jobwatch

jobwatch

Watch the job boards of the companies you care about and get a short, ranked digest of new roles that match you, optionally fit-scored against your resume. jobwatch finds and ranks. It never applies for you.

With sound (1½ minutes, made from made-up data):

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Tutorials

Seven short videos, two minutes or less each, made from made-up data. GitHub's video links last five minutes, so if one stops after a second or two, reload the page and play it again.

Getting started: install, jobwatch ui, the four onboarding steps, Today.

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Your daily routine: today's picks, a job's details, the queue, "I applied", Applications, the prep sheet.

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Where the AI runs: the Claude API, Antigravity or this Mac; the fallback chain; what leaves your computer.

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Applying: the queue, jobs found elsewhere, job-alert emails, status emails, companies to watch.

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Tracking applications: stages and follow-ups, applications that go quiet, the calendar feed, Interviews.

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Interview prep: prep sheets, answers drafted from your stories, a mock interview, a drill video.

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Comps and who you know: pay, career value and company health side by side; the people you know there.

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Get started

pipx install jobwatch      # or: pip install jobwatch

jobwatch ui

A page opens on your computer and walks you through four short steps: about you and your resume, the jobs you want, the companies to watch, and (optionally) fit scores and job-alert emails. Then press Check for new jobs. Install the page as an app from Chrome's address bar to keep it in its own window, or run jobwatch service install to have it always running on a Mac.

Or run it from Claude:

• Claude Code (the Claude app's Code tab, the terminal, and Cowork): add the marketplace vinayvobbili/jobwatch (Settings → Plugins → Add → Add marketplace, or /plugin marketplace add vinayvobbili/jobwatch), then install jobwatch (/plugin install jobwatch@jobwatch). The plugin brings the tools and a skill with the daily routine; it runs jobwatch with uv. Then ask Claude "watch Stripe for product designer roles".
• Claude Desktop with Settings → Extensions: download jobwatch- .mcpb from the latest release, open it and press Install. Claude Desktop sets up everything it needs, uv included.

A chat on claude.ai, or in an app whose plugins run in the cloud, can't reach jobwatch on your computer: the skill loads there, but the tools don't.

Extras: jobwatch[score] (fit scores with the Claude API), jobwatch[local] (fit scores with a local model: run any OpenAI-compatible server, e.g. vllm-mlx serve, mlx_lm.server or LM Studio, and set LOCAL_LLM_URL if it isn't at http://127.0.0.1:8010/v1), jobwatch[mcp] (an MCP server for Claude and other assistants), jobwatch[video] (drill videos for interview prep), jobwatch[lca] (H-1B wage filings from the U.S. Department of Labor as a second pay source: needs openpyxl to read its Excel files; see the watchlist guide). Prefer a terminal? jobwatch init, jobwatch find "Globex", then jobwatch run daily. More on the page and the command line →

What it does

Everything stays on your computer. The only exception is a model you choose for fit scores and chat: the Claude API or Antigravity get the posting and your resume (and, for drafted interview answers, your stories); on-device models send nothing anywhere.

Why it doesn't auto-apply

Tools that auto-apply to hundreds of jobs make the process worse for everyone and rarely work for the person using them:

• Recruiters recognize mass applications.
• Some companies cap how many roles one person can apply to.
• Application forms ask legal questions (work authorization, export control, signatures) that you answer yourself.

jobwatch's job is to make sure you never miss a role worth applying to, and to spend your time on those. Getting more interviews has what moves an application from the pile to a recruiter's call.

The guide

Everything else, from every watchlist setting to the drill video, is in the guide. Development covers running the tests and making a release. MIT licensed.

Support and listings

If jobwatch helps your search, a ⭐ on GitHub is how I know: jobwatch sends nothing home, so stars are the only count of who uses it. If it landed you an interview, a $1 coffee says so too.