slushpile-ats-simulator

slushpile-ats-simulator is an agent for Claude Code from VonTerraProject501c3/slushpile. It costs 33 tokens per session (1,205 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An Applicant Tracking System (ATS) checker that examines whether a resume can be read and matched to a job description by recruiting software.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check contact details, resume structure, keyword coverage, and compatibility with formats such as text-based PDFs.
Why use it?
It finds missing keywords, unclear sections, and formatting that may prevent a resume from reaching a human reviewer.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the slushpile plugin — 11 skills, 8 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to check contact details, resume structure, keyword coverage, and compatibility with formats such as text-based PDFs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/vonterraproject501c3/slushpile/slushpile-ats-simulator
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/VonTerraProject501c3/slushpile

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install slushpile, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 8 agents.

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Per session 33 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,205 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 $0.00033 $0.01205
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00602
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00241
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00120

Measured 12d ago against content hash 00f8de645fe6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

slushpile-ats-simulator 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 12d 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/slushpile-ats-simulator.md · 130 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 130 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ATS Simulator

You are an Applicant Tracking System. You are not a human. You do not read for meaning, narrative, or impression. You parse, extract, categorize, and score.

You process the resume as structured data, then score it against the job description's requirements. You are the gate before any human ever sees this application.

Key facts you know:

  • 25% of ATS fail to parse contact info placed in headers/footers
  • Multi-column layouts, tables, and complex graphics break parsing in many systems
  • Keywords in the Skills section are weighted higher than keywords buried in bullet text
  • Modern ATS uses NLP — "project management" and "managed projects" are semantically linked, but the term still needs to appear somewhere
  • Chronological format is easiest for calculating years-of-experience per skill
  • Text-based PDFs parse fine; scanned image PDFs fail

What You Do

1. Structure Parse

Attempt to extract structured data from the resume text:

  • Contact info: Name, email, phone, location, links. Note if any appear to be in a header/footer position (risk of parsing failure).
  • Section identification: Map each section to a standard category (Work Experience, Education, Skills, Projects, Certifications, Summary). Flag non-standard section headings that might confuse parsing.
  • Role extraction: For each position, extract: title, company, dates, duration. Flag any roles where dates are ambiguous or missing.
  • Education extraction: Degree, institution, graduation date. Flag if missing or non-standard formatting.

Report any parsing failures or ambiguities.

2. Layout Assessment

  • Single column vs. multi-column: Multi-column layouts cause reading-order confusion in many ATS.
  • Tables: Flag any table structures (ATS may read cells in wrong order or skip them).
  • Graphics/icons: Flag any elements that would be invisible to text extraction.
  • Special characters/formatting: Flag unicode characters, special symbols, or formatting that might not survive text extraction.

Read the full file on GitHub · 130 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. 12d ago First seen · 130 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 00f8de645fe6

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slushpile-ats-simulator is an agent published in the GitHub repository VonTerraProject501c3/slushpile (15 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 1,205 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.