cover-letter

cover-letter is a skill for Claude Code from suxrobGM/jobpilot. It costs 31 tokens per session (1,623 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A cover-letter writing tool that uses a job description and your resume to create a concise, tailored letter in a natural tone.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to identify a role’s requirements, choose relevant experience from your resume, and draft a 150–250-word cover letter.
Why use it?
It removes the need to connect your experience to each role from scratch and helps avoid repeating the same wording across applications.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the jobpilot plugin — 22 skills, 2 agents, 2 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it to identify a role’s requirements, choose relevant experience from your resume, and draft a 150–250-word cover letter.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/suxrobgm/jobpilot/cover-letter
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 suxrobGM/jobpilot --skill cover-letter
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/suxrobGM/jobpilot

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install jobpilot, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 22 skills, 2 agents, 2 MCP servers.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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.

agentmods 80×15 button for cover-letter

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,623 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

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 →

  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 81
    Data is being sent to an external URL. This could be legitimate telemetry or data exfiltration. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Verify the destination URL is trusted and necessary. Remove or replace with documented APIs. Ensure no secrets, tokens, or PII are transmitted.
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 $0.00031 $0.01623
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00812
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00325
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00162

Measured 2d ago against content hash 7bf997ab4907, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cover-letter scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 2d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -fsS -H "authorization: Bearer $JOBPILOT_API_TOKEN" "$JOBPILOT_API/api/cover-letters?page=1&pageSize=5" | jq -r '.items[].id'
plugin/skills/cover-letter/SKILL.md · 113 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 113 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cover Letter Generator

Write a short, tailored cover letter connecting the candidate's resume to a specific role.

Setup

Follow ../_shared/setup.md to load profile and resume. That structured resume is what you write from - experience, projects, skills, education, publications, awards, certifications and any custom sections are all in it. Don't also Read the source PDF: it's the same content again at several times the size, and inside an apply flow that cost is paid per job.

Step 1: Analyze the JD

From the argument, identify: company + what they do, role title and level, key responsibilities, required/preferred qualifications, tech stack and domain, culture cues.

Step 2: Read Your Last 5 Letters

Do not skip. Letters that are individually fine and collectively identical are what reads as AI - not word choice.

curl -fsS -H "authorization: Bearer $JOBPILOT_API_TOKEN" "$JOBPILOT_API/api/cover-letters?page=1&pageSize=5" | jq -r '.items[].id'

The list is metadata only, so GET /api/cover-letters/<id> each for the body. No history (first letter, or the call fails) → Step 3.

Take three things from each and drop the rest: which experience it led with, its metric phrasings, and its closing sentence. Those are what rules 14-16 compare against; keeping five whole letters in context buys nothing beyond them.

Step 3: Select Relevant Experience

From the resume, pick the most relevant: 2–3 work experiences, 2–3 projects, research (if AI/ML/CV), education (if relevant to level).

Apply rules 14-16 here, against Step 2's letters. Rotating the lead is a selection decision - make it before drafting, not by patching a draft that already opened with the usual paragraph.

Step 4: Write

Header - values strictly from user.*, never from the resume file (resumes carry stale addresses). Omit any line whose fields are empty:

[Full Name]
[City, State] | [Phone] | [Email]
[LinkedIn] | [GitHub] | [Website]

Body - 150–250 words, 3–4 paragraphs of uneven length.

Read the full file on GitHub · 113 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. 2d ago Changed 7bf997ab4907
  2. 6d ago Changed fc09be33e86a
  3. 11d ago First seen · 113 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A c143017d9982

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cover-letter is a skill published in the GitHub repository suxrobGM/jobpilot (67 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 1,623 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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