diff --git a/CLAUDE.md b/CLAUDE.md
index f76534c..aa5159f 100644
--- a/CLAUDE.md
+++ b/CLAUDE.md
@@ -104,6 +104,13 @@ plans/             # LinkedIn post drafts
 - *"Infrastructure skills are **a plus** … Good knowledge of **German**"* (Helvetia) — presence-based matching let an unrelated "a plus" 95 chars away cancel a real requirement.
 - *"Fluent in **English**; **German** and/or French advantageous"* (albedis) — "Fluent" is nearer to "German" than "advantageous" is, but qualifies English.
 
+Three further rules, added 2026-09-01 after an audit found the filter catching **0 of 24** basel-jobs.ch postings that mention German:
+- **Coordination beats the intervening-language rule.** *"Excellent communication skills in both **English** and **German**"* (Karakun) and *"Fluency in **English** and **German**"* (J. Safra Sarasin) are hard requirements, but "English" sitting between the marker and the mention handed the marker to English and waved them through. A marker now still binds when the other language is *coordinated* with German (`and`/`und`/`sowie`/`&`/`as well as`). Deliberately **excludes `and/or` and a bare `or`** — *"Very good English and/or German"* (BBF) is satisfied by English alone and must stay optional.
+- **German-language markers actually match now.** `sehr\s+gute?` could never match *"Sehr gutes Deutsch"* — the trailing `\b` fails against the "s". It's `sehr\s+gut\w*` now, plus `fliessend\w*`, `Deutschkenntnisse` and `erforderlich`. This is why every German-written Swisscom posting ("Sehr gutes Deutsch in Wort und Schrift") passed the filter.
+- **Spec-sheet language lines.** *"Languages: German & English"* (contractor postings) has no adjective to bind to, so the `Languages:`/`Sprachen:` label itself counts as a required marker. It still goes through the nearest-marker comparison, so *"Language: English and German (bonus)"* correctly loses to the closer "bonus".
+
+Regression cases for all of the above live in the git history of this change; re-check them before touching `requiresGerman` — the optional/required boundary is where every past bug has been.
+
 Deduplication: job IDs are extracted from `results/jobs.csv` on startup; any ID already seen is skipped before content-checking.
 
 ### SearchConfig
diff --git a/fetch.ts b/fetch.ts
index 97c97b5..5b426bf 100644
--- a/fetch.ts
+++ b/fetch.ts
@@ -158,7 +158,16 @@ const GERMAN_OPTIONAL_RE =
 
 /** Within a mention's window: signals it is genuinely required at B2+. */
 const GERMAN_REQUIRED_RE =
-  /\b(?:required|require[sd]?|must|mandatory|essential|necessary|fluen\w*|proficien\w*|excellent|strong|very\s+good|good\s+(?:knowledge|command|level)|native|mother\s*tongue|business\s+level|negotiat\w*|B2|C1|C2|verhandlungssicher\w*|fliessend|fließend|muttersprach\w*|sehr\s+gute?|gute?\s+Deutschkenntnisse|voraussetzung|zwingend)\b/i;
+  /\b(?:required|require[sd]?|must|mandatory|essential|necessary|fluen\w*|proficien\w*|excellent|strong|very\s+good|good\s+(?:knowledge|command|level)|native|mother\s*tongue|business\s+level|negotiat\w*|B2|C1|C2|verhandlungssicher\w*|fliessend\w*|fließend\w*|muttersprach\w*|sehr\s+gut\w*|gut\w*\s+Deutschkenntnisse|Deutschkenntnisse|voraussetzung|zwingend|erforderlich)\b/i;
+
+/**
+ * Spec-sheet style language line ("Languages: German & English"), common on
+ * contractor postings. There is no adjective for the nearest-marker logic to
+ * bind to, so the label itself counts as a requirement — but it goes through
+ * the same nearest-marker comparison, so "Language: English and German (bonus)"
+ * still loses to the "bonus" sitting closer to the mention.
+ */
+const GERMAN_SPEC_LABEL_RE = /\b(?:languages?|sprachen|sprache)\s*[::]/i;
 
 /** Title-level marker — no description fetch needed. */
 export const GERMAN_TITLE_RE =
@@ -175,19 +184,35 @@ export const GERMAN_TITLE_RE =
 export function requiresGerman(text: string): boolean {
   const flat = text.replace(/\s+/g, " ");
   const optional = new RegExp(GERMAN_OPTIONAL_RE.source, "gi");
-  const required = new RegExp(GERMAN_REQUIRED_RE.source, "gi");
+  const required = new RegExp(
+    `${GERMAN_REQUIRED_RE.source}|${GERMAN_SPEC_LABEL_RE.source}`,
+    "gi"
+  );
 
   // A marker binds to the German mention only if no OTHER language name sits
   // between them: in "Fluent in English; German ... advantageous", "Fluent"
   // qualifies English, not German.
   const OTHER_LANG = /\b(english|french|italian|spanish|portuguese|anglais|français|englisch|franz|italienisch)\b/i;
 
+  // …except when that other language is *coordinated* with German, where the
+  // marker governs both: "Excellent communication skills in both English and
+  // German" (Karakun) and "Fluency in English and German" (J. Safra Sarasin)
+  // are hard requirements that the bare rule above waved through — the entire
+  // reason 24 basel-jobs.ch postings mentioning German were caught 0 times.
+  // Deliberately excludes "and/or" and a bare "or": "Very good English and/or
+  // German" (BBF) is satisfied by English alone, so it must stay optional.
+  const CONJOINED = /\b(?:and|und|sowie|as\s+well\s+as|&)\s*$/i;
+  const ANDOR = /\b(?:and\s*\/\s*or|or)\s*$/i;
+
   const nearest = (re: RegExp, window: string, at: number, bind: boolean): number => {
     let best = Infinity;
     for (const m of window.matchAll(re)) {
       const i = m.index ?? 0;
       const between = i < at ? window.slice(i + m[0].length, at) : window.slice(at, i);
-      if (bind && OTHER_LANG.test(between)) continue; // belongs to a different language
+      // "…English and German" keeps the marker; "…English; German" or
+      // "…English and/or German" hands it to the other language.
+      const conjoined = CONJOINED.test(between) && !ANDOR.test(between);
+      if (bind && OTHER_LANG.test(between) && !conjoined) continue;
       const d = Math.abs(i - at);
       if (d < best) best = d;
     }