Honesty / fact-lock guarantee

We only rearrange what is already true.

PasteApply tailors a resume and cover letter toward one job posting. It rewords and reorders what is already on the source resume — stronger verbs, and the posting's terms only where the resume already supports them. It does not invent a career.

• Never invent employers, dates, skills, tools, or metrics. A reworded line that adds one is reverted to your original line.
• Before/after pairs marked “matched to requirement” are your unchanged bullet, labeled with the requirement it supports. They are not counted as rewrites.
• If the posting wants something that is not on the source resume, that requirement stays missing. We reframe existing work. We show the gap — we do not fill it with fiction.
• Invented claims are bugs, not a feature.

Present / Implied / Missing

Every generate returns a coverage list for skills the posting asked for. The three labels mean:

• Present — the skill is named on the source resume. We can lead with it.
• Implied — a related tool or title is on the resume, not the exact word from the posting. We reframe the work you already have. We do not upgrade it into a claim you did not make.
• Missing — it is not on the resume. We show the gap. We do not invent it.

Fit verdict: exactly one missing must-have makes a draft a “weak” fit, and we name that gap (for example “Missing must-have: 3+ years”); two or more missing must-haves make it “skip”. The interview % follows the verdict (apply 70–95%, weak 45–69%, skip 0–44%), so a weak fit never shows a higher % than an apply.

Edge rules: if nothing on the resume matches the posting at all (no requirement present or even implied), the verdict is “skip”. With no missing must-have, a draft is still “weak” when two or more requirements are only implied or unmet (non-must-have) and those weak signals are at least as many as the requirements clearly present.

How to report an invented claim

If a draft lists an employer, date, skill, title, or figure that was not on the resume you pasted, email support@pasteapply.com with the generation id (if you have it) and the invented line. We treat that as a defect.

Machine-readable proof

Every generate — the website, REST POST /api/generate, and MCP generate — returns stable proof and coverage fields. Bots can verify the lock without scraping HTML. If inventedClaims would be greater than zero, generate fails instead of shipping the invention.

{
  "proof": {
    "factLock": true,
    "inventedClaims": 0,
    "bulletsRephrased": 4,
    "skillsLed": 2,
    "promise": "We only rearrange what is already true."
  },
  "coverage": [
    { "skill": "SQL", "status": "present", "note": "Already on the source resume." },
    { "skill": "Salesforce admin", "status": "implied", "note": "Salesforce is on the resume; the exact title is not." },
    { "skill": "Kubernetes", "status": "missing", "note": "Not on the resume. Do not invent it." }
  ]
}

Field contract: pasteapply.com/agents.md.

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