start

start is a skill for Claude Code from benskamps/career-compass-mcp. It costs 44 tokens per session (548 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A setup guide for Career Compass, a tool for organising your work history and job search. It checks whether the tool is ready and can read a pasted résumé or LinkedIn experience.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check the installation, import career history, review what is already saved, or choose a first task such as checking a job, preparing for an interview, or reviewing an offer.
Why use it?
It gives a new user a clear first step instead of leaving them to guess how to begin. It also turns their career information into material for later job-search tasks.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the career-compass plugin — 9 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to check the installation, import career history, review what is already saved, or choose a first task such as checking a job, preparing for an interview, or reviewing an offer.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/benskamps/career-compass-mcp/start
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add benskamps/career-compass-mcp --skill start
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/benskamps/career-compass-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install career-compass, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 548 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 $0.00044 $0.00548
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00219
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00110
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00055

Measured 2d ago against content hash aec3699038f8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

start 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 2d 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.

plugin/skills/start/SKILL.md · 38 lines

What it actually says

The user ran the Career Compass start command. Follow the career-compass skill's "First contact" guidance.

  1. If the Career Compass tools are available, call check_setup (offline; do not pass checkForUpdates). If they are not, you are most likely in claude.ai chat: follow the career-compass skill's chat mode (no setup talk, no Node.js), and skip the saving steps below in favor of the Career Compass card.
  2. If they pasted a résumé and a posting, do the fit check: that is the start. If they pasted only a résumé below, give value first: three role titles at the level it supports today, each with its one line of evidence, and the two bullets a screener would skip and why. Then extract it with ingest_document and offer to save each section with save_career_section, asking about the vaguest claims as you go.
  3. If they pasted nothing and the KB is empty (or there are no tools), the whole reply is one first step: "Paste or attach your résumé (a PDF is fine) and one job you're considering, and I'll tell you how well you fit, the top two gaps, and what to fix before you apply." Then at most one line: they can say "show me a sample first" to see a fit check on the fictional Alex Rivera profile (see the career-compass skill). No list of features. If they pasted a Career Compass card, follow the skill's card guidance instead.
  4. If the KB is already filled in, say what is there in two lines and ask what they are working on: a posting, an interview, or an offer.

Keep it short. One question at a time. Slash commands work in Claude Code and Cowork; in claude.ai chat the user just asks in plain words.

$ARGUMENTS

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. 2d ago Changed · +4 lines · +14 tokens per session aec3699038f8
  2. 4d ago Changed · +8 lines 31b911b9a377
  3. 8d ago First seen · 26 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 21f04e0ffe59

Subscribe to this mod's changes

start is a skill published in the GitHub repository benskamps/career-compass-mcp (6 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 548 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-10-03.

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