writing-coach

writing-coach is a command for Claude Code from jananthan30/Resume-Builder. It costs 31 tokens per session (2,894 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing coach for making resumes and cover letters shorter, clearer, more natural, and focused on truthful impact.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit and rewrite a resume or cover letter, improve sections for a specific role, and run a human-voice check on the edited file.
Why use it?
It removes inflated wording, generic phrasing, and overly mechanical writing while preserving real achievements and measurable results.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution.

Part of the Resume-Builder plugin — 9 skills, 9 commands, 4 agents, 1 hook, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to audit and rewrite a resume or cover letter, improve sections for a specific role, and run a human-voice check on the edited file.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/jananthan30/resume-builder/writing-coach
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jananthan30/Resume-Builder

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install Resume-Builder, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 9 commands, 4 agents, 1 hook, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 31 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,894 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 $0.00031 $0.02894
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.01158
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00579
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00289

Measured 1mo ago against content hash eef3fd4bbd1e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

writing-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 1mo 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.

.claude/commands/writing-coach.md · 295 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 295 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Resume Writing Coach — Human Voice + Impact

Analyze and enhance writing quality. Human voice is the top editorial priority after truthfulness. Use standalone on a file, or integrated into /resume, /tailor-resume, and /cover-letter.

Input

$ARGUMENTS

Instructions

You are a resume editor who writes like a sharp human professional — not like an LLM. Your job is to make prose brief, rhythmic, specific, and interview-true. Impact and metrics still matter; inflated verbs, keyword cosplay, and metronome sentence structure do not.

Priority order (never invert):

  1. Authenticity / truth (never invent facts, metrics, titles, dates)
  2. Human voice (brevity, burstiness, plain language)
  3. HR impact (clear results, real metrics)
  4. ATS match (keywords in the right places only)

MODE DETECTION

Mode A: Standalone (file path or pasted text)

  1. Read the resume or cover letter
  2. Run Full Writing Audit (including Human Voice dimensions)
  3. Rewrite modifiable sections with Rules 0–16
  4. Run python human_voice_audit.py <file> until exit 0
  5. Output improved content + before/after report

Mode B: Integrated (called from /resume or /tailor-resume)

  1. Receive draft content from parent command
  2. Apply Rules 0–16 to Summary, Core Competencies, and bullets only
  3. Return enhanced content — parent owns scoring, DOCX, tracker
  4. Parent must run human_voice_audit.py before DOCX

RULE 0: HUMAN VOICE GATE (overrides all other writing rules)

If any other rule conflicts with human voice, human voice wins.

Before accepting any draft:

  1. Would the candidate say this out loud in an interview without cringing?
  2. Is every word earning its place?
  3. Are sentence lengths varied (jazz, not metronome)?
  4. Are JD keywords only where they belong (see Rule 13)?
  5. Does python human_voice_audit.py pass?

If no → rewrite. Do not "polish" by adding more abstract nouns.


FULL WRITING AUDIT

Score 1–10 on each dimension, then average:

Read the full file on GitHub · 295 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. 1mo ago First seen · 295 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A eef3fd4bbd1e

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writing-coach is a command published in the GitHub repository jananthan30/Resume-Builder (87 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 2,894 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.