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Why

Cover letters should look and read like the user's own Jump Trading letter. The old letter was a plain full-width page with a date, an address block, a "Re:" line and "Yours faithfully". Its body followed a generic intro / why them / why me / ending formula.

What changed

Layout (classic_letter.html, new letter.css, measured from the user's PDF)

• The name in Gelasio, with the surname in sage (#648276). Gelasio is bundled under OFL and has the same letter widths as Georgia.
• "Computer Science Graduate" beneath the name, then a sage rule.
• A right-aligned left column: Contact (town and postcode, phone, email; no street address), then "Recruitment Team, / Company, / Town."
• A sage line between the columns and a sage band on the page's foot. The band is position: fixed in print, because WeasyPrint places an absolute box under a min-height body right after the text.
• "Dear Hiring Manager" as a heading; "Kind Regards," and the name in sage. No date or "Re:" line.
• The letter's old rules are removed from base.css.

Writing (agent.generate_cover_letter)

• The prompt follows the user's four parts:
  1. a hook from the hardest challenge in one of their projects, tied to a concrete employer fact;
  2. "Two projects demonstrate…", with a "Separately," judgement call;
  3. an honest gap taken from a real requirement in the ad (or a third piece of evidence if nothing is missing);
  4. the close.
• The sign-off "Kind Regards," and the closing line "Thank you for your time and consideration and I hope to hear from you soon." are set after the critique and revision passes, so they always hold.
• _LETTER_RUBRIC judges against that structure.

Smaller

• "C++" no longer breaks across lines: a word joiner goes in through a template filter. It's a filter because the latin-1 fallback PDF can't carry one.
• The editor's "Date & recipient" card becomes "Recipient" (Company, Company location); the letter no longer shows a date or role.

Tests

• Updated and added letter tests in tests/test_documents.py:
  • sign-off and salutation;
  • closing line;
  • column order with no date or Re: line;
  • street address left out;
  • recipient lines;
  • "C++".
• Measured PDF test: Gelasio embedded, name 45pt sage, headings 14pt sage, band on the foot.
• The fit tests now use prose at the user's letter's density (5.2 characters a word); the old test words run to 8. 420 words fit one page without tightening.
• Fast suite: 1068 passed. The WeasyPrint tests, run in the API container: 63 passed.
• Generated a real Catapult letter with the new code: four parts as specified, and the fact checks found nothing.

After deploy

Rebuild with docker compose up -d --build api frontend. Autopilot writes new documents on every run, so the next letters use this style.