follow-up

follow-up is a skill for Claude Code from palashjain95/jobhunter. It costs 104 tokens per session (1,239 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for following up on job applications that have received no response or have been rejected.

In plain words
What is it for?
Writing concise follow-up emails and LinkedIn messages, including subject lines and clear next-step questions.
Why use it?
It helps decide when to send another message, what to say, and when to stop contacting a company.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is If you see unfamiliar `~~` placeholders, see [CONNECTORS.md](../../CONNECTORS.md)..

Part of the jobhunter plugin — 13 skills, 3 agents, 2 hooks, 7 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Writing concise follow-up emails and LinkedIn messages, including subject lines and clear next-step questions.

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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/palashjain95/jobhunter
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/palashjain95/jobhunter/follow-up

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install jobhunter, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills, 3 agents, 2 hooks, 7 MCP servers.

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Per session 104 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,239 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 $0.00104 $0.01239
Opus 5 $0.00052 $0.00620
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00248
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00124

Measured 11d ago against content hash ccdadc400737, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

follow-up 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 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.

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/follow-up/SKILL.md · 161 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 161 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/follow-up

If you see unfamiliar ~~ placeholders, see CONNECTORS.md.

Usage

/follow-up <company name>
/follow-up I haven't heard back from Stripe
/follow-up I got rejected from Google

Two modes: nudge stalled applications, or process a rejection gracefully.

Inputs

  • Which company/role
  • Whether this is a FOLLOW-UP (no response) or REJECTION (got a no)
  • pipeline-data.md — current status and timeline
  • knowledge/profile.md — candidate context
  • knowledge/frameworks/writing-framework.md — communication style
  • For rejection: what they said, how far you got
  • If available: output/[company]/fit-analysis.md, interview-prep.md

Mode 1: Follow-Up (stalled application)

Timing Rules

  • After applying, no response: follow up after 5-7 business days
  • After no response to first follow-up: one more nudge after ~5 days
  • After two follow-ups with no response: stop. Application is cold.

Produce

Follow-Up Message (concise, ~75-100 words)

  • Lead with something real — new context, relevant news, additional insight
  • Restate interest briefly
  • Make it easy to respond (yes/no question or clear next step)

Two versions: Email (with subject line) + LinkedIn message (shorter).

Context Note — why this follow-up is appropriate now, what risk exists, when to give up.

Mode 2: Handle Rejection

Ask the user (if details not provided)

One at a time:

  1. "Which company and role?"
  2. "What stage were you at? (applied / screened / interviewed / final)"
  3. "What did they say?"

Produce

1. What This Rejection Tells You

  • Stage signal (what rejection at this stage typically means)
  • Pattern check (is this repeated? what's emerging?)
  • What was in your control vs not

2. Gracious Response (send within 24-48 hours, concise ~50-75 words)

  • Thank them genuinely, express continued interest, leave the door open
  • DO NOT ask why you were rejected or push back

Two versions: Email + LinkedIn message.

3. Lessons Extracted Stage-specific analysis: what to improve for next time.

Read the full file on GitHub · 161 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 · 161 lines · 104 tokens per session scan A ccdadc400737

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follow-up is a skill published in the GitHub repository palashjain95/jobhunter (2 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 104 tokens to every session and 1,239 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.

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