finalize-resume

finalize-resume — tailored resume → fitted export

Flow 4 of the composable resume workflow. Run this after tailor-resume has already produced a tailored resume for the active job. This flow owns the final fit pass through perfect, then the rendered artifact pass through export-resume.

It does not prepare the master resume, ingest a job, learn terminology, or apply tailoring updates. It only fits and exports the already-tailored resume.

Prerequisites

Run the shared Prerequisites gate — ../_shared/prerequisites.md.

• Required inputs: a tailored ResumeDocument JSON and an active_job JobDescription JSON.
• If no tailored resume exists: STOP and run tailor-resume first.
• If no active job exists: STOP and run ingest-job first.
• If the resume JSON is missing: STOP and run parse-resume, then the preparation and tailoring flows before finalizing.

The walkthrough

1. perfect. Run perfect with resume-tool fit against the tailored resume and active job. Use either the decision-driven path or explicit --auto-fit. For decision-driven trims, preserve the explicit decision/accounting behavior: removals must be accepted by the user or ranked-budget-accounted automated drops, compressions must pass the claim gate, and deferred items remain reported rather than invented or forced.
2. export-resume. Run export-resume after perfect writes the fitted resume. Export enforces the rendered max_pages HARD gate. Fit is not submission-ready until export passes: rendered output is authoritative; perfect may warn or fit to budgets, but it does not replace the export page gate.

How to invoke

CLI

resume-tool fit --root . [--job <jobs/job.json>] [--output {json,text,md}]
resume-tool fit --root . [--job <jobs/job.json>] --auto-fit [--output {json,text,md}]
resume-tool export --format {pdf,docx} [--out PATH] [--resume <resume.json>]