cv-builder

cv-builder is a skill for Claude Code from larsboes/Axon. It costs 117 tokens per session (1,248 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for building a job-specific CV PDF from one master CV file. It selects existing content by profile and language rather than rewriting the CV.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create an English or German CV for a particular role or job application when the master CV is configured.
Why use it?
It avoids maintaining separate CV copies and helps keep applications consistent with the approved source file.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the cv plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it to create an English or German CV for a particular role or job application when the master CV is configured.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/larsboes/axon/cv-builder
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 larsboes/Axon --skill cv-builder
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/larsboes/Axon

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cv, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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Per session 117 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,248 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 $0.00117 $0.01248
Opus 5.5 $0.00047 $0.00499
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00023 $0.00250
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00125

Measured 2mo ago against content hash e240da6ed9e1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cv-builder 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 2mo 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.

Packs/cv/skills/cv-builder/SKILL.md · 75 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 75 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CV Builder

Drive the CV through $CV — the source of truth; this skill is the runbook. No content generation here: every build is a deterministic filter over the master file, never a rewrite.

This setup is not hardcoded. The actual CV content (name, employer, contact info) lives in $AXON_PERSONAL_ROOT/data/cv/master_cv.yaml, never in this skill or in Axon. If that file is missing, stop and tell the user to copy capabilities/cv/master_cv.schema.yaml there and fill it in — do not draft CV content yourself.

Variables

var value notes
$CV capabilities/cv/cv launcher, relative to $AXON_ROOT
$MASTER $AXON_PERSONAL_ROOT/data/cv/master_cv.yaml the one file to maintain; $CV refuses to run without it
$PROFILE one of $CV list-profiles' output e.g. swe, quant, consulting, general
$LANG en or de defaults to en if the user doesn't say

Workflow

  1. $CV list-profiles — read the actual tags currently defined (don't assume the list from memory; it's just data and changes as the master file changes).
  2. Match the user's ask to the closest tag:
    • A job posting/description or a stated role type ("SWE role", "consulting") → pick the closest existing tag from step 1's output.
    • Ambiguous, or nothing close enough → ask the user to pick from the actual list rather than guessing.
  3. Pick $LANG from what the user said (German posting/company → de; otherwise en unless told).
  4. $CV build --profile $PROFILE --lang $LANG → report the printed output path back to the user. Building every profile/lang at once: $CV build --all (optionally --all --lang de to restrict to one language). Iterating on the master file rather than producing one PDF: $CV watch --profile $PROFILE --lang $LANG recompiles on every save. Tell the user to open the PDF in a viewer that reloads on change (Preview, Skim, a browser tab) — watch blocks until they stop it.
  5. Never edit $MASTER on the user's behalf mid-conversation to "tailor" wording for a specific posting — that recreates the AI-tailoring flow this design deliberately left out. If the user wants new content, tell them to add it (with the right profiles: tags) to the master file themselves.

Read the full file on GitHub · 75 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. 2mo ago First seen · 75 lines · 117 tokens per session scan A e240da6ed9e1

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cv-builder is a skill published in the GitHub repository larsboes/Axon (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 117 tokens to every session and 1,248 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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