0008. Side effects¶

Context¶

A dry run is not invisible. Ashby saves each field to its servers as it is typed, and Teamtailor stores the resume when it is uploaded, before anyone clicks submit.

Decision¶

Each adapter declares its side effects:

{ step: "load" | "fill" | "upload" | "submit" | "sign_up" | "profile",
  reaches: "hiring_system" | "employer",
  effect: "each field change is saved to Ashby as typed" }

They are shown before anything is filled: status lists them for every adapter, and read returns them for the system it found. The home's owner, having read them, mutes them per adapter and per user in the config file (ADR 0006), mute-side-effect-warnings = ["ashby", "teamtailor"] or ["all"]. read then leaves them out for those adapters, and status still lists them, marked muted. An adapter added later warns until it is muted.

Creating an account (login --create, ADR 0015) and saving an account profile (profile --answers, ADR 0017) are side effects too, and never part of fill or send.