upwork-proposal-writer

upwork-proposal-writer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from abullaisi/upwork-skills. It costs 115 tokens per session (1,937 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for drafting or reviewing Upwork proposals, which are cover letters for freelance job applications. It uses a structured method based on relevant experience, proof, and the client's request.

In plain words
What is it for?
Writing a proposal from an Upwork job post, reviewing an existing draft, selecting the closest portfolio examples, and identifying missing information.
Why use it?
It helps turn a job post and the user's real background into a focused proposal, while avoiding invented experience, results, or portfolio details.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Good fit Writing a proposal from an Upwork job post, reviewing an existing draft, selecting the closest portfolio examples, and identifying missing information.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/abullaisi/upwork-skills/upwork-proposal-writer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add abullaisi/upwork-skills --skill upwork-proposal-writer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/abullaisi/upwork-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 115 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,937 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Rogue Agent · line 3
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00115 $0.01937
Opus 5 $0.00057 $0.00968
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00387
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00194

Measured 11d ago against content hash 9d80fbdd93ac, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

upwork-proposal-writer 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.

upwork-proposal-writer/SKILL.md · 84 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 84 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Upwork Proposal Writer

Draft proposals the way a Top Rated Plus freelancer actually writes them, not the way template blogs say to. The method below was extracted from real winning proposals (design/dev niche, top 3% Upwork tier) and cross-checked against Upwork's own published guidance. Where the two disagree, this file says so.

Inputs you need before drafting

Ask for anything missing. Never invent these.

  1. The job post, pasted in full.
  2. The user's identity line facts: role, years of experience, niche specialization.
  3. 3-5 portfolio links or samples that match THIS job's niche. Matched proof beats impressive-but-unrelated proof. If the user gives you ten links, pick the closest 3-5 and say why.
  4. One relevant outcome they can claim (a shipped result, a metric, a client situation similar to this job). The outcome belongs in the credibility move. If the user can't supply one, draft without it and say so. Never invent one.
  5. Optional: rate intentions, availability, anything the client asked applicants to answer.

Profile shortcut: if a stored profile file exists (upwork-profile.md in the working directory or ~/.claude/), read identity, niche, links, and rate from it and ask only for what's missing or not stated concretely (a rate line that says "ask me" means ask). Never ask for what the file already answers.

Before drafting, check the job's core ask against the profile. If a major requirement sits outside what the profile actually covers, flag the stretch in one line before the draft. The draft itself only claims what's real.

Mode 1: Draft (primary)

The five moves, in order

Move 1: credibility line. One sentence: identity + years + niche. Example shape: "I'm a UI/UX designer with 5+ years specializing in SaaS dashboards." This is the first thing the client sees in the results-list preview, alongside the freelancer's photo, badges, rate, and Job Success Score. It has to establish fit in one line.

Move 1, no-history variant. A freelancer with no Upwork track record still has a credibility line; it just does not come from this platform. Build it from what is real: years in the craft anywhere, the work itself, a specialization. "I'm a UI/UX designer with 4 years on SaaS dashboards, new to Upwork and bringing the portfolio with me" is honest and reads far better than padding. Two rules. Never imply Upwork experience that does not exist, because the profile beside the proposal shows the truth and the gap reads as dishonesty. And never apologize for being new; state it once as a fact if at all, then spend the rest of the sentence on the specialization. The same applies to input 4: the relevant outcome can come from any client, employer, or personal project, and it is worth saying explicitly rather than leaving the user to assume Upwork-only.

Read the full file on GitHub · 84 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 · 84 lines · 115 tokens per session scan A 9d80fbdd93ac

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upwork-proposal-writer is a skill published in the GitHub repository abullaisi/upwork-skills (100 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 115 tokens to every session and 1,937 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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