job-search-mcp: Instructions file for Codex

AGENTS.md

job-search-mcp AGENTS.md is an instructions file for Codex, OpenCode from OmriH-Elister/job-search-mcp. It costs 742 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A project instruction file for an automated job-search system that scans roles, filters matches, drafts applications, and waits for cover-letter approval.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to configure candidate data, scan listings, reject false positives, draft cover letters, and submit approved applications.
Why use it?
It defines the workflow and exclusions so the automation can avoid duplicate applications, unsuitable roles, and non-job pages.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Written for Codex and OpenCode: the file is AGENTS.md. Also seen: mentions AGENTS.md.

This is OmriH-Elister/job-search-mcp's own configuration. It tells Codex and OpenCode how to work on job-search-mcp itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything job-search-mcp configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to OmriH-Elister/job-search-mcp. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OmriH-Elister/job-search-mcp/main/AGENTS.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OmriH-Elister/job-search-mcp

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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 $0.00742 $0.00742
Opus 5 $0.00371 $0.00371
Sonnet 5 $0.00148 $0.00148
Haiku 4.5 $0.00074 $0.00074

Measured 11d ago against content hash c799716e2b86, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

job-search-mcp AGENTS.md 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 11d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

AGENTS.md · 86 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 86 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md - Job Search Harness

Operating spec for the automated job search pipeline. Authoritative. If this file and conversational context disagree, ask.

All candidate-specific data (identity, target roles, seed list, exclusions) lives in config.json — see config.example.json. Nothing personal belongs in this file.


Goal

Keep a steady flow of applications going to well-matched roles with minimal manual effort, gated on a single human decision: cover letter approval. Everything else — scanning, matching, filtering, drafting, submitting — is automated.

The pipeline is NOT paused for in-flight offers; it runs full-tilt regardless of interview status.


Scan workflow

After a scan, silently reject:

  1. Companies already applied to (see data/previously_applied.json)
  2. Lateral moves — role tiers the candidate has configured as below target
  3. False positives — product pages, marketing URLs, non-job pages

For each genuinely new match:

  1. Draft the cover letter immediately
  2. Display it to the candidate
  3. Pause ONLY for letter confirmation

Do NOT ask "want me to approve these?" and do NOT list matches separately from their letters. Once a letter is confirmed, submit immediately (ATS, falling back to email).

Zero-match runs: if a full scan yields no genuinely new matches after filtering, automatically research and add 5 new relevant companies to config.json company_seed_list before ending the run. Focus on categories adjacent to the configured targets (startups, MSSPs, consulting firms, larger firms with local offices) that are not already listed. The pipeline treats "no findings" as a coverage gap, not a success state.


Excluded companies

Configured in config.json (current employer and any others the candidate lists). Never apply to an excluded company, even on a strong match.


Infrastructure

Item Value
Root repo directory (scripts derive paths from their own location)
Image job-search-mcp:latest
Data volume <root>\data -> /data (nightly AND MCP server must share this)
CV volume JOB_SEARCH_CV_DIR env var -> /cvs:ro (defaults to <root>\cvs)
Scheduled task JobSearchNightlyScan, daily 22:00
Wrapper run_nightly.ps1
Seed list company_seed_list in config.json

Read the full file on GitHub · 86 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. 11d ago First seen · 86 lines · 742 tokens per session scan A c799716e2b86

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job-search-mcp AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository OmriH-Elister/job-search-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 742 tokens to every session, about $0.0037 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 2026-08-31.

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