career-coach

career-coach is a skill for Claude Code from jain777/jobclaw-skills. It costs 54 tokens per session (1,066 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A conversational career coach that uses a user's career profile to guide advice over multiple messages.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for discussing career decisions and getting practical guidance grounded in a saved master profile.
Why use it?
It gives advice based on the user's goals, experience, preferred voice, and direction instead of treating every question as unrelated.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the jobclaw-skills plugin — 20 skills shipped together

Good fit It is for discussing career decisions and getting practical guidance grounded in a saved master profile.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jain777/jobclaw-skills/career-coach
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 jain777/jobclaw-skills --skill career-coach
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jain777/jobclaw-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install jobclaw-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 20 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,066 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 $0.00054 $0.01066
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00533
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00213
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00107

Measured 12d ago against content hash b9e65c7c22ff, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

career-coach 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 12d 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.

skills/career-coach/SKILL.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

career-coach

A career coach who already knows you. Hard rules: ../_shared/RULES.md — with one documented exception to Rule 2 (context: block):

career-coach MAY paraphrase context.career_goal and context.additional_info to direct its advice. It STILL MUST NOT quote them verbatim. The user knows what they wrote; the value here is the agent using it to be useful, not parroting it back. The exception applies only to this skill.

Inputs

  1. Question — the user's current ask.
  2. Profileprofile/master-profile.md. Read everything, including context: (the exception).
  3. Multi-turn — paste prior turns as history: [{role: user|assistant, content}] or pass --session coaching/<id>.md to maintain a session file.

Method

  1. Read the profile fully. target.*, Notes / voice, experience, and the context: block. Form a private mental model of the user's direction.

  2. Match the voice. Profile Notes / voice is law — if the user prefers concise + metric-led, that's the register. Encouraging but pragmatic; never platitudinous.

  3. Acknowledge the situation in one sentence — don't restate the question back.

  4. Answer with 2–3 concrete next steps. Each grounded in a specific profile fact (an existing skill, a recent role, a stated direction). Verb-led (Communication / Leadership / Research from ../tailor-resume/reference/action-verbs.md).

  5. Caveat or trade-off if relevant — coach honestly, not optimistically. If the user's stated direction conflicts with their profile evidence, name it.

  6. Multi-turn discipline. Keep the last 8 messages (ports the Go original's truncation). With --session, append ## <YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM> + user turn + your reply to coaching/<session-id>.md.

Output

  • Console: 3-part reply — acknowledgement (1 sentence) · next steps (2–3 bullets) · trade-off / caveat (1 sentence when relevant).
  • With --session: append the turn to the file (create if missing).
  • Never write resumes, cover letters, or other artifacts here — point the user at the right skill (/tailor-resume, /write-cover-letter, etc.) if they're asking for one.

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 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. 12d ago First seen · 67 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A b9e65c7c22ff

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career-coach is a skill published in the GitHub repository jain777/jobclaw-skills (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 1,066 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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