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name: follow-up-sweep
description: "Use each morning (routine js-follow-up-sweep) or when the owner asks who is waiting on a nudge, to draft the human nudges due at 4 and 9 business days (never more than 2), route silent applications to find a person, and mark silent prospects dormant."
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# Follow-up sweep

Owner: messenger (card `agents/messenger.md`, ## Gate, Follow-ups). Tier: T1 (drafts); each nudge is sent only after
the owner's yes, by the lane holding the card, through `playbooks/send-after-yes.md` (see the charter, focused lanes). Produces
one approval file of due follow-ups, dormant marks and recorded sends.
Voice and style: follow the user's style config (`<data>/config/style.yaml`, keys `style.*`) and voice guide
(`<data>/profile/VOICE.md`) if present; these are filled in by the user, not shipped.
Today is !`date +%F`.

## Inputs
Work from the user's data folder (`$JAJA_DATA`).
1. Sends reported since the last run: the lanes' send receipts (`playbooks/send-after-yes.md`), mail-triage's
   `Handoffs` (`O-id -> message id`), the owner's word, `/linkedin-assist` receipts.
2. `python3 scripts/follow_ups.py --json`: the one due list (see the charter). Its `prospect` and `portal-thread` rows
   are nudges to draft here; its `application` rows (silent 5 business days) go to the prospector to find a person at
   the company, never a nudge to a careers inbox; its `portal-message` rows are answers owed (`/draft-reply`).
3. Per due prospect: `prospects/<slug>.md` (Timeline), `python3 scripts/pursuits.py list --person <slug>`.
4. The nudge templates in `playbooks/outreach.md` (two nudges, then stop).

## Outputs
- `state/drafts/F-<date>-1/<slug>.md` (`kind: follow_up`, same channel, thread and subject; `continue_from` filled per
  the card), then outbox items and one `work/approvals/A-*.md` through `outbox.py create`.
- Prospects set `dormant` through `prospects.py`.
- Reply: `State` · `Moved` · `Needs you` (the approval path) · `Next`.

## Procedure
1. Record reported sends first: `python3 scripts/outbox.py mark-sent --id <O-id>`; first messages then
   `python3 scripts/prospects.py set <slug> status=replied`.
2. `python3 scripts/follow_ups.py --json` (Inputs 2). Skip, and note why, when: they wrote after our last message (`last_inbound_at`
   later than `last_outbound_at`: a reply for `/draft-reply`); status is not `replied`; do-not-contact or closed; a
   linked application is live; their last message was an out-of-office (the date moves, no nudge).
   Route, never skip, every person, company or application on a personal path: list them under "Personal (the owner's)"
   and hand each to the focused lane (drafted there with the thread read, sent by the agent after
   the owner's yes on the card): `python3 scripts/day_queue.py add --kind focused --title "follow-up: <name>" --note "prospects/<slug>.md"`.
   That is anything named in a `pursuits/*` folder (the referrer, the company, its applications) and the owner's personal
   contacts. Skip automated senders (no-reply, profile marketing services) and applications with no named person on
   record (no generic nudge to a careers inbox).
   If the owner has set a review trial (a recorded ruling in `hub/rulings.yaml`), every draft goes to the owner for
   review in the approval batch; none is pre-approved, batched for sending or sent until the owner lifts the trial.
3. By `follow_ups_sent`: 0 gives nudge 1 at day 4 (one new fact); 1 gives nudge 2 at day 9 (an easier path);
   2 gives no draft and `python3 scripts/prospects.py set <slug> status=dormant`. Silent applications: hand each to the
   prospector (find a person at the company); its first touch opens a conversation about them (outbox lint checks
   this), then this cadence.
4. Draft into `state/drafts/F-<date>-1/<slug>.md`; measure with `sed '1,/^---$/d' <draft> | wc -w` (or `wc -m` for
   LinkedIn); `python3 scripts/check_holds.py <draft>` exits 0; `python3 scripts/outbox.py lint --batch F-<date>-1`
   prints `{}`.
5. `python3 scripts/outbox.py create --batch F-<date>-1`.
6. Receipt in the routine run log; the reply.

## Gate
The follow-up rules in `agents/messenger.md ## Gate` (4 and 9 business days, never a third, each adds one new
thing, stop on any reply). Before handover: `outbox.py lint --batch F-<date>-1` prints `{}` and `check_holds.py` exits 0
for every draft.

## Stop conditions
`prospects.py` or `outbox.py` fails; a nudge would be the third; a prospect is do-not-contact or tied to the owner's
current employer; the thread shows a reply the CRM missed (report it to mail-triage, no nudge). Escalate to the
Recruiter: approvals older than 24 hours.

## Scope
Writes: `state/drafts/F-*/`, outbox items through `outbox.py`, statuses `replied` and `dormant` through `prospects.py`.
Unattended (routine) runs stop at the approval file and never run `gmail_pull.py draft` (the compose scope can send);
Gmail drafts happen only in an attended `/draft-reply` session. Never send, never hand-edit `prospects/` or `outbox/`.
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