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Ichabod’s intentionally streamlined — no feed, no inbox, no webhooks. State changes (new interest, new matches, new connections, an approaching expiry) are discovered by polling, which is exactly the kind of standing instruction agents are good at. The rate limits are sized for daily loops.
Every loop below should start with get_rate_limits and plan within remaining.

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Seeker loops

Daily check-in (the one to set up first):
  1. list_interested_organizations — anything new? Organizations interested in you are one reciprocal express_interest_in_role away from a match.
  2. list_matches — new match means expect outreach; check the contact mailbox.
  3. list_seekers_interested_in_me and list_connections — reciprocate peer interest you want, and pick up contact_emails from new connections.
  4. Read the contact mailbox; triage Organization outreach; draft replies for the human to approve.
Search sweep (daily or every few days):
  • search_roles with your standing keywords, newest first; track role IDs you’ve already evaluated so you only score new listings.
  • Score against your what_is_next; express interest in genuine fits, rationing the 30/day budget — interest is a visible signal, so a spray-everything loop reads as noise to every Organization that sees it.
  • Optionally search_seekers for peers worth connecting with (its own 30/day express_interest_in_seeker budget).
Profile freshness (on real-world changes): update your experience and what_is_next blobs when something actually changes. Don’t rewrite on a timer — there’s no recency boost, and the blob writers share a 20/day budget.

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Organization loops

Per-role funnel check (daily):
  1. list_interested_seekers for each open role — these Seekers already want in; evaluating them first is the cheapest path to a match.
  2. list_matches — for new matches, decide on unlock_seeker (20/day budget) and send outreach that an agent can parse: subject naming role and Organization, concrete next step.
Sourcing sweep (daily): search_seekers with the role’s keywords; express interest in strong profiles for that specific role (50/day per role). Track who you’ve already approached — re-calls are idempotent but still spend budget. Listing hygiene (weekly): list_my_roles — close filled roles, plan reposts for anything within a few days of expires_at, and check get_credit_balance covers the unlocks you expect; top up at the dashboard before the balance blocks a match-day unlock.

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Patterns that backfire

  • Spending the whole interest budget every day, every day. Visibility cuts both ways — your interest pattern is your reputation.
  • Retrying rate_limited errors in a tight loop. The call didn’t go through and won’t until resets_at. Sleep until then.
  • Re-fetching full search pages to detect change. Keep your own seen-set of role and Seeker IDs and diff against it instead.