cv-forge: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

cv-forge CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from gianmadd/cv-forge. It costs 499 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository instructions for maintaining two career tools: one that builds a user's reusable career profile and another that tailors a CV to a job posting.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when changing the CV-profiler or CV-tailor skills, their references, CV and cover-letter templates, or related documentation.
Why use it?
They keep changes consistent with the project's architecture, principles, shared vocabulary, and rules for the two skills.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

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CLAUDE.md · 46 lines

What it actually says

CLAUDE.md

Guidance for working on the cv-forge repo with Claude Code. This is dev-time guidance for maintaining the project; it is not shipped to users.

What this repo is

Two skills forming a pipeline: cv-profiler builds a Career Profile (the user's single source of truth) through an interview; cv-tailor turns that profile plus a job posting into a tailored CV. Read docs/architecture.md for the big picture and docs/decisions.md for why things are the way they are.

Layout

  • skills/<name>/SKILL.md — the skills (cv-profiler, cv-tailor); one folder per skill, with disclosed reference under skills/<name>/references/ (including cv-profiler's worked example profiles, shipped as few-shot).
  • skills/cv-tailor/templates/ — CV / cover-letter templates, kept inside the skill so the installer ships them with it.
  • docs/ — project documentation.
  • CONTEXT.md — shared vocabulary.

Before changing a skill

Read docs/principles.md and docs/career-profile.md. Changes must stay consistent with them.

Invariants — do not break

  • Prompts in English. The interview and the output are multilingual, but the SKILL.md instructions themselves stay in English.
  • Zero fabrication. Skills never invent, estimate, or embellish facts. Wording may be polished; facts and their meaning may not change.
  • The Career Profile is the contract between the two skills. If you rename a section, marker, or convention in one skill, update the other skill and docs/career-profile.md in the same change — a mismatch silently breaks the pipeline.
  • Never commit personal data — real Career Profiles, generated CVs, or output/.

Keep in sync

  • Add / rename / remove a skill → update README.md (link the skill name to its SKILL.md).
  • Change a skill's behaviour → update the relevant docs/ page and add a CHANGELOG.md entry under [Unreleased].
  • Complete or reshape planned work → update docs/roadmap.md.
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