cover-letter-generator

cover-letter-generator is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Paramchoudhary/ResumeSkills. It costs 15 tokens per session (2,002 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for writing a job-application cover letter from a resume and a job description. It connects the applicant's experience to the employer's specific needs and preserves a professional, personal tone.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after reviewing a job description to draft a tailored letter, address qualification gaps, choose an opening, and explain why the candidate fits the company and role.
Why use it?
Generic cover letters repeat the resume without explaining why the applicant fits the role. This guide helps add relevant context, motivation, and examples.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it after reviewing a job description to draft a tailored letter, address qualification gaps, choose an opening, and explain why the candidate fits the company and role.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/paramchoudhary/resumeskills/cover-letter-generator
About the project

ResumeSkills is a collection of AI-agent skills for improving resumes, preparing job applications, practicing interviews, and planning career moves. It is intended for job seekers, career changers, and professionals using Claude Code for tasks such as ATS checks, job-description matching, resume tailoring, and salary negotiation. The catalogue entry consists of the project's career-focused skills.

Paramchoudhary/ResumeSkills · 2,241 stars · on GitHub

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 Paramchoudhary/ResumeSkills --skill cover-letter-generator
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Paramchoudhary/ResumeSkills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 15 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,002 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk pass 15 Feb 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, 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 →

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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 $0.00015 $0.02002
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.01001
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00400
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00200

Measured 12d ago against content hash 1b84e3d487f9, 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-generator 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

4 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

skills/cover-letter-generator/SKILL.md · 278 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 278 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cover Letter Generator

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when the user wants to:

  • Write a cover letter for a job application
  • Create a personalized application letter
  • Address specific job requirements in letter format
  • Mentions: "cover letter", "application letter", "write cover letter", "letter for job"

Use AFTER analyzing job description to have clear talking points.

Core Capabilities

  • Generate personalized cover letters from resume + job description
  • Match tone to company culture
  • Address qualification gaps strategically
  • Create compelling opening hooks
  • Structure persuasive arguments for candidacy
  • Maintain authenticity while selling effectively

Cover Letter Philosophy

The Problem: Most cover letters are generic, boring, and add no value beyond the resume.

The Solution: A great cover letter should:

  1. Show you've researched the company
  2. Connect YOUR specific experience to THEIR specific needs
  3. Address the "why you, why now, why here" questions
  4. Add personality and context a resume can't convey

The Perfect Cover Letter Structure

Length & Format

  • Length: 250-400 words (3-4 paragraphs)
  • Format: Professional business letter style
  • Tone: Confident but not arrogant, personalized but professional

Structure Overview

[Your Contact Info]
[Date]
[Recipient Info]

Opening Paragraph: Hook + Position + Why This Company (2-3 sentences)

Body Paragraph 1: Your strongest qualification match (3-4 sentences)

Body Paragraph 2: Additional qualifications + address any gaps (3-4 sentences)

Closing Paragraph: Call to action + enthusiasm (2-3 sentences)

[Professional Sign-off]

Opening Paragraph Strategies

The opening is critical - you have 5 seconds to grab attention.

Hook Types (Choose One)

1. Specific Company Knowledge

"I was excited to see TechCorp's recent launch of your API marketplace - as a Product Manager who's spent 3 years building developer tools, I immediately saw how my experience could accelerate your platform growth."

Read the full file on GitHub · 278 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. 12d ago First seen · 278 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A 1b84e3d487f9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cover-letter-generator is a skill published in the GitHub repository Paramchoudhary/ResumeSkills (2,241 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 2,002 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.

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