job-search

job-search is a skill for Claude Code from neonwatty/job-apply-plugin. It costs 45 tokens per session (3,532 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A job-search workflow that looks across LinkedIn, Hacker News, and Twitter/X for software roles, then scores them against saved preferences.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find and rank jobs, identify connections and hiring-manager information, and save structured search results.
Why use it?
It reduces the work of checking several sources and comparing jobs with criteria such as titles, salary, location, and exclusions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Part of the job-apply plugin — 4 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to find and rank jobs, identify connections and hiring-manager information, and save structured search results.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/neonwatty/job-apply-plugin/job-search
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 neonwatty/job-apply-plugin --skill job-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/neonwatty/job-apply-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install job-apply, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills.

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.

agentmods badge for job-search

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/neonwatty/job-apply-plugin/job-search/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/neonwatty/job-apply-plugin/job-search)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/neonwatty/job-apply-plugin/job-search"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/neonwatty/job-apply-plugin/job-search/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for job-search

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/neonwatty/job-apply-plugin/job-search"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/neonwatty/job-apply-plugin/job-search.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,532 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 3 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Data Exfiltration · line 120
    Code or instructions that leak agent conversation context to external services, potentially exposing sensitive user interactions.
    Fix: Remove any code that sends prompts, responses, or session data externally. Preserve user privacy; never exfiltrate conversation content.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 23
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 309
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00045 $0.03532
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01766
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00706
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00353

Measured 11d ago against content hash 16f0f6477870, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

job-search scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 11d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

3. Fetch the thread: `curl -s "https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/{THREAD_ID}.json"`
skills/job-search/SKILL.md · 380 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 380 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

A Codex and Claude Code skill for searching jobs across LinkedIn, Hacker News Who's Hiring, and Twitter/X. Scores and ranks results against your saved preferences, highlights network advantages, and saves structured output.


Phase 1: Load Preferences & Parse Overrides

Step 1: Load Profile

Follow the bundled answer-memory skill ($job-apply:answer-memory in Codex; /job-apply:answer-memory in Claude Code). Resolve <plugin-root> as that skill directs, run python3 "<plugin-root>/scripts/job-apply-store.py" init, load preferences with preferences-get, and load location or other profile facts with profile-get. Never read or write persistent Job Apply files directly.

If no preferences found, say:

No search preferences found. Invoke the bundled job-preferences skill first to set your target titles, salary range, and filters.

Then STOP. Do not prompt the user to set preferences inline.

If preferences exist, load them:

{
  "targetTitles": ["Staff AI Engineer", "Principal ML Engineer"],
  "minBaseSalary": "$250K",
  "remotePreference": "remote only",
  "excludePatterns": ["junior", "associate", "intern", "entry level"],
  "defaultTimeRange": "last week"
}

Step 2: Parse User Overrides

The user may pass overrides when invoking the skill:

  • Time range: last week, 2 weeks, month — overrides defaultTimeRange
  • Source filter: linkedin, hn, twitter, or any combination — limits which sources to query (default: all three)
  • Keywords: any additional keywords to use alongside targetTitles

Display the active search config before proceeding:

Search config:

  • Titles: Staff AI Engineer, Principal ML Engineer
  • Salary floor: $250K
  • Remote: Remote only
  • Exclude: junior, associate, intern, entry level
  • Time range: last week
  • Sources: LinkedIn, HN, Twitter

Phase 2a: LinkedIn Search (visible host browser)

Navigation

  1. Use the host-managed visible browser (Codex Browser plugin or Claude in Chrome) and reuse an appropriate existing tab or create a new one
  2. Keep that browser/tab binding for the search instead of switching automation surfaces
  3. Navigate to https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/
  4. Verify the user is logged in from visible page state. If not logged in, say: "Please log into LinkedIn in this browser tab, then let me know when you're ready." and wait.

Read the full file on GitHub · 380 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. 11d ago First seen · 380 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 16f0f6477870

Subscribe to this mod's changes

job-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository neonwatty/job-apply-plugin (106 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 3,532 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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