# Update Job Eagle. Keep your search.

Tested exports: Claude 0.1.18 to 2.2.0; ChatGPT 2.2.0 to 2.3.0. These checks cover saved records, not every older format or an entire chat.

Your search history lives in your chats and saved files, separate from the Job Eagle workflow ZIP. Bring those files to the new version to continue from where you left off.

## 1. Back up your current search

In your existing Job Eagle chat, paste:

> Prepare a complete handover of my current job search: a full progress JSON checkpoint and my latest tracker. Include all confirmed facts and corrections, preferences, resume exclusions, every tracked company, drafts, application and outreach history, replies, follow-up dates, and company-batch history. Preserve my dates and timezone, and keep real and simulated activity separate. Flag anything missing; do not invent or reset counts. Also give me the latest resume DOCX and PDF and any separately saved drafts. Do not send or submit anything.

Download the progress JSON and tracker. Keep your latest resume DOCX/PDF and separate drafts too, along with the old chat. A short recap or tracker alone may leave out important history. Keep these originals until you have checked the upgraded files.

## 2. Download the latest package for your platform

Choose the ChatGPT package if you use ChatGPT, or the Claude package if you use Claude. Keep the ZIP zipped. Platform versions can differ; use the latest download for your platform.

## 3. Open a new chat and attach your files

Attach the new Job Eagle ZIP, your saved progress JSON, and your latest tracker (XLSX or CSV). Attach your current resume and separate draft files too if you want the new chat to have those documents available.

## 4. Paste the upgrade message

> I’m upgrading my existing Job Eagle search. Open the attached new Job Eagle ZIP, read its SKILL.md and supporting references, and use that platform release from now on. Restore my search from the attached older progress checkpoint and tracker; do not restart intake or discard any existing data. Preserve all candidate facts, corrections, preferences, resume exclusions, companies, drafts, events, statuses, follow-up dates and batch history. Keep real and simulated activity separate. Use only these attached records, not memory or other chats. Keep the saved as-of dates and timezone unchanged. Export an updated full progress JSON and tracker, and briefly tell me what carried over and flag anything missing or incompatible. Do not research, contact anyone, submit anything or record a new action.

## 5. Check, then continue

Check your company list, application/email/reply counts, follow-ups, search limits and resume exclusions against your old files. Download the new checkpoint and tracker. Once they match, continue in the new chat using the updated records. Tell Job Eagle today's date and timezone when you are ready to advance the search date.

## If you do not have a progress JSON

Go back to the old chat and request the full handover above. If that chat cannot produce JSON, ask for the complete record as text and a tracker CSV, then attach or paste those into the new chat with your documents. Ask the new version to identify gaps before creating its checkpoint. This text fallback has not been tested as a lossless upgrade; missing history cannot be recovered from the workflow ZIP.

## What this updates

This switches the workflow used in the new chat. Uploading a ZIP does not automatically update an installed skill, private plugin or Project instructions. Use the relevant setup guide for that separate installation, and keep your search backups.

Only supplied records and documents can carry over. The new workflow ZIP does not contain your old chats or recreate a resume file that was not uploaded. Older employer research stays historical until rechecked.