company-research

company-research is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Remotivated/job-hunt-skills. It costs 40 tokens per session (1,880 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided research tool for evaluating a company and a specific job before applying. It examines the role, employer, working arrangement, reviews, team signals, and possible warning signs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Checking a job posting, researching an employer's direction and work culture, assessing remote or hybrid fit, finding red flags, and preparing interview questions.
Why use it?
It helps you decide whether an opportunity is worth your time and gives you better topics to raise in an interview.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is **State layer:** reads `applications.md` for dedup, writes a numbered research report, and upserts the tracker with `status: saved` on a positive verdict. See [.

Part of the job-hunt-skills plugin — 11 skills shipped together

Good fit Checking a job posting, researching an employer's direction and work culture, assessing remote or hybrid fit, finding red flags, and preparing interview 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/Remotivated/job-hunt-skills
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/remotivated/job-hunt-skills/company-research

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install job-hunt-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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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.

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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,880 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 $0.00040 $0.01880
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00940
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00376
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00188

Measured 12d ago against content hash 4942dc41728f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

company-research 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.

skills/company-research/SKILL.md · 101 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 101 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Overview

Evaluate whether a company and role are worth the user's time. The research covers the job posting, company direction, work model, reviews, team signals, and red flags that would affect whether to apply or what to ask in interviews.

Remote/hybrid fit is an important section, not the whole workflow. Use it when relevant, especially for roles advertised as remote, hybrid, distributed, flexible, or location-independent.

Workflow

State layer: reads applications.md for dedup, writes a numbered research report, and upserts the tracker with status: saved on a positive verdict. See state-layer contract.

0. Dedup check

Read my-documents/applications.md (first-run scaffold if missing - see state-layer §2). If a row already exists for this company, also scan my-documents/reports/ for the most recent {company-slug}-research-*.md or {company-slug}-vetting-*.md file. Warn the user:

You researched {Company} on {date} - report {###}. Re-run, or open that?

If they choose "open that," read the report and stop. If they choose "re-run," continue.

1. Inputs

At least one of:

  • Company name - If multiple companies have similar names, ask for industry, location, domain, or posting details to disambiguate.
  • Job posting URL or pasted posting - Use it to identify the role, company, requirements, work model, and possible concerns.
  • LinkedIn URL - Use it to inspect company identity, employee distribution, and team signals.
  • Company domain - Use it to find the careers page if no posting is provided.

2. Research

Use web browsing when available: job posting, careers page, about page, product pages, leadership page, LinkedIn company profile, employee distribution, recent news, funding, layoffs, return-to-office changes, and review themes from Glassdoor/Blind or similar sources. If web browsing is unavailable, ask the user for pasted source material and caveat that findings should be verified with current sources.

Read the full file on GitHub · 101 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 12d ago First seen · 101 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 4942dc41728f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

company-research is a skill published in the GitHub repository Remotivated/job-hunt-skills (9 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 1,880 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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