cover-letter

cover-letter is a skill for Claude Code from Miracle-Aligner/job-search-hq. It costs 82 tokens per session (518 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for writing a tailored cover letter or short application note for a tracked job. It uses the vacancy details, the candidate’s profile, and their CV information.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a short application blurb or a full cover letter and save it to the matching vacancy record in data/vacancies.json.
Why use it?
It avoids generic applications by connecting the specific role and company with the candidate’s real experience, while not claiming skills they do not have.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python3 scripts/validate.py.

Part of the job-search-hq plugin — 9 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to create a short application blurb or a full cover letter and save it to the matching vacancy record in data/vacancies.json.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Miracle-Aligner/job-search-hq
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/miracle-aligner/job-search-hq/cover-letter

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install job-search-hq, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills.

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Per session 82 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 518 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 $0.00082 $0.00518
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00259
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00104
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00052

Measured 12d ago against content hash e899bc8dcf39, 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.

.claude/skills/cover-letter/SKILL.md · 48 lines

What it actually says

cover-letter

Replace the old DOU "note" with a real, tailored cover letter. Writes the coverLetter field on one vacancy in data/vacancies.json.

Inputs

  • The vacancy — role, JD recap, plus/minus, summary, company.
  • profile/candidate.md + CV digests — the candidate's voice and concrete evidence.
  • Ask the user for length/format if it matters (DOU "about you" blurb ≈ 4–6 sentences; a full letter ≈ 3 short paragraphs). Default to the short blurb.

Write it like a human

  • Specific, not generic. Name the actual product/problem and one concrete reason the candidate fits (a real project or result from the CV). A reader should be unable to paste it into another application unchanged.
  • No AI tells / clichés. Ban: "I am excited to apply", "passion for", "leverage", "synergy", "fast-paced environment", "wear many hats", "I believe I would be a great fit", em-dash-stuffing, triads-of-three everywhere. Plain, direct sentences.
  • Honest. Don't claim experience the profile says is a gap. Lead with real overlap.
  • The candidate's register — match the tone in profile/candidate.md / their CV; not corporate.
  • Open with the hook (why this role), middle with one piece of proof, close with a light, non-grovelling sign-off.

Show the draft, take one round of edits, then save.

Persist

Write to vacancies[i].coverLetter (markdown/plain text). The viewer shows it in a "Cover letter" card with copy-to-clipboard. (Legacy note is still read by the viewer, but write coverLetter.)

Finish

python3 scripts/validate.py
python3 scripts/build.py --real
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 · 48 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A e899bc8dcf39

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cover-letter is a skill published in the GitHub repository Miracle-Aligner/job-search-hq (1 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 518 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.