Private, Local-First Intelligent Assistant
F.R.I.D.A.Y. (Female Replacement Intelligent Digital Assistant Youth) is an advanced personal AI coding assistant and career autopilot engineered for private, local execution on macOS.
🔒 Local-First Client Architecture
F.R.I.D.A.Y. executes locally on authorized macOS workstations. It connects externally strictly to essential functional endpoints: Google APIs for authorized services and target employer portals to submit applications.
🛡️ Encrypted macOS Keychain Security
All OAuth tokens and credentials are encrypted using Apple macOS Keychain Services (AES-256 user login keychain) and owner-restricted file permissions (0600). Tokens are never saved in plaintext files or source repositories.
🎯 Precision Career Autopilot
Streamlines the software engineering and quantitative developer internship application lifecycle across official applicant tracking systems (ATS), eliminating repetitive data entry while preserving total owner oversight.
Why F.R.I.D.A.Y. Requests Gmail Read-Only Access
F.R.I.D.A.Y. requests access strictly to the restricted Google OAuth scope:
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.readonly.
During automated internship application submissions, employer Applicant Tracking Systems (such as Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, and Ashby) frequently require email identity confirmation by issuing a short-lived one-time passcode (OTP) or magic sign-in link.
- Strictly Scoped Queries: Queries are bounded to approved ATS domains and the applicant email within a 10-minute timestamp window (e.g.,
from:myworkdayjobs.com to:user@domain.com after:...). - Zero Mailbox Scanning: F.R.I.D.A.Y. never reads, indexes, or scans general inbox messages, personal threads, or unrelated correspondence.
- Zero Email Body Retention: Extracted verification codes and authentication links are processed in volatile memory solely for active application verification and discarded immediately after use. Full email texts and headers are never written to disk or databases.
- No Commercial Sharing or AI Training: Google user data is never sold, shared with advertisers or data brokers, or used to train artificial intelligence models.
- Local Operational Tracking: Application history (job URLs, status, submission receipts) is maintained in an on-device SQLite database to prevent duplicate submissions.
Developer & Security Controls
F.R.I.D.A.Y. is built by Alpha Software Solutions for private, single-user operation. Access can be revoked at any time through your Google Account security dashboard:
• Google Account Revocation: Manage Google Permissions
• Local macOS Purge: Deleting the Keychain item com.friday.career.gmail_oauth and local directory ~/Library/Application Support/FRIDAY/career clears stored tokens and operational history.