When the fabrication guard blocks a change
The six rules that make a rewrite get thrown away, what the refusal means about your document, and the three honest ways to get the point onto the page.
A refusal looks like a failure and is the opposite. It means something was about to be written onto your CV that your own words did not support, and it was thrown away instead.
The six rules
A rewrite is discarded if any one of them fails.
| Rule | What it catches |
|---|---|
| It says something new | An unchanged line is not a failure, it is the right answer for a bullet with nothing to say here |
| No invented number | Every run of digits in the new line must appear in the old one |
| No dropped measurement | A rewrite that quietly deletes your figure is the tool undoing its own advice |
| No invented name | Every proper noun and acronym must come from your line, not from the advert |
| Every word has a source | A word from a claim that was never proved for that bullet has nowhere to have come from |
| It is still the same sentence | Losing nearly half a bullet is losing evidence; growing it by half is padding |
The invented-number rule is the one that matters most in practice. A wrong figure is the thing you get asked about in an interview and cannot explain.
Why proper nouns come from your line and not the posting
An employer, a product or a technology named in the advert and not on your line is exactly the claim this product exists to refuse. The advert says what they want. Your CV says what you did. Only the second one is evidence about you.
What to do when it blocks something
Three honest routes, in the order worth trying.
- Check whether the fact is really yours. If you did the work and the number is real, put it in your base CV in the editor. Everything downstream can then use it, on this application and on every later one.
- Answer the question instead. Where a posting screens for something your CV never mentions, the product asks you directly, and your answer is durable: one answer about vendor management unlocks that keyword for every posting that ever screens on it.
- Accept the miss. If you have not done the thing, the refusal is telling you something true about this role. That is a Fit signal, and Fit does not move by rewriting.
What a refusal is not
- It is not a refusal to tailor. The rest of the changes stand.
- It is not a judgement about your honesty. The guard cannot see intent, only sources.
- It is not silent. A refusal nobody can see is indistinguishable from a rewrite that was never attempted, so the six refusing outcomes are reported and the "nothing to change here" outcomes are not counted as refusals at all.
If refusals suddenly get frequent
The sentence rewriter runs against a model, and a cheaper model embellishes more often. Everything it invents is caught and discarded, and the deterministic draft is used instead, so the output stays honest either way. What a run of refusals costs you is polish rather than truth.
If it looks excessive, say so. The fix on our side is a better model, never a looser guard.
Next: why nothing finalises without you.
Questions about this
Is a refusal a bug?
No. It is the guard doing its only job. The refused rewrite is discarded and the line you wrote is kept, so the document is never left in a half-changed state.
Why is the rewrite thrown away rather than repaired?
Because a rewrite that introduced an unsourced word is one whose reasoning cannot be traced, and keeping the half that looks fine is how a fabrication survives a guard.
The posting mentions a tool I have used but my CV does not name it.
Then add it to your CV yourself, in the editor, or answer the question when you are asked. A word in the advert is not evidence about you.
Does the guard run on the free tier?
The guard runs wherever a rewrite does, in your browser. Rewriting itself is a paid step.
Treat a refusal as a question about your CV
Almost every refusal is the product noticing that the evidence for a claim is somewhere other than your document. Putting it in your document is the fix.
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