job-seeker: Skill for Claude Code

.agents/skills/news/SKILL.md

news is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from galiprandi/job-seeker. It costs 32 tokens per session (7,623 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for reviewing job-application updates from Gmail, LinkedIn, and other platforms. It summarizes updates by priority, prepares reply drafts, checks them with you, and sends approved replies.

In plain words
What is it for?
Checking for new application updates, deciding which need attention, drafting responses, and following the user’s rules for follow-ups and outreach.
Why use it?
It brings application messages into one review process so important updates are easier to find and respond to. It also applies stored job-search and communication preferences during the review.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents); mentions AGENTS.md.

This is galiprandi/job-seeker's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on job-seeker itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything job-seeker configures →

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is node scripts/db.js "SELECT category, key, value, confidence, source FROM preferences WHERE user_id = <user_id> AND status = 'active' ORDER BY category, key".

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to galiprandi/job-seeker. 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/galiprandi/job-seeker/main/.agents/skills/news/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/galiprandi/job-seeker

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for news

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/galiprandi/job-seeker/news/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/galiprandi/job-seeker/news)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/galiprandi/job-seeker/news"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/galiprandi/job-seeker/news/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for news

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/galiprandi/job-seeker/news"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/galiprandi/job-seeker/news.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,623 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 Excessive Agency · line 136
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00032 $0.07623
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.03811
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.01525
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00762

Measured yesterday against content hash 0aec54653235, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

news 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 yesterday.

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.

.agents/skills/news/SKILL.md · 521 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 521 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

News

Trigger

Keyword: news

The user says news (or variants: "updates", "check", "any updates") and the full review routine is automatically triggered. No further instructions needed — the agent executes the entire flow from start to finish.

Also runs in parallel when the user launches an application.

Flow

0. Pre-flight

  • Verify active LinkedIn and Gmail sessions. If session closed → open browser with wrapper (see AGENTS.md "Browser session"): node scripts/browser.js open <url> --headed (Gold Rule 5) → notify user → wait for confirmation
  • Browser: always use node scripts/browser.js for open/close/goto. See AGENTS.md "Browser session" for details. Never call playwright-cli open directly, never open Chrome directly
  • Load active preferences (see memory skill):
    node scripts/db.js "SELECT category, key, value, confidence, source FROM preferences WHERE user_id = <user_id> AND status = 'active' ORDER BY category, key"
    
  • Load strategy (see AGENTS.md "Strategy levels"):
    node scripts/db.js "SELECT data->'strategy' AS strategy FROM users WHERE id = <user_id>"
    
    Respect: follow_up_days (days before sending follow-up), cold_outreach (whether to send cold messages to recruiters). If news not in sources_active, warn the user

1. Collect updates (in parallel)

Parallelization strategy: when subagents are available, dispatch background subagents (subagent_general) per source to collect updates simultaneously. Each subagent returns a structured list of items (sender, subject, snippet, category guess, action items, scheduling links if any). The main agent then merges and classifies. If subagents are not available (e.g: single-session constraint), fall back to sequential collection.

Subagent dispatch pattern:

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  Main agent (orchestrator)                          │
│  - Loads preferences, strategy, availability        │
│  - Dispatches subagents in parallel                 │
│  - Merges results, classifies, presents summary     │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  Subagent A (Gmail)     Subagent B (LinkedIn)       │
│  - Inbox unread         - Messages unread           │
│  - Job Alerts folder    - Notifications             │
│  - Extract sched links  - Saved Jobs                │
│  - Returns JSON list    - Returns JSON list         │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  Subagent C (DB)        Subagent D (Sched links)    │
│  - Pending follow-ups   - Opens each Calendly/SR   │
│  - Pipeline stages      - Filters by availability   │
│  - Returns JSON list    - Returns slot table        │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Read the full file on GitHub · 521 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. yesterday Changed 0aec54653235
  2. 12d ago First seen · 521 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 05b27ae1579c

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news is a skill published in the GitHub repository galiprandi/job-seeker (26 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 7,623 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 2026-08-30.