- A desktop app for Windows and Linux: download it from this release, under Assets.
- Your own sections: Profile → + Add a section makes a section of your own, such as Awards, Courses, Talks or Interests.
- Sections in your order: on the Profile page, drag any section to where you want it, or use the arrows. Skills can come first, for example.
- Sections per resume: an application's Sections menu, next to the theme, reorders and removes sections for that one resume, and can rename a heading on it, say "Experience" to "Relevant experience".
- A resume you've sent stays as you sent it: until now, a sent resume still changed with your profile: deleting a role took it off, and renaming one renamed it.
- Certifications: a certificate was entered under Education, where it got lost among degrees.
Dossier by Alien
A self-hosted job search app that writes tailored resumes and cover letters from your profile.
AI HR and recruiting agents
New · Added to AgentGid on Oct 30, 2026Open source · AGPL-3.0Free to start
Recently added on Oct 30, 2026. The description, category and pricing were filled in from public metadata and have not been checked by an editor yet.
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Price
Free (OSS)
free and open source
Popularity
Not ranked
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Trend
Gaining stars fast
about +189 GitHub stars a day
Development
Actively updated
latest 1.12.0, 2d ago
Community
4,740 GitHub stars
public signals
Usage data: latest readings Nov 7, 2026, last checked Nov 7, 06:26 UTC. Date of each number
What Dossier does
It is free and open source (AGPL-3.0); you pay only for the models it calls.
Key facts
| Maker | Alien |
|---|---|
| First released | October 2026 |
| License | AGPL-3.0 |
| Main language | TypeScript |
| Open issues and PRs | 5 |
Pricing
Open source under the AGPL-3.0 licence; check the website for any paid hosted plans.
Checked Oct 30, 2026. Prices change often; confirm before you buy.
Quick answers
- Free to start?Yes
- Open source?Yes (AGPL-3.0)
- Closest alternativeAlex · all alternatives
What's new in Dossier: November 2026 so far
November brought significant improvements to how you organize and present your profile. You can now customize section order, create custom sections, and keep sent resumes exactly as you sent them.
- Desktop app now available for Windows and Linux.
- Create custom sections like Awards, Courses, Talks, or Interests on your profile.
- Reorder profile sections by dragging, or customize sections per resume.
- Sent resumes no longer change when you update your profile.
1 release this month · summarised from the official release notes · all months
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Dossier alternatives
Best Dossier alternatives compared · All AI HR and recruiting agents
| # | Agent | Gid Score | Downloads 7d | 7d | 30d | Stars | Latest release | Price | |||
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AlexApriora Inc. |
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ConverzAIConverzAI |
— | — | — | — | — | — | Custom | |||
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Eightfold AI InterviewerEightfold AI |
— | — | — | — | — | — | Custom | |||
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JuiceboxJuicebox |
— | — | — | — | — | — | Free + $119/mo | |||
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ParadoxParadox (Workday) |
— | — | — | — | — | — | Custom | |||
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TeziTezi |
— | — | — | — | — | — | Custom | |||
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Dossier news
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Dossier 1.12.0 released
A desktop app for Windows and Linux: download it from this release, under Assets.; Your own sections: Profile → + Add a section makes a section of your own, such as Awards, Courses, Talks or Interests.; Sections in your order: on the Profile page, drag any…
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Dossier 1.11.0 released
Skill groups: with 30 or 50 skills, the resume's Skills section was one long paragraph.; Jev by TypeSafe for scoring: the new Settings → Scoring section chooses what Score in Find jobs and the job agent use: your AI model, as before, or Jev, TypeSafe's model…
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6 agents added to AgentGid
AI, Software Factory, Codesign Mcp, Day Trader Skill, Skill, Dossier
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Dossier gained 2,527 GitHub stars in a week
Now at 2,890 stars.
What changed: recent Dossier releases
20 stable releases in the last 90 days · Monthly summary · Full changelog
- Skill groups: with 30 or 50 skills, the resume's Skills section was one long paragraph.
- Jev by TypeSafe for scoring: the new Settings → Scoring section chooses what Score in Find jobs and the job agent use: your AI model, as before, or Jev, TypeSafe's model for typed judgements, with…
- The MCP connector, for other apps too: Settings → Claude connector is now Settings → MCP connector.
- OpenRouter and OpenCode: both now work as the OpenAI-compatible server. Enter and Dossier uses OpenRouter's API at /api/v1. For OpenCode Go or Zen, the …/openai/v1 address works too.
- Without a key, Dossier no longer sends a made-up one, which some servers refused even for their public model list.
- A server that refuses Dossier's answer format as too complex gets the format in the instructions instead, as Anthropic's API already does.
Earlier releases
- FreeHire as a job source: choose FreeHire in Settings → Job search to search its open catalogue: millions of postings read straight from companies' own career pages…
- A line about the company or role: each role in Profile → Experience has About the company or role, for a line like "Series B fintech, 40 people" that would otherwise sit in the first bullet, where…
- Importing a resume with Anthropic: with Anthropic chosen, it always failed with "The AI provider ran into a problem": Anthropic refuses the shape of answer Dossier asks for as too complex, and…
- DeepSeek's answers cut off: with DeepSeek's API as the OpenAI-compatible server, creating an application failed with "The model's answer was cut off before it was finished": DeepSeek's models…
- "JSearch isn't answering right now": JSearch searches Google for Jobs while it answers, which can take longer than the 10 seconds Dossier waited, outside the US especially, so Find jobs, Test…
- "Invalid time zone specified: Etc/Unknown": without TZ in .env, compose.production.yml gave the container an empty time zone, and the job agent's schedule, the Google sync and Settings failed with…
- "Google couldn't find that. It may have been deleted." in the inbox and in Settings: when a message arrived and was deleted before Dossier's next inbox check read it, spam for example, the check…
- Thinking models on Ollama: with a model that thinks before it answers, such as qwen3.5:4b, reading a posting and writing documents ended in "The model's answer was cut off" or "didn't come back in…
- Publications: a new, optional section in your profile for papers, articles, books and chapters.
- A photo on your resumes: add one in Profile → Basics and crop it: drag it or use the arrow keys, and zoom with the slider.
- A theme for each application: the Resume and Cover letter tabs have a Theme menu.
- Use Dossier from Claude: turn on Settings → Claude connector, add the address it shows in Claude as a custom connector, sign in and press Allow.
- Startups: a new screen of startups that are hiring: YC startups' job posts and the posts in Hacker News' monthly “Who is hiring?” thread, kept to the ones that hire in your city or country, or…
- Leave out: every part of a tailored resume has Leave out in its toolbar, for a role, project, publication or degree that doesn't help with this job, or even the summary.
Dossier popularity and usage data
The GitHub repository has 4,740 stars, 4,741 of them added in the last 30 days. The latest stable release is 1.12.0, published Nov 5, 2026; there were 19 stable releases in the past 30 days.
Download the raw daily series: dossier.csv
Gid Score breakdown
Adoption—
Community28
Attention—
Momentum—
Each component is scored 0 to 100 from public signals; a dash means no data for it. Methodology.
How fresh these numbers are
| Number | Latest reading | Last checked |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | Nov 7, 2026 | Nov 7, 06:26 UTC |
We fetch every source once a day. Registries publish downloads and page views a day or two late, so their latest reading trails the check. A reading more than 4 days old is marked out of date; the Gid Score still uses it until a newer one arrives.
Dossier FAQ
How much does Dossier cost?
Open source under the AGPL-3.0 licence; check the website for any paid hosted plans.
Is Dossier open source?
Yes. Dossier is open source, released under the AGPL-3.0 license.
How popular is Dossier?
The GitHub repository has 4,740 stars, 4,741 of them added in the last 30 days. The latest stable release is 1.12.0, published Nov 5, 2026; there were 19 stable releases in the past 30 days.
What is the latest version of Dossier?
The latest stable release we track is 1.12.0, published on Nov 5, 2026.
What are the alternatives to Dossier?
The closest alternatives in the same category by Gid Score are Alex, ConverzAI, Eightfold AI Interviewer, Juicebox.
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Where these numbers come from
GitHub: aientech/dossier. Site rank: aien.me on the Tranco list. See data sources for how each one is collected.
Product facts and pricing were checked against: dossier.aien.me, github.com.