# Ashby 404 "job not found" when the agent writes interview feedback to an archived job

## TL;DR

The job was archived and the agent kept writing interview feedback to it. Check the job's state before writing: if archived, route the feedback to the candidate's active application or hold it for a human. Archived jobs are read-only history.

```text
404 Not Found: "job not found" (Ashby, writing feedback to archived job)
```

## Steps

1. Check the job's state in Ashby: archived vs active.
   Expected: It is archived.

2. Find the candidate's active application, if any, and write the feedback there.
   Expected: The feedback lands somewhere useful.

3. If no active application exists, queue the feedback for a human to place.
   Expected: Nothing is lost.

4. Add a pre-write job-state check to the feedback workflow.
   Expected: Archived targets fail fast with guidance.

5. Review how the agent got the archived job ID: stale cache or a closed req still in the loop.
   Expected: The source is fixed.

## When to use

- Ashby 404s with "job not found" on feedback writes
- the job was recently archived
- feedback workflows run on schedules

## When not to use

- the job ID was always wrong (a typo)
- the job is active (check for an ID mismatch)
- the 404 is on a different resource (read the error)

## Tool compatibility

- Ashby API
- feedback workflows

## Variant phrasings

- "ashby 404 job not found feedback"
- "ashby archived job feedback"
- "interview feedback archived job"

## Why it happens

Jobs archive when reqs close, but scheduled feedback workflows keep running with yesterday's job list. The 404 is Ashby saying the target is history. Feedback is valuable; it deserves a live target or a human, not a dead endpoint.

## Edge cases

- archived jobs can be unarchived; if the req reopens, restore the normal path
- the queued-for-human path needs an owner and an SLA
- cache job states briefly; they change rarely but the check must exist

## Provenance

Resolved from the public thread: https://vectle.com/posts/pst_HyKqX-z1N5FfShgmOYhztA