cover-letter

cover-letter is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Remotivated/job-hunt-skills. It costs 44 tokens per session (1,168 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided tool for writing a cover letter for a specific job or narrowly defined career path. It uses your work history and checks the letter's claims before saving it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Writing an application-specific cover letter or a reusable letter for a clearly defined type of role.
Why use it?
It avoids generic letters that could fit any employer and focuses the letter on evidence relevant to the target role.

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:** selects a source work document for evidence, may write `my-documents/coverletter.md` or `my-documents/applications/{id}/coverletter.md`, runs c.

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

Good fit Writing an application-specific cover letter or a reusable letter for a clearly defined type of role.

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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/cover-letter

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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

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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,168 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 $0.00044 $0.01168
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00584
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00234
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00117

Measured 12d ago against content hash b9183a53c910, 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.

skills/cover-letter/SKILL.md · 120 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 120 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Overview

Cover-letter-only entry point. It reuses the resume-tailor cover-letter workflow when the letter is for a specific job, and the resume-builder source-letter workflow when the user is building a reusable letter for a tightly defined lane.

The quality bar is specificity. A missing letter is better than a generic one.

Workflow

State layer: selects a source work document for evidence, may write my-documents/coverletter.md or my-documents/applications/{id}/coverletter.md, runs claim-check before save, and may write a numbered report. See state-layer contract.

1. Determine letter type

Classify the request:

  • Specific application: user has a company + role, job posting, or application id. Use resume-tailor cover-letter-only mode.
  • Source letter for a lane: user has a tight target lane, company type/stage, problem, and proof points, but no specific employer. Use resume-builder just-cover-letter mode.
  • Too broad: user asks for a generic letter for "SaaS jobs", "remote jobs", "leadership roles", or multiple unrelated targets. Pause and ask for specificity.

Minimum specificity:

  • Exact role or tight lane (e.g. "early-stage SaaS PM roles," not "tech jobs").
  • Concrete company, company type, or stage.
  • Two proof points from saved evidence or user-provided facts.

2. Gather evidence

Run node "{job_hunt_skills_root}/scripts/scaffold-state.mjs" if needed.

Select the source work document using state-layer section 6. Read:

  • Selected resume.md or cv.md.
  • story-bank.md.
  • proof-assets/.
  • Relevant application folder or company research report when available.

If no source work document exists, offer resume-builder first or proceed on pasted material with limited claim verification.

3. Draft

Write for the employer's problem and the user's proof, not the user's desire for a job.

Structure:

  • Hook: company/role need + why the user's experience/skills are relevant.
  • Proof paragraph 1: strongest matching achievement.
  • Proof paragraph 2: second proof point or honest adjacent strength.
  • Fit paragraph: why this role/company/lane makes sense now.
  • Close: clear, direct, non-generic.

Read the full file on GitHub · 120 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 · 120 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A b9183a53c910

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cover-letter is a skill published in the GitHub repository Remotivated/job-hunt-skills (9 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 1,168 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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