What is resume-builder?

A resume and CV writing guide for creating, reviewing, and tailoring job applications. It covers structure, wording, formatting, and ATS software, which employers use to scan applications.

Use it to write a resume from scratch, improve an existing one, match it to a job description, or prepare related application materials such as a cover letter.

It helps turn scattered work history into clear, relevant evidence for both recruiters and application-screening software.

resume-builder — Skill for Claude Code and Cursor by mamahoos

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 mamahoos/dot-files --skill resume-builder

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mamahoos/dot-files

Made for: Claude Code, Cursor.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 183 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 2,106 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00183	$0.02106
Opus 5.5	$0.00073	$0.00842
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00037	$0.00421
Haiku 4.5	$0.00018	$0.00211

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 6b5c48e8b328, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

resume-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.

home/.cursor/skills/resume-builder/SKILL.md · 166 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 166 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Resume / CV Builder — Harvard Standards & ATS Best Practices

Overview

This skill creates professional, high-standard resumes following Harvard Career Services guidelines, r/EngineeringResumes community best practices, and modern ATS (Applicant Tracking System) knowledge. It produces resumes that are optimized for both human recruiters (who spend 5-20 seconds scanning) and ATS parsing systems.

Before starting any resume work, read the relevant reference files:

references/format-and-structure.md — Page layout, fonts, spacing, section ordering
references/bullet-writing-guide.md — XYZ/STAR formula, action verbs, quantification
references/ats-and-keywords.md — ATS truths vs myths, keyword strategy
references/common-mistakes.md — What to avoid, anti-patterns

Quick Decision Framework

User Request	Action
"Create my resume from scratch"	Full build: gather info → structure → write → format → deliver
"Improve/optimize my existing resume"	Analyze current → identify issues → rewrite bullets → reformat
"Tailor resume to job description"	Extract keywords from JD → map to user's experience → rewrite targeted bullets
"Review my resume"	Audit against checklist → provide specific feedback with examples
"Create multiple versions"	Build base resume → create variants (1-page, 2-page, language versions)
"Make it ATS-friendly"	Check format compliance → ensure parseable structure → add relevant keywords naturally

Core Process

Step 1: Gather Information

Before writing anything, collect:

Full work history — titles, companies, locations, dates, AND the domain/industry context of what each company does and what systems the user built
Technical skills — languages, frameworks, databases, tools, cloud, architecture patterns
Education — degrees, institutions, dates
Projects — personal, academic, open source
Target market — US/international (English), LATAM/Spain (Spanish), or both
Target roles — what kind of positions they're applying for
Page preference — 1 page (junior/mid), 2 pages (6+ years senior), or flexible

Read the full file on GitHub · 166 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.

2mo ago First seen · 166 lines · 183 tokens per session scan A 6b5c48e8b328

Subscribe to this mod's changes

resume-builder is a skill published in the GitHub repository mamahoos/dot-files (5 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 183 tokens to every session and 2,106 once invoked, about $0.0007 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.

Writing and docs bash configuration dotfiles

resume-builder next to 6 skills from other repositories
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resume-buildermamahoos/dot-files	Skill	5	3d ago	MIT	A	183	Claude Code, Cursor
golang-stylefredrikaverpil/dotfiles	Skill	259	yesterday	MIT	A	23	Claude Code
github-reposfredrikaverpil/dotfiles	Skill	259	yesterday	MIT	A	27	Claude Code
gh-clifredrikaverpil/dotfiles	Skill	259	yesterday	MIT	A	46	Claude Code
gh-prfredrikaverpil/dotfiles	Skill	259	yesterday	MIT	A	39	Claude Code
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