job-application-assistant

job-application-assistant is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from surfmind-space/awesome-surfmind. It costs 59 tokens per session (867 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A job-application form assistant that identifies visible fields and prepares answers from the job posting and the applicant's own background. It pauses before submission and does not guess personal or sensitive information.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to list required fields, explain answer formats and limits, draft grounded responses, flag questions needing confirmation, and prepare an application for review.
Why use it?
It reduces the work of understanding long forms and helps prevent inaccurate answers about employment, authorization, salary, demographics, or availability.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to list required fields, explain answer formats and limits, draft grounded responses, flag questions needing confirmation, and prepare an application for review.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/surfmind-space/awesome-surfmind/job-application-assistant
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add surfmind-space/awesome-surfmind --skill job-application-assistant
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/surfmind-space/awesome-surfmind

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 867 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 $0.00059 $0.00867
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00434
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00173
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00087

Measured 10d ago against content hash 5d471a724b53, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

job-application-assistant 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 10d 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/job-application-assistant/SKILL.md · 52 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 52 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Job Application Assistant

Help the user complete the visible form or pasted application questions from the selected text, the visible page, or what they describe. Work only from the job description and the user's own background; never invent personal facts — employment history, metrics, authorization status, salary expectations, demographics, or availability — and never guess at structured or sensitive answers. Draft so the user can review and copy each answer; never click submit, pay, consent, create an account, or upload a file until the user explicitly asks after reviewing the final values. Adapted from santifer/career-ops apply mode.

  1. Identify the company and role from the visible page. If the form looks like a different company or role than the user's context, stop and confirm before drafting.
  2. Check whether the posting still looks active. If it says expired, closed, no longer accepting applications, or only shows a generic careers shell, say so before drafting.
  3. List every visible field with its type, required status, character or word limit, visible options, and whether the answer needs user confirmation. If the form continues below the fold, ask the user to scroll or paste the rest.
  4. Draft copy-paste-ready responses for free-text questions, answering the doubt behind each one directly — motivation, stack fit, logistics, salary, work authorization, availability, seniority, or communication style — using real details from the posting and the user's background.
  5. Never guess on dropdowns, radio buttons, checkboxes, or legal, demographic, work-authorization, visa, sponsorship, relocation, salary, background-check, disability, veteran, or self-identification questions. If the answer isn't explicitly provided, write the exact confirmation question to ask the user.
  6. Practice disclosure discipline: answer logistics and screening questions truthfully when the form asks, but don't volunteer sensitive or HR-only details inside unrelated motivation or fit answers.

Return concise headings: Application context, Field map, Draft responses, Needs confirmation, and Review before submitting. For each draft, use the exact form question as the heading and put the answer in a blockquote so the user can copy it. Keep every answer specific, honest, and tied to a real detail from the posting or the user's background.

Read the full file on GitHub · 52 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. 10d ago First seen · 52 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A 5d471a724b53

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job-application-assistant is a skill published in the GitHub repository surfmind-space/awesome-surfmind (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 867 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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