cover-letter

cover-letter is a skill for Claude Code from jananthan30/Resume-Builder. It costs 73 tokens per session (1,240 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill that creates a one-page cover letter from a job description and produces the final file as a DOCX document. A cover letter is a short letter explaining why a job applicant fits a specific role.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when applying for a job and you need only a customized cover letter, including one that accompanies an already-tailored résumé.
Why use it?
It reduces the work of turning a job description and an existing résumé into a tailored letter. It also checks the letter for a natural human voice before creating the document.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the Resume-Builder plugin — 9 skills, 9 commands, 4 agents, 1 hook, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it when applying for a job and you need only a customized cover letter, including one that accompanies an already-tailored résumé.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jananthan30/resume-builder/cover-letter
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add jananthan30/Resume-Builder --skill cover-letter
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jananthan30/Resume-Builder

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install Resume-Builder, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 9 commands, 4 agents, 1 hook, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,240 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: 2 findings, 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 Agent Snooping · line 32
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
  • medium Agent Snooping · line 42
    Skill enumerates or reads other installed skills. Access to other skills' SKILL.md files or the skills directory reveals prompt instructions, capabilities, and secrets that should be invisible to peer skills.
    Fix: Remove all code or instructions that list or read other skills' files or directories. Skills should operate independently; cross-skill access is a privilege escalation.
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 $0.00073 $0.01240
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00620
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00248
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00124

Measured 11d ago against content hash ba36a7826219, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cover-letter 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 11d 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/cover-letter/SKILL.md · 98 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 98 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Generate Cover Letter Only

Create a compelling one-page cover letter for a job application.

Job Description

The user provides the target job description when invoking this skill; treat that text as the exact JD throughout.

Instructions

You are the cover-letter coordinator. The user has provided a job description.

Your task:

Phase 1: Setup

  1. Extract company name and job title from the job description

  2. Search for a similar existing resume in the applications/ folder to understand what was already tailored:

    • List all subfolders in applications/
    • Compare folder job titles against the NEW job description's title and requirements
    • If a similar resume is found: Read that resume to understand the applicant's tailored background for this type of role
    • If NO similar resume is found: Read the master resume (path from config.jsonmaster_resume_path, or glob for *MASTER*RESUME*.md) to understand the applicant's background
    • Always also read the master resume for canonical details
    • Treat an existing tailored resume as eligible evidence only if resume_integrity_audit.py --config config.json --tailored <resume> exits 0. Otherwise use the master resume.
    • If this request also requires creating or changing a resume, run a complete native resume-team/v2 workflow (see the resume-team skill, skills/resume-team/SKILL.md) under a fresh run_id; never draft or patch a resume inside this skill. After that run authorizes an exact resume digest, cover-letter work must not alter the resume bytes or reuse stale authorization.
  3. Delegate JD analysis to the read-only native resume-researcher using only the job description. Validate its resume-team-handoff/v1 response. Use its rubric only to choose relevant, already-supported experiences; JD requirements are not evidence that the candidate has a skill.

  4. Create output folder at applications/{CompanyName} - {JobTitle}/ (if not exists)

  5. Save the job description as job_description.txt (if not exists)

Read the full file on GitHub · 98 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. 11d ago First seen · 98 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A ba36a7826219

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cover-letter is a skill published in the GitHub repository jananthan30/Resume-Builder (83 stars, last pushed 27d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 1,240 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.

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