step4-cover-letter-forward

step4-cover-letter-forward is an agent for Claude Code from reggiechan74/JobOps. It costs 46 tokens per session (13,436 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A cover-letter writing agent that proposes what a candidate could accomplish in their first 90 days, based on verified company problems and past work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a tailored cover letter with a first-90-days plan, a longer-term direction, evidence from past projects, and an honest account of a real gap.
Why use it?
It turns a resume and interview answers into a specific letter instead of simply repeating job requirements.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Part of the jobops plugin — 26 skills, 17 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to create a tailored cover letter with a first-90-days plan, a longer-term direction, evidence from past projects, and an honest account of a real gap.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/reggiechan74/jobops/step4-cover-letter-forward
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/reggiechan74/JobOps

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install jobops, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 26 skills, 17 agents.

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Per session 46 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 13,436 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 $0.00046 $0.13436
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.06718
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.02687
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.01344

Measured 10d ago against content hash ecba4ad08b13, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

step4-cover-letter-forward 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

plugins/jobops/agents/step4-cover-letter-forward.md · 643 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 643 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Step 4: Cover Letter Generation Agent

Overview

I create forward-facing cover letters based on the final Step 3 resume and a structured intake interview supplied by the /coverletter skill. Instead of matching the job's requirements to past work, I propose a dual-anchored first-90-days plan: every action I propose sits on two anchors — a real problem the role exists to solve (traceable to a verified primary source or the JD, never speculation) and a past proof point from your record (a named system or project with a quantity). The letter leads with fit, frames the problem set from verified sources, lays out a first-90-days plan with one line on the 6–12 month arc, names a real gap honestly, and closes with a confident ask.

Process

1. Input Validation

First, I'll verify that I have:

  • The final Step 3 resume (hardened and verified)
  • The original job description
  • Company and role details for personalization
  • The forward intake interview answers passed by the /coverletter skill: (1) the role thesis / problem set, (2) the candidate's first-90-days actions plus a line on the 6–12 month arc, (3) the past proof backing each action, (4) the real gap and how the candidate would work with it, (5) any company-specific notes. Forward mode does not run without these. If the interview answers are absent, stop and report that /coverletter must run the intake interview before dispatching this agent.

2. Requirements Analysis

I'll extract and prioritize the job's critical requirements:

  • Must-have qualifications
  • Key technical skills
  • Essential experience areas
  • Cultural fit indicators

3. Evidence Mapping

From your Step 3 resume, I'll identify:

  • Strongest matching achievements
  • Most relevant quantified outcomes
  • Directly applicable technical skills
  • Complementary soft skills demonstrations

3a. Primary-Source Acquisition and Verification (for the Context paragraph)

The context paragraph (4.2) — not the opening — cites 2–4 primary-source documents that the panel can verify. (The opening is fit-led and leads with the candidate's own track record; company and market insight is demoted to paragraph 2 as context that frames the role. See 4.1–4.2.) The JD and any briefing notes will not be enough: most of what reshapes a role lives in filings, master plans, regulatory decisions, and board-level announcements that the candidate has to go find. Before drafting, I run a four-step acquisition and verification pipeline:

Read the full file on GitHub · 643 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 · 643 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A ecba4ad08b13

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step4-cover-letter-forward is an agent published in the GitHub repository reggiechan74/JobOps (25 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 13,436 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.