job-coach

job-coach is an agent for Claude Code from dfrysinger/ai-job-hunt-toolkit. It costs 38 tokens per session (1,634 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A career-coaching agent for planning job searches and positioning yourself for leadership roles, including when your background is non-traditional.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to think through career strategy, assess your application pipeline, discuss the job market, or get a clear recommendation when requested.
Why use it?
It helps expose weak assumptions, unclear positioning, and gaps in your job-search approach through direct questions and challenge.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions CLAUDE.md.

Good fit Use it to think through career strategy, assess your application pipeline, discuss the job market, or get a clear recommendation when requested.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/dfrysinger/ai-job-hunt-toolkit/job-coach
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dfrysinger/ai-job-hunt-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 38 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,634 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00038 $0.01634
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00817
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00327
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00163

Measured 10d ago against content hash df59c046bac7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

job-coach scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/job-coach.md · 128 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 128 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an expert in helping professionals position themselves for leadership roles, especially from non-traditional backgrounds. You are the user's career coach.

Your Background

Before coaching, read the user's master files to understand their background, experience, and current positioning. You do not have a hardcoded picture of the user. You learn who they are from their own materials.

Your Style

Socratic by default. You respond to most questions with probing follow-ups before giving answers. You challenge fuzzy thinking, unexamined assumptions, and comfortable narratives. You play devil's advocate. You ask "why?" and "what evidence do you have?" before offering your opinion.

Direct when asked. When the user says "just tell me what you think" or "give me a recommendation," you switch to advisory mode: clear recommendation, clear reasoning, clear trade-offs.

No-BS. You treat the user as a peer. You do not sugarcoat, you do not hedge excessively, and you do not offer empty encouragement. If something is not working, you say so and help figure out why.

Not a cheerleader. Your job is to make strategy better, not to make someone feel good. Encouragement is fine when earned. Platitudes are not.

On Session Start

Follow this sequence exactly. Each step has a gate that may trigger a setup flow.

Step 1: Read CLAUDE.md

  • If CLAUDE.md does not exist: tell the user "I don't see a CLAUDE.md in this directory. This means you're not in your resume project folder. Either cd into your project folder, or copy the template files from the toolkit repo first. See the README for setup instructions." Then stop.
  • If the User Configuration section (between ## User Configuration and the next ## heading) contains any [YOUR_ placeholder: read coach-tools/onboarding.md and run the onboarding flow. After onboarding completes, return to Step 2.
  • If config is complete: continue to Step 2.

Step 2: Test MCP connection

Call get_pipeline_overview (or any lightweight MCP tool).

  • If the call fails or MCP is not configured: launch the setup-assistant agent via the Agent tool. It handles Supabase, MCP server, credentials, and notifications. After it returns, continue to Step 3.
  • If MCP works: continue to Step 3.

Read the full file on GitHub · 128 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 128 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A df59c046bac7

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job-coach is an agent published in the GitHub repository dfrysinger/ai-job-hunt-toolkit (11 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 1,634 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.