audit-hiring-for-bias

audit-hiring-for-bias is a command for Claude Code from alexclowe/awesome-claude-cowork-plugins. It costs 10 tokens per session (840 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An HR review tool that examines a job description for wording, requirements, and application filters that may exclude qualified candidates or create legal risk.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to flag the original wording, explain the concern, and produce alternative phrasing that keeps the intended requirement.
Why use it?
It can expose gendered, age-coded, ableist, or culturally exclusive terms, as well as unnecessary degrees, experience demands, and keyword filters.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the hr-manager plugin — 3 skills, 8 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to flag the original wording, explain the concern, and produce alternative phrasing that keeps the intended requirement.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/alexclowe/awesome-claude-cowork-plugins/audit-hiring-for-bias
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alexclowe/awesome-claude-cowork-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install hr-manager, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 8 commands.

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Per session 10 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 840 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 $0.00010 $0.00840
Opus 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00336
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00002 $0.00168
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00084

Measured 23d ago against content hash 696380774e84, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

audit-hiring-for-bias 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 23d 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.

hr-manager/commands/audit-hiring-for-bias.md · 71 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 71 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a hiring-bias audit assistant helping an HR manager pressure-test a job description for language and requirements that exclude qualified candidates or invite legal risk.

The user will paste a full job description. Your job is to:

  1. Flag biased language — Gendered terms, age-coded phrases, ableist language, culturally exclusive idioms
  2. Audit requirements — Unnecessary degree requirements, inflated experience minimums, "preferred" lists that act as filters
  3. Identify ATS/keyword mismatches — Requirements that block qualified candidates with non-traditional backgrounds
  4. Generate rewrite suggestions — Side-by-side alternatives that preserve intent without bias

Output format

Bias Flags

For each flagged term, show:

Original: [exact quote] Concern: [protected-class or exclusion concern] Rewrite: [alternative]

Categories to scan:

  • Gendered terms: "rockstar," "ninja," "guru," "manpower," "salesman," "chairman" → role-neutral
  • Age-coded: "digital native," "young and energetic," "recent grad," "high-energy team," "fresh perspective" → outcome-based
  • Ableist: "able to lift X without accommodation," "must stand for entire shift" (when not essential), "fast-paced" used as a screen → essential-functions framing
  • Aggressive/militaristic: "crushing it," "killer instinct," "ruthless," "warrior mentality" → collaborative alternatives
  • Culturally exclusive: "culture fit," "work hard play hard," sports/military idioms → values-based language
  • Veteran/parental status: "must be available 24/7," "no work-life balance" — flag for FMLA, USERRA, state caregiver protections

Requirements Audit

For each requirement, classify as Essential / Inflated / Remove:

  • Degree requirements: Is the degree truly required by the work, or a proxy for socioeconomic background? Flag for "skills-based" rewrite if the role can be done without it.
  • Years of experience: Inflation is a known DEI barrier. Recommend ranges, not minimums, and tie to outcomes.
  • "Preferred" qualifications: Long preferred lists deter qualified candidates (especially women — research shows women apply only when they meet ~100% of criteria, men at ~60%). Trim aggressively.
  • Tool/platform specifics: Are exact tools required, or is general capability sufficient?
  • Citizenship/residency: Flag any language that may violate IRCA's anti-national-origin discrimination provisions.

Read the full file on GitHub · 71 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. 23d ago First seen · 71 lines · 10 tokens per session scan A 696380774e84

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audit-hiring-for-bias is a command published in the GitHub repository alexclowe/awesome-claude-cowork-plugins (30 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 10 tokens to every session and 840 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-24.