fix: bulk history panel overlap + SKILLS section diagnostics (v2.6.3)

loadBulkHistory now hides resultsPanel before showing bulkPanel —
prevents single-gen download buttons overlapping bulk download buttons
(user downloads wrong PDF). Added diagnostic logging for SKILLS
section regex failure on container.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

HISTORY.md

@@ -4,6 +4,19 @@ A running log of everything built, fixed, and changed. Most recent first.
 
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+## 2026-09-03 — Fix overlapping panels + SKILLS diagnostics (v2.6.3)
+
+- **Bulk history panel overlap fix.** `loadBulkHistory` click handler now hides
+  `resultsPanel` before showing `bulkPanel` — prevents single-gen download buttons
+  from overlapping with bulk download buttons (user downloads wrong PDF).
+- **SKILLS section diagnostics.** `_add_to_skills_section` now logs context around
+  "SKILLS" when the regex fails, and `ats_safe.py` logs whether the SKILLS section
+  exists in `final_latex` before calling `place_keywords_naturally`.
+- **`_sanitize_for_tectonic` fix** (from prior session) — `re.sub` lambda replacements
+  prevent `bad escape \u` crash during LaTeX compilation.
+
+---
+
 ## 2026-09-02 — Fix root cause: gap weave was consuming placement keywords (v2.6.2)
 
 **Root cause found:** Step 5.4 (weave) was adding ALL competency gap keywords to

extension/manifest.json

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "manifest_version": 3,
   "name": "ATS Resume Generator",
-  "version": "2.6.2",
+  "version": "2.6.3",
   "description": "Tailors your resume (PDF or LaTeX) to any job posting using the ATS pipeline.",
   "permissions": [
     "storage",

extension/popup/popup.js

@@ -1009,6 +1009,7 @@ async function loadBulkHistory() {
     if (!latest) return;
     bulkResults = latest.results;
     bulkHistoryMode = true;
+    resultsPanel.classList.remove('visible');
     bulkPanel.classList.add('visible');
     generateBtn.style.display = 'none';
     bulkBtn.style.display = 'none';

src/ats_safe.py

@@ -365,8 +365,9 @@ def generate_alignment_safe(
                      and c.get("category", "") in _COMPETENCY_CATS]
         _tool_gaps = [c for c in valid if c.get("category") == "tool"
                       and c.get("normalized_concept") not in _supported_now]
+        _skills_ok = bool(re.search(r"\\section\*?\{\s*SKILLS\s*\}", final_latex, re.I))
         print(f"[kw-place] placing {len(placeable)} of {len(valid)} criteria "
-              f"({len(_tool_gaps)} tool gaps withheld)")
+              f"({len(_tool_gaps)} tool gaps withheld) skills_section={_skills_ok} latex_len={len(final_latex)}")
         final_latex, kw_recs = place_keywords_naturally(
             final_latex, placeable, max_per_section=20, max_per_bullet=10,
             dedup_text=resume_text)

src/resume_rewrite.py

@@ -1033,7 +1033,11 @@ def _add_to_skills_section(latex_src: str, remaining: List[dict],
     from .latex_resume import latex_to_text
     skills_m = re.search(r"\\section\*?\{\s*SKILLS\s*\}", latex_src, re.I)
     if not skills_m:
-        print("[kw-skills] no SKILLS section found")
+        _raw_idx = latex_src.find("SKILLS")
+        _ctx = repr(latex_src[max(0,_raw_idx-60):_raw_idx+60]) if _raw_idx >= 0 else "N/A"
+        print(f"[kw-skills] no SKILLS section found (raw 'SKILLS' at idx={_raw_idx}, "
+              f"len={len(latex_src)}, ctx={_ctx}, "
+              f"sections={[m.group() for m in re.finditer(r'section.*?[}]', latex_src[:3000])]})")
         return latex_src, []
     existing_low = _norm(latex_to_text(latex_src[skills_m.start():]))
     def _wb(pn: str) -> bool: