What is ai-job-search CLAUDE.md?

Project instructions for CareerForge, an open-source tool that helps people prepare and track job applications with AI. They define the project's goals, identity, and documentation sources.

Use them when planning features, locating the right documentation, or making implementation decisions in the ai-job-search repository.

They keep development aligned with the project's own requirements instead of copied code or assumptions from a similar job-search project.

How suraj-davariya/ai-job-search configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to suraj-davariya/ai-job-search. 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/suraj-davariya/ai-job-search/main/CLAUDE.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/suraj-davariya/ai-job-search

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md

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Per session 2,470 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 2,470 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.02470	$0.02470
Opus 5	$0.01235	$0.01235
Sonnet 5	$0.00494	$0.00494
Haiku 4.5	$0.00247	$0.00247

Measured 12d ago against content hash e23e16af307d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ai-job-search CLAUDE.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 12d 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.md · 213 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 213 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md — Project Memory & Agent Instructions

Identity

This is CareerForge (working directory: ai-job-search) — an open-source, AI-powered job application framework designed to work for job seekers anywhere in the world, regardless of country, language, or local job market. It is built with Claude Code.

The product is positioned against MadsLorentzen/ai-job-search (MIT) — a mature, Denmark-focused predecessor with the same drafter-reviewer + LaTeX architecture. CareerForge's wedge is country-agnostic from the core, a first-class tracking dashboard, and a cost-aware (opt-out) reviewer. See .reference/competitive-analysis/madslorentzen-ai-job-search.md for the full study.

Prime Directive

Build from the docs, not from external code. The canonical source of truth for what this product does, how it is architected, and how to build it lives in /docs. Every implementation decision flows from those documents. You never copy or reproduce code from other projects.

Documentation Map

Read these in order when you need to understand the product:

Requirements → docs/requirements/00-index.md The complete functional and non-functional specification. Every requirement has a REQ-#### or NFR-#### ID.
Architecture → docs/architecture/00-index.md Technology stack, component design, data model, API contracts, security model. Every element has an ARCH-#### ID and traces to the requirements it satisfies.
Plan → docs/plan/00-index.md Milestones, work breakdown, sequencing, and the task backlog. Each task references REQ- and ARCH- IDs.
Development → docs/development/00-index.md Coding standards, project structure, local setup, contribution workflow, and implementation guides per component.
Testing → docs/testing/00-index.md Test strategy, test plans, test case catalog (TC-#### IDs tracing to REQ-####), CI gates, and QA checklists.

Read the full file on GitHub · 213 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.

12d ago First seen · 213 lines · 2,470 tokens per session scan A e23e16af307d

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ai-job-search CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository suraj-davariya/ai-job-search (22 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,470 tokens to every session, about $0.0123 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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