "please enable JavaScript" shell got archived under a heading promising (archived verbatim), and the validator reported green — a false positive worse than no archive at all, since the user believes the real posting is saved for a later negotiation or interview round.

This adds a third rejection category — detectNonContentMarker / NON_CONTENT_MARKERS — alongside the two the file already had from PR #2791's review (UNFILLED_TEMPLATE_PLACEHOLDER, the path-only pointer sentence). Same mechanism, same place in the validation flow, same --summary reporting convention. It covers:

Login/auth walls — LinkedIn-style "Sign in to view this job", "Join LinkedIn to see who you know at", generic "Please log in" / "Sign in to continue"
404 / not-found shells — "404 ... not found", "Page not found", "This job posting is no longer available"
Paywall interstitials — "Subscribe to continue reading", "This content is for subscribers"
"Enable JavaScript" shells — "Please enable JavaScript", "This site requires JavaScript", <noscript

Each finding's detail now names the specific reason (e.g. "looks like a sign-in/login wall, not a posting") instead of a generic miss, per the issue's own ask.

Explicitly not built here (per the issue's own analysis)

Raising MIN_ARCHIVE_CHARS — a verbose authwall beats any length bar a terse JD can also clear.
Cross-checking against the report's own "Keywords extracted" section — fails twice: the heading is translated in 16 of 19 modes, so a name-based selector silently finds nothing in most languages; and more fundamentally the archive and keywords are written by the same agent, in the same pass, from the same text, so they'd agree even on a login wall (internal consistency, not veracity). That's a different, future issue (detecting when an archive and an analysis describe different postings), not this one.

Careful about over-rejecting

Deliberately did not reject generic "this posting has closed" / "no longer available" phrasing standing alone — an ATS showing a genuine "this posting has closed" message for an expired listing is legitimate content worth keeping for the record. Only the specific login-wall/404-shell/paywall/JS-required shapes are rejected.

Test plan

Extended check-jd-archive.mjs's own inline --self-test (wired into test-all.mjs) with unit-level checks for detectNonContentMarker/hasEmbeddedJdArchive covering each rejected shape
Added a fixture-directory-tree case (report 007) proving a login-wall archive gets flagged with the specific reason in its detail
Added a genuine terse-but-real JD fixture proving the check isn't over-aggressive
Added a fixture where real JD prose merely mentions "sign in" in passing (to an internal system) without matching the anchored login-wall phrasing, proving no false positive
node check-jd-archive.mjs --self-test: 54 passed, 0 failed
node test-all.mjs: 8134 passed, 5 failed (5 failures are pre-existing on unmodified upstream/main — missing js-yaml in node_modules and unrelated fixtures — confirmed via git stash + rerun before this change)

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check-jd-archive.mjs:243 now detects login walls, 404 pages, removed postings, paywalls, and JavaScript-required shells. Users receive a specific validation reason, such as “looks like a sign-in/login wall, not a posting” (check-jd-archive.mjs:410).

Archives that contain these non-content pages now fail validation instead of passing only because they exceed the character minimum. Genuine terse job descriptions and job-description text that mentions signing in remain valid (check-jd-archive.mjs:564).

Self-tests cover each marker category and the false-positive cases (check-jd-archive.mjs:522).

No changes were made to AGENTS.md, modes/, update-system.mjs, DATA_CONTRACT.md, providers/, or .github/.

… non-content check-jd-archive.mjs validated that a report's archived JD section was long enough (MIN_ARCHIVE_CHARS = 40 non-whitespace chars), not that it was actually a job description. A LinkedIn authwall like "Sign in to view this job · Join LinkedIn to see who you know at Acme" clears 40 characters comfortably, so a fetch that hit a login wall, a 404 page, a paywall interstitial, or a "please enable JavaScript" shell got archived under a heading promising "(archived verbatim)" and the validator reported green. Adds a third rejection category (detectNonContentMarker / NON_CONTENT_MARKERS) alongside the two the file already had from PR career-ops-hq#2791's review (UNFILLED_TEMPLATE_PLACEHOLDER, the path-only pointer sentence), covering login/auth walls, 404/not-found shells, paywall interstitials, and "enable JavaScript" shells. Each finding's detail now names the specific reason ("looks like a sign-in/login wall, not a posting") instead of a generic miss, per the issue's own ask. Explicitly not built here, per career-ops-hq#3829's own analysis: raising MIN_ARCHIVE_CHARS (a verbose authwall beats any bar a terse JD can also clear), and cross-checking against the report's own "Keywords extracted" section (translated in 16/19 modes, and the archive + keywords come from the same agent's same pass over the same text, so they'd agree even on a login wall — that's a different, future issue about archive/analysis mismatch, not this one). Extends check-jd-archive.mjs's own inline self-test (--self-test, wired into test-all.mjs) with fixtures for each rejected shape plus a genuine terse-JD fixture and a "mentions signing in in passing" fixture, proving the new check isn't over-aggressive. Closes career-ops-hq#3829 Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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The Job Description archive validator now detects login walls, 404 pages, paywalls, and JavaScript-required shells. It rejects matching sections as archives and reports the specific reason. Shared extraction supports validation and marker detection. Self-tests cover false positives and login-wall reporting.

Archive validation

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Marker detection and shared extraction `check-jd-archive.mjs`	Lines 193–259 add categorized detection for non-content responses and shared cleaned Job Description extraction.
Archive rejection and finding details `check-jd-archive.mjs`	Lines 275–283 reject sections that match non-content markers. Lines 409–420 include the specific rejection reason in findings.
Self-tests and login-wall reporting `check-jd-archive.mjs`	Lines 522–574 test marker categories and legitimate text. Lines 665–701 verify login-wall detection and reporting details.

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Archive validation now rejects common non-content pages with specific reasons while retaining coverage for legitimate job-description text. No current merge-blocking risk is identified.

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In `@check-jd-archive.mjs`:
- Line 217: In the authentication-marker regex used by hasEmbeddedJdArchive(),
replace the broad “please log in” alternative with a full auth-wall phrase such
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CodeRabbit review on PR career-ops-hq#3837: the bare "please log in" alternative in the login-wall NON_CONTENT_MARKERS regex was too broad and would match legitimate JD prose like "Please log in to our internal LMS after onboarding" — wrongly rejecting a genuine archive as a false missing-jd-archive finding. Narrowed to the full "please log in to continue" phrase (dropping the bare alternative), and added a regression test for the exact false-positive shape CodeRabbit flagged: real JD prose instructing the eventual hire to log in to an internal system, unrelated to the archive itself being a login wall. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

santifer · 2026-09-05T16:04:00Z

Another solid one, @Schlaflied. Anchoring each non-content shape to phrasing a real posting wouldn't carry, and refusing the temptation to reject every "closed" message, keeps the check from becoming its own false positive; the "please log in" regression case from review is the proof. Merged 🚀

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