santifer/career-ops · warning

Skipped # : status changed from to during review

Error message

Skipped #${r.num}: status changed from ${r.oldStatus} to ${result.conflicts.get(r.num)} during review

What it means

When applying the agreed status updates, reply-watch re-reads the tracker under a shared lock and detects rows whose status changed since the recommendations were computed. If row #N's current status no longer equals r.oldStatus, applying would overwrite a concurrent edit, so the update is skipped and this warning reports the observed intermediate change.

Solutions

1. Re-run reply-watch: it will recompute recommendations against the current tracker state and either apply or surface a fresh conflict.
2. If the concurrent change is the correct final state, do nothing — the skip prevented a clobbering overwrite.
3. If the concurrent change was accidental, restore the intended status with `node set-status.mjs <#> <State>` and re-run.
4. Avoid editing the tracker (manually or via other tools) while reply-watch is applying updates.

Example fix

// before
// Skipped #42: status changed from Responded to Interview during review
// after (recompute against current tracker)
node reply-watch.mjs   # fresh run applies against Interview-era state

const current = getRowStatus(tracker, r.num);
if (current !== r.oldStatus) console.warn(`#${r.num} changed concurrently (${current}) — skipping`);

} else if (result.conflicts.has(r.num)) {
  console.warn(`Skipped #${r.num}: status changed from ${r.oldStatus} to ${result.conflicts.get(r.num)} during review`);
  // re-run reply-watch to recompute against the new state
}

When it happens

Trigger: Another process (set-status.mjs, tracker merge, a parallel session) modified the row between the recommendation phase and the apply phase; user hand-edited applications.md mid-run; a stale tracker file cached at read time.

Common situations: Running reply-watch while set-status.mjs runs from another terminal; reviewing an old reply-candidates.json against a tracker that has since advanced; two reply-watch runs overlapping.

Understand the failure class

Background: "Invalid state transition" errors: "status must be X, actually Y", "already rejected/charging/uninstalled", "cannot ... while running" — what they mean when a library rejects your call — this error's family across 31 libraries.

Related errors

• concurrent reservation test flaked
• # : — no automatic update
• Conflicting status recommendations require manual review:
• Skipped # : row no longer exists in the tracker
• Cannot verify tracker lock ownership at

AI-assisted analysis of santifer/career-ops@aac998c7ed (2026-09-16). Data as JSON: /api/errors/08c4fe3e1853f06d. Report an issue: GitHub.

Appendix: source

Thrown at reply-watch.mjs:338

          const u = updatesByNum.get(num);
          if (u) {
            const line = `${num}\t${todayStr}\t${u.oldStatus}\t${u.newStatus}\treply-watch\t\n`;
            try {
              fs.appendFileSync(statusLogFile, line, 'utf-8');
            } catch (err) {
              console.warn(`Warning: failed to append to status-log.tsv for #${num}: ${err.message}`);
            }
          }
        }
      });
      for (const r of updates) {
        const count = r.count > 1 ? ` (${r.count} replies)` : '';
        if (result.applied.has(r.num)) {
          console.log(`Updated #${r.num} to ${r.newStatus}${count}`);
        } else if (result.alreadyCurrent.has(r.num)) {
          console.log(`No change for #${r.num}: already ${r.newStatus}${count}`);
        } else if (result.conflicts.has(r.num)) {
          console.warn(`Skipped #${r.num}: status changed from ${r.oldStatus} to ${result.conflicts.get(r.num)} during review`);
        } else if (result.missing.has(r.num)) {
          console.warn(`Skipped #${r.num}: row no longer exists in the tracker`);
        }
      }
      console.log('\n✅ Tracker review complete');

      // Sync tracker DB if tracker.mjs exists
      try {
        const { execSync } = await import('child_process');
        execSync('node tracker.mjs sync', { stdio: 'ignore' });
        console.log('Synced database index (applications.db).');
      } catch (e) {
        // ignore
      }
    } else {
      console.log('Updates skipped.');
    }
  }

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