Career Workbench / Local web application
Career research and resume drafting in a local workspace
Career Workbench helps a person recover experience, compare career directions and write resumes from a saved record of their work. The agent can ask follow-up questions, inspect sources, edit claims and render a profile. The same records are editable in the browser.
FastHTML · Codex / MCP · SQLite · Typst
An example with shared credit and an uncertain metric
A returns coordinator has a useful process-improvement story, but the first account combines their work with a team timing estimate. The follow-up establishes what they owned and what the numbers can support.
Source account
I owned the intake form, tracker and weekly exception review across three branches. Finance owned approval; the timing figures were estimates and coincided with an additional approver.
Write the contribution that is supported
This supports an operations profile through process design and cross-team coordination. A reporting-oriented profile could foreground the tracker and exception analysis. Neither needs to invent a time-saving percentage.
Operations profile · revised draft
Built a returns intake process across three branches and led weekly exception reviews with warehouse staff, resolving missing documentation before Finance approved credits.
- Keep: three-branch scope and direct ownership
- Keep: coordination with warehouse staff and Finance
- Omit: a causal or precisely measured speed claim
The claim remains linked to the account and its correction. The revised PDF gets its own layout and editorial review.
Fixed, self-authored fictional example. It is not a customer record or a recorded model response.
How the agent works with the record
Discovery and research
The agent uses the current account to choose a follow-up question or an evidence lookup. It can compare possible directions and suggest work to fill a gap. A planned project stays distinct from a demonstrated accomplishment.
Corrections
Sources are preserved. Correcting a claim marks dependent profiles and planning records for review, including indirect dependencies. Previous exports retain the sources and wording they used.
Tools and persistence
Codex provides the model-directed loop. MCP tools are scoped to one workspace; general shell and filesystem access are disabled. Chats, jobs and completed changes persist across browser refreshes and interrupted runs.
PDF review
Typst renders the profile with fixed templates. The app checks text, fonts, metadata, page limits and short wrapped lines. The reviewer can inspect the page and each claim’s source; passing geometry checks does not judge the writing.
What has been exercised
Chromium and Firefox checks cover uploads, structured editing, interviews, background rendering and PDF review. Separate live Codex exercises use fictional accounts to inspect tool choices and saved records. They verify an application workflow, not career outcomes.
Verification notes ↗Run the localhost UI
With the prerequisites installed, including an already authenticated Codex CLI:
git clone https://github.com/russedavid/career-workbench.git
cd career-workbench
uv sync --frozen
uv run career-workbench webOpen http://127.0.0.1:5010, create a workspace and add source material. The app uses the saved Codex login. Relevant context is sent to the selected model; local records and exports stay in a private directory outside the code checkout.