It sat in clear in the answers table, so whoever copied jobs.db had it. It is now encrypted with Fernet from the cryptography package, under a key in data/secret.key, made the first time it is needed and readable by its owner alone where the system allows it. A password kept plain by an older AIHawk is sealed on its first read. It is opened whenever the answers are read, because the form model still has to type it; a key that cannot open it says the key file was replaced instead of failing quietly. The constant that names it now lives once, in the store. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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Configuration
Press e in AIHawk to change these on the screen. AIHawk reads aihawk.yaml in its folder, ~/.aihawk by default. A missing file, or a missing key, takes the default below. Restart aihawk after you edit the file.
Loading a resume rewrites this file, and the rewrite drops the comments you put in it, so keep your notes elsewhere.
A trial that sends nothing
With the environment variable AIHAWK_DRY_RUN set to anything, an application stops once the form is filled and the send control is found: the job is recorded as blocked, with a screenshot, and nothing reaches the employer. Every step the model took on the page is written to data/trace.log, with the account password hidden; AIHAWK_TRACE set alone writes that file for real applications too. For trying a site or a plugin with a test CV.
What it costs
AIHawk counts the tokens of every model call and prices them with the gateway's own list, read once per start. A sent application shows its cost in its details, and the log says what each application and each scoring cost. The shortlist model's calls are not counted: they go through another endpoint and cost under a cent per hundred postings.
The accounts it made
A site that needs a candidate account, such as Workday, gets one made with your email and the account_password from your answers. Which sites have one is kept in the accounts table of data/jobs.db, by host, so the next form on that site signs in instead of registering again. Nothing asks you to sign in by hand.
Your answers
What the forms are told about you beyond the CV (email, phone, location, links, and anything you add) lives in the answers table of data/jobs.db, the SQLite file in the AIHawk folder. Press e, then "Your answers", to see, change or add them; an answer you gave is kept when a new resume is read. email and mail_provider (gmail or outlook) are the mailbox AIHawk opens for you to sign in to, asked once after the resume and again from "Your mail" in Settings; a site's code can only be read from a mailbox you are signed in to. AIHawk makes an account_password the first time it starts and keeps it there: the one password it uses on job sites that need an account, such as Workday, so you can sign in to those sites yourself. It is kept sealed, encrypted with a key in data/secret.key, and shown plain under "Your answers". The answers.yaml of earlier versions is read once, brought into the table and renamed answers.yaml.imported.
| Key | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
name |
empty | Your name for this search, shown at the top of the list. |
goals |
empty | What you are looking for, in your own words. The decision model and the judge read it. |
database |
https://github.com/feder-cr/Jobs_Applier_AI_Agent/releases/download/jobs-latest/manifest.json |
Where the job database is: the URL of its manifest.json, or the path of a local one. The files it names sit beside it, unless its base_url says otherwise. |
max_age_days |
60 |
Postings posted more than this many days ago are left out. A posting with no date is kept. |
model |
deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash |
Fills the application forms. |
quick_model |
google/gemini-3.5-flash |
Writes the search plan from your CV, and the other short calls of a search. |
judge_model |
deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash |
Writes the score and the report of each shortlisted posting. |
decision_model |
typesafe/jev-1.14 |
Jev, which answers the six questions that shortlist the postings. |
filters.include |
empty | Title words to search for. With no plan, each word is one title. AIHawk asks for a resume until there is a CV and at least one of these. Reading a resume writes this and plan, and the Settings screen does not offer them: a different search comes from a different resume. |
filters.exclude |
empty | Whole words: a posting whose title has one of them is left out. |
filters.locations |
empty | Places a posting's location must name, as whole words. |
filters.countries |
empty | Countries. A posting in one of them passes. With locations, a posting that names one of those places passes only if its country is empty or one of these. |
filters.cities |
empty | Cities. A posting whose location names one ranks higher; others are not left out. |
filters.plan |
empty | The title plan, with nodes and arcs. Each node has an id, a weight and forms, the wordings with their weights; a node of weight 0 only conditions the arcs. Each arc has when or unless (a node or a phrase in the title) and then, a list of target and multiplier; the target * is the whole title. Empty: the plan is filters.include. |