ww-scrape-jobs

ww-scrape-jobs is a skill for Codex from jerryzhang1011/waterlooworks-application-plugins. It costs 129 tokens per session (989 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for collecting WaterlooWorks co-op job descriptions into individual Markdown files. WaterlooWorks is the University of Waterloo’s co-op job system, and Markdown is a plain-text format for structured documents.

In plain words
What is it for?
Scraping WaterlooWorks job postings and saving them under the repository’s jds folder with the existing cycle format.
Why use it?
It avoids copying job postings one by one and keeps them in a consistent folder and file format. It uses the user’s logged-in Chrome session to access the listings.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Good fit Scraping WaterlooWorks job postings and saving them under the repository’s jds folder with the existing cycle format.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jerryzhang1011/waterlooworks-application-plugins/ww-scrape-jobs
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 jerryzhang1011/waterlooworks-application-plugins --skill ww-scrape-jobs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jerryzhang1011/waterlooworks-application-plugins

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 129 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 989 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 $0.00129 $0.00989
Opus 5 $0.00064 $0.00495
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00198
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00099

Measured 12d ago against content hash 3d11c78003d3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ww-scrape-jobs 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/validate_cycle_folder.js, scripts/write_jds_from_scrape_json.js), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

plugins/waterlooworks-jobs-codex/skills/ww-scrape-jobs/SKILL.md · 47 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 47 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

WaterlooWorks JD Scraper

Use this project-only skill to scrape WaterlooWorks Full-Cycle Service job postings into a folder under jds/ (a date-named folder by default) as individual Markdown files named <job id> - <job title>.md.

Workflow

  1. Choose the output folder under jds/:
    • Default the folder name to today's date in YYYY-M-D format with no zero-padding (e.g. jds/2026-6-26), matching the existing sibling folders. Read today's date from the session/system context.
    • If the user names a specific folder or cycle (e.g. "cycle 3" -> jds/cycle3, or "save to jds/2026-7-01"), use exactly that and do not reinterpret it.
    • Create the folder if it does not exist; this <folder> is used in every path below.
  2. Inspect existing output format before writing:
    • Read one or two files from jds/cycle1/.
    • Preserve the same summary table and ## section style.
  3. Use Chrome for WaterlooWorks because it depends on the user's logged-in session.
    • Load the Chrome control skill if available.
    • Open https://waterlooworks.uwaterloo.ca/myAccount/co-op/full/jobs.htm.
    • Choose the WaterlooWorks filter before scraping:
      • If the user did not specify a filter, tell them the default is For my program / My Program and apply the My Program quick filter.
      • If the user requested a different filter, keyword search, or filter combination, apply that instead and do not also force My Program unless they asked for it.
      • When reporting progress, name the filter or search criteria being used so the user knows they can request another filter in a future scrape.
  4. Read references/chrome-scrape-workflow.md before scraping.
    • It contains the current WaterlooWorks selectors, modal extraction flow, pagination checks, and the browser-side snippet that saves a scrape JSON file under /private/tmp.
    • That main snippet targets a Playwright / Node REPL (tab.playwright, node:fs). If you are running in Claude in Chrome (the in-page javascript_tool, with no Playwright and no filesystem), follow the reference's ## Claude-in-Chrome (in-page) variant section instead — run the scrape loop in-page and exfiltrate the JSON via a blob download.
  5. Convert the scrape JSON into Markdown:
    • Run node .codex/skills/ww-scrape-jobs/scripts/write_jds_from_scrape_json.js --input /private/tmp/waterlooworks-<folder>-scrape.json --out jds/<folder> (the --out directory can be any folder, including a date-named one).
  6. Validate the output:
    • Run node .codex/skills/ww-scrape-jobs/scripts/validate_cycle_folder.js jds/<folder> --expected <count>.
    • Also sample the first and last generated files with sed.

Read the full file on GitHub · 47 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files 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. 12d ago First seen · 47 lines · 129 tokens per session scan A 3d11c78003d3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ww-scrape-jobs is a skill published in the GitHub repository jerryzhang1011/waterlooworks-application-plugins (1 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 129 tokens to every session and 989 once invoked, about $0.0006 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.