writing-job-descriptions

writing-job-descriptions is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from cnfeat/top-pm-skills. It costs 42 tokens per session (883 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for writing job descriptions: public explanations of a role, its purpose, and the kind of person needed. It focuses on the progress the hire should make and what success looks like after 12 months.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define new roles, write hiring adverts, describe expected outcomes, and identify the few areas where a candidate must excel.
Why use it?
Job postings often become long lists of duties and requirements that do not show what the role is meant to achieve. This helps employers describe the important challenge and attract suitable candidates.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to define new roles, write hiring adverts, describe expected outcomes, and identify the few areas where a candidate must excel.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cnfeat/top-pm-skills/writing-job-descriptions
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 cnfeat/top-pm-skills --skill writing-job-descriptions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cnfeat/top-pm-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 883 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 $0.00042 $0.00883
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00441
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00177
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00088

Measured 9d ago against content hash 9faefdbbb40f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

writing-job-descriptions 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 9d 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.

参考skill/lenny-skills-main (2)/lenny-skills-main/skills/writing-job-descriptions/SKILL.md · 69 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 69 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Writing Job Descriptions

Help the user write effective job descriptions using frameworks and insights from 6 product leaders.

How to Help

When the user asks for help with job descriptions:

  1. Define success first - Ask what success looks like 12 months after the hire, not what tasks they'll do
  2. Identify the spike - Determine the one or two areas where this person needs to excel (not everything)
  3. Write for progress - Frame the role around the progress to be made, not a list of arbitrary tasks
  4. Consider the signal - Discuss whether the language attracts or repels the right candidates

Core Principles

Start with 12-month success

Jonathan Lowenhar: "Start with, it's 12 months later, you hired the person, 12 months have gone by, you're clinking champagne because of how great it's been. What's changed about the business?" Define success by business impact after one year, not a list of responsibilities.

Job descriptions are made up

Bob Moesta: "Job descriptions are made up. They're literally just made up - a list of stuff the manager wants plus stuff they don't want to do." Focus on the 'progress' the role enables rather than arbitrary feature requirements.

Identify where they should spike

Lauren Ipsen: "Trying to determine where this person should major and minor, where they should spike. Is this someone that's going to lean into design efforts or operate like a very senior PM?" Define specific competencies required rather than seeking a generalist who does everything.

Frame requirements as outcomes

Bob Moesta: "Don't tell me I need Excel, PowerPoint, and Word skills. Tell me what I'm going to do with those. Tell me you're going to need to build PowerPoints for executive alignment." Replace 'X years of experience' with specific capabilities that time is supposed to represent.

Iterate based on candidates

Jason Shah: "Taking a product mindset where I meet people and don't know exactly what role they're going to fill. A product mindset on hiring and iterating on it based on the candidates you're meeting." Treat job descriptions as iterative documents that evolve with market reality.

Read the full file on GitHub · 69 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 9d ago First seen · 69 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 9faefdbbb40f

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writing-job-descriptions is a skill published in the GitHub repository cnfeat/top-pm-skills (48 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 883 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.

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