cover-letter

cover-letter is a skill for Claude Code from laboramus-ai/laboramus-ai-claude-plugin. It costs 51 tokens per session (523 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A two-stage workflow for writing a job-specific cover letter. It first prepares a strategy brief for review, then writes the letter in the language used by the job posting.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when applying for a specific job and you have the job posting and candidate profile available.
Why use it?
It separates fact-checking and emphasis from the final writing, reducing the chance of sending a letter with the wrong claims or tone.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the laboramus-ai plugin — 11 skills, 2 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it when applying for a specific job and you have the job posting and candidate profile available.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/laboramus-ai/laboramus-ai-claude-plugin/cover-letter
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 laboramus-ai/laboramus-ai-claude-plugin --skill cover-letter
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/laboramus-ai/laboramus-ai-claude-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install laboramus-ai, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 2 agents.

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Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 523 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 $0.00051 $0.00523
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00262
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00105
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00052

Measured 12d ago against content hash 5131f5bd1c8b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, 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 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/cover-letter/SKILL.md · 29 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 29 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Laboramus — Cover Letter

Produce a tailored cover letter via two stages, using two sub-agents. The letter is written in the job posting's language; the brief and your conversation are in the user's language.

Prerequisites

  • Locate the current application folder per ../../references/conventions.md §1.
  • job-posting.md and profile/candidate-profile.md must exist. If the profile is missing, stop and ask the user to build it (build-profile).
  • Existing analyses/ (employer, role-requirements, fit-comparison) are used if present, but are NOT required — the strategist short-circuits and derives what it needs from the posting + profile.

Step A — Strategy brief (review gate)

Dispatch the strategist sub-agent. It writes strategy-brief.md (candidate facts, top 5–7 arguments, tone, three-part narrative, major gaps, personality only-if-it-helps) and stops.

Then SHOW the brief to the user and pause: "Review and correct anything — facts, emphasis, tone. The letter will be in . Say 'write the letter' when ready." Let the user edit strategy-brief.md or tell you changes. This is the human checkpoint — do not skip it.

Step B — Write

Once the user approves, dispatch the writer sub-agent. It reads the (possibly edited) strategy-brief.md and writes cover-letter.md: plain text, 300–350 words, three-part structure, banned-word list enforced for the posting's language, no repetition, strong opening hook.

After

  • Show the letter. Offer revisions (the user can ask for tone tweaks, shortening, different emphasis — re-run the writer).
  • Update status.json: steps.coverLetter, updatedAt — per ../../references/status-schema.md.
  • Offer interview-prep as a natural next step.

Standalone use

If the user jumps straight to "write me a cover letter for this job" with only a posting + profile, run A then B directly — the strategist handles the missing analyses. Offer to run the full employer/role/fit analyses too if they want richer results.

Read the full file on GitHub · 29 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 · 29 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A 5131f5bd1c8b

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cover-letter is a skill published in the GitHub repository laboramus-ai/laboramus-ai-claude-plugin (2 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 523 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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