tailor-application
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Tailor resume and cover letter for a tracked application from the dossier, register artifacts, and stage them for candidate review.
2 other projects use a version of this.
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- CodesWhat/careerrattheir own version, first seen Nov 3, 2026
- manuelschurr/professional-twintheir own version, first seen Apr 10, 2026
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- CodesWhat/careerrat★ 4same name
- manuelschurr/professional-twin★ 0same name
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In this repository7 other files it gives its agents.
- AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- CLAUDE.mdCLAUDE.md
- apply-in-browserSkill
- find-jobsSkill
- outreach-playbookSkill
- review-loopSkill
- session-startSkill
The file
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
5 rules. About 0 are common, 0 are distinctive, and 5 are very specific to this project.
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- Very specific: line 8
Ensure the job exists and is scored: node bin/applymate.ts job match <jobId>.
- Very specific: line 9
If the relevance gate refuses, tell the candidate.
- Very specific: line 14
Read the chosen resume plus supporting dossier docs (dossier search).
- Very specific: line 15
Write workspace/applications/<appId>/resume.md and cover-letter.md, tailored to the JD with only dossier facts.
- Very specific: line 44
Read it and follow it literally.
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 350,495 skill files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
Tailor an application
- Ensure the job exists and is scored:
node bin/applymate.ts job match <jobId>. If the relevance gate refuses, tell the candidate; proceed only with their explicit--force. node bin/applymate.ts app start <jobId>— prefer--resume <dossier path>using the best suggestion fromjob matchoutput (candidate keeps per-company resumes; fall back to the master resume).- Read the chosen resume plus supporting dossier docs (
dossier search). Writeworkspace/applications/<appId>/resume.mdandcover-letter.md, tailored to the JD with only dossier facts. Close obvious keyword gaps the dossier truly supports; list real gaps innotes.mdinstead of inventing. The resume must not contain the target company's name or the target role's title anywhere — no header, objective, summary, or body line. Naming them makes the resume look customized for the posting; tailor the content, keep the document generic. (The candidate's own past employers and titles stay. The cover letter is where company and role belong.) Before registering, run both documents through thehumanizerskill — every word that goes out in the candidate's name must pass it (prime directive 6 in AGENTS.md). It strips AI tells so the documents read like the candidate wrote them; facts and claims stay untouched. - Apply the candidate-mandated resume standards (full text in AGENTS.md,
"Resume standards"):
- One title per line — each position is company line, title alone, date range alone. Never join titles/dates on one line (ATS).
- Meta lines must be parser-friendly (this is what portal resume parsers
read to autofill forms — verified on Workday 2026-09-30 where decorative
company lines dropped every company): company line is plain text
Company, City, Country— no heading markup, no parentheses, no sub-brand names, no em dashes; title line may be bold; date line isMMM YYYY – MMM YYYY(en dash) with nothing else on the line — no italics, no notes ("promoted within 15 months" goes in the description in parentheses); context paragraphs sit plain between dates and bullets, never italic. Company belongs to the line, not the heading. - The candidate's own content list — which projects, labs, awards and
open-source work must appear, and the exact wording rules for each — is in
the workspace, not in this repo:
node bin/applymate.ts profile note get resume-standardsRead it and follow it literally. If it is missing, ask the candidate to create it (profile note set resume-standards <file.md>) rather than inventing content. - Ship as a 2-page A4 PDF: the stock
renderHTML has no print CSS — apply a print stylesheet and verify the page count before showing the PDF. - Upload/submit under a generic filename (candidate's name only) — never the target company/role in the filename; recruiters see it. Per-company names are for the private dossier copies only.
- Register artifacts:
node bin/applymate.ts app artifact <id> resume applications/<id>/resume.mdnode bin/applymate.ts app artifact <id> coverLetter applications/<id>/cover-letter.md
node bin/applymate.ts rendereach artifact; ensure the review UI is running (chat serve) and tell the candidate what to review and where. Portal form work does not start until the candidate has reviewed these artifacts — "apply to X" authorizes the tailoring, not a bypass of the review.- Move status as work completes:
matched → tailoring → ready.readyrequires the resume artifact (toolbelt-enforced). Submission waits for the candidate's explicit go — always.
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