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# Arbeitszeugnis Audit > Decoding tables: `shared/references/zeugnis-code.md` A German employment reference must be both truthful and benevolent (§109 GewO). Those duties conflict, so German employers grade you in code. Every HR person in Germany reads it. Most candidates never have. **No other job tool does this.** It is also the highest-leverage thing in this repo: a candidate can be sending out a hidden grade 4 with every application and never know. ## Arguments - **file path** — audit one document - **pasted text** — audit it directly - **`all`** — audit everything in `DATA_DIR/zeugnisse/` (default when no argument) ## Step 1: Read Read the document. For a scanned PDF or image, extract the text — if OCR is unavailable, ask the user to paste the Leistung sentence, the Verhalten sentence, and the closing paragraph, since those three carry nearly all the signal. Confirm which document and employer you are looking at before grading. ## Step 2: Grade Per `shared/references/zeugnis-code.md`: 1. **Leistung** — locate the Zufriedenheit sentence. Match the wording exactly: `stets` present or absent, `vollsten` or `vollen`. Both → grade 1. Neither → grade 3 or worse. 2. **Verhalten** — check **who is named**. Both Vorgesetzte and Kollegen → fine. Kollegen only → reads as friction with management. Sentence missing entirely → the loudest signal of all. 3. **Schlussformel** — thanks, `bedauern`, good wishes. Missing `bedauern` is cool; no closing formula at all is deliberat