resume-builder

resume-builder is a skill for Claude Code, Cursor from mamahoos/dot-files. It costs 183 tokens per session (2,106 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

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.

In plain words
What is it for?
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.
Why use it?
It helps turn scattered work history into clear, relevant evidence for both recruiters and application-screening software.

Skill for Claude CodeCursor

Written for Claude Code and Cursor: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter, but also installed under .cursor/.

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mamahoos/dot-files/resume-builder
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.

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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.

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README.md
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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. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00183 $0.02106
Opus 5 $0.00092 $0.01053
Sonnet 5 $0.00037 $0.00421
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00211

Measured 6d ago against content hash 6b5c48e8b328, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, 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 6d 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:

  1. Full work history — titles, companies, locations, dates, AND the domain/industry context of what each company does and what systems the user built
  2. Technical skills — languages, frameworks, databases, tools, cloud, architecture patterns
  3. Education — degrees, institutions, dates
  4. Projects — personal, academic, open source
  5. Target market — US/international (English), LATAM/Spain (Spanish), or both
  6. Target roles — what kind of positions they're applying for
  7. 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.

  1. 6d 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 (4 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 183 tokens to every session and 2,106 once invoked, about $0.0009 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.