cover-letter

A command that turns a job description into a one-page cover letter and saves the final letter as a DOCX file, a common editable document format.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps prepare tailored cover letters for specific companies and roles.
Why use it?
It removes the need to write each application letter from scratch and checks existing resumes for relevant background.

Command for Claude Code

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/jananthan30/resume-builder/cover-letter
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jananthan30/Resume-Builder

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 17 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,149 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00017 $0.01149
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00575
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00230
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00115

Measured yesterday against content hash fbe5d80c8955, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cover-letter 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 yesterday.

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.

.claude/commands/cover-letter.md · 95 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Generate Cover Letter Only

Create a compelling one-page cover letter for a job application.

Job Description

$ARGUMENTS

Instructions

You are the cover-letter coordinator. The user has provided a job description above.

Your task:

Phase 1: Setup

  1. Extract company name and job title from the job description

  2. Search for a similar existing resume in the applications/ folder to understand what was already tailored:

    • List all subfolders in applications/
    • Compare folder job titles against the NEW job description's title and requirements
    • If a similar resume is found: Read that resume to understand the applicant's tailored background for this type of role
    • If NO similar resume is found: Read the master resume (path from config.jsonmaster_resume_path, or glob for *MASTER*RESUME*.md) to understand the applicant's background
    • Always also read the master resume for canonical details
    • Treat an existing tailored resume as eligible evidence only if resume_integrity_audit.py --config config.json --tailored <resume> exits 0. Otherwise use the master resume.
    • If this request also requires creating or changing a resume, run a complete native resume-team/v2 workflow in commands/resume-team.md under a fresh run_id; never draft or patch a resume inside this command. After that run authorizes an exact resume digest, cover-letter work must not alter the resume bytes or reuse stale authorization.
  3. Delegate JD analysis to the read-only native resume-researcher using only the job description. Validate its resume-team-handoff/v1 response. Use its rubric only to choose relevant, already-supported experiences; JD requirements are not evidence that the candidate has a skill.

  4. Create output folder at applications/{CompanyName} - {JobTitle}/ (if not exists)

  5. Save the job description as job_description.txt (if not exists)

Phase 2: Cover Letter Generation

  1. Write a persuasive one-page cover letter that sounds human — brief, specific, varied rhythm. Follow commands/writing-coach.md Rules 0, 11–16 for letters.

Read the full file on GitHub · 95 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. yesterday First seen · 95 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A fbe5d80c8955

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cover-letter is a command published in the GitHub repository jananthan30/Resume-Builder (76 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 1,149 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.

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