The Send Desk - 55 staged, one sent, and the page that owns the send stepCapability

The Send Desk is a page only this Mac can reach, built 10-1, where an application moves through four gates to Submitted. It is now the one place a send is recorded — the step the pipeline never had.

A local workbench is a small program (the LaunchAgent app.zorc.jobs) that serves one web page at 127.0.0.1:8780. The address 127.0.0.1 means 'this machine' — no router, no Cloudflare, no login, and no personal data leaves the Mac. The page reads the same lead folders the nightly writes (JobHunt/leads/<slug>/lead.yaml) and appends to an activity log; it never rewrites a lead file in place.

Four gates per application, each a yes/no you can see. Live: the posting re-verified on the employer's own site (GET-only checks, nightly and on demand). Warm path: a contact found, outreach sent, replied, or skipped on purpose — it stops blocking once the deadline is under five days. My words: each outward asset rewritten by you; an own-words meter counts the five-word runs that do not appear in Claude's reference draft, and marking an asset final below 85% asks for a confirm (the resume is exempt). Submitted: records the real date and freezes the exact files sent. 'Active' is the existing priority-1 field, so the paper briefing's table and the desk always agree; the page warns above five.

Three inputs are waiting on you and nothing else: 3–5 writing samples in profile/voice/samples/ (the voice kit), your LinkedIn Connections.csv in profile/network/ (the people panel), and three outreach templates in library/outreach/. Deliberately not in v1: Gmail drafts, a PDB summary page, and gating the nightly package builds on activation — that last one is worth deciding after two weeks of use.

Worked example

Open the desk and see what it is waiting for.

launchctl list | grep app.zorc.jobs                       # the desk's own LaunchAgent
open http://127.0.0.1:8780                                 # the page; this Mac only

ls /Users/tom/Claude/JobHunt/profile/voice/samples/ 2>/dev/null || echo "no voice samples yet"
ls /Users/tom/Claude/JobHunt/profile/network/ 2>/dev/null   || echo "no Connections.csv yet"

# the stage counts the weekly review quotes
awk -F'|' 'NR>3 && NF>5 {print $5}' /Users/tom/Claude/JobHunt/tracker.md \
  | grep -oE '\*\*[a-z-]+\*\*' | sort | uniq -c

• A running LaunchAgent row means the page is up; if it is missing, `launchctl kickstart gui/501/app.zorc.jobs` restarts it.
• The open line is the whole product. There is no account and nothing to install.
• The two ls lines are the inputs the spec lists as 'not started, waiting on Tom'. Empty folders are the honest state today.
• The awk line reads the tracker's stage column: 39 packaged, 16 drafted, 1 sent, 12 closed on 10-4.

Gotchas

• Nothing auto-submits or auto-sends. The paper briefing stays the GO/NO channel; the desk is where a GO becomes a send.
• Claude's drafts carry a statistical text watermark (since 8-14). Light edits keep it; a real rewrite in your words removes it. The desk measures the rewrite; it never strips or launders.
• Eight staged packages are for employers that ban AI-drafted text; for those the desk shows a writing brief instead of a draft.
• Gone postings show on the desk only; they do not file Things tasks. The paper brief still undercounts staged packages by 15 (it counts packaged, not drafted) — noticed, not fixed.