upwork-search

upwork-search is a skill for Claude Code from suxrobGM/jobpilot. It costs 40 tokens per session (2,373 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for finding freelance jobs on Upwork, a website where clients hire independent workers. It filters and ranks listings and saves suitable ones as recommendations, but does not apply for them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search Upwork jobs, assess client quality and fit, and save promising listings to a campaign.
Why use it?
It removes low-quality or unresponsive clients from the search and leaves the user with a shorter list of jobs to review.

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 search Upwork jobs, assess client quality and fit, and save promising listings to a campaign.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/suxrobgm/jobpilot/upwork-search
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 upwork-search
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

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README.md
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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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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 2,373 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: 4 findings, 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 49
    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.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 71
    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.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 85
    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.
  • medium Data Exfiltration · line 96
    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 $0.00040 $0.02373
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.01187
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00475
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00237

Measured today against content hash 28b20efe7045, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

upwork-search 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 today.

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.

4. Resolve the board: `curl -fsS -H "authorization: Bearer $JOBPILOT_API_TOKEN" "$JOBPILOT_API/api/job-boards" | jq '.[] | select(.domain=="upwork.com")'`.
plugin/skills/upwork-search/SKILL.md · 164 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 164 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Upwork Job Search & Recommend

Find Upwork jobs the user can win - qualify on fit and client quality, drop the junk, and save the keepers to the campaign for review. Recommend only: never submit a proposal here. The user drafts a proposal (the upwork-proposal skill, launched per job from the campaign page) and sends it with the upwork-submit skill.

Setup

  1. Follow ../_shared/setup.md ($JOBPILOT_API is injected by the terminal).
  2. Follow ../_shared/upwork-mcp.md: confirm the Upwork tools are connected and resolve ORG_UID once. Not connected → stop with the message that doc gives. There is no browser fallback.
  3. Parse and strip the flags; the rest is the free-text query.
    • --board upwork.com - required.
    • --max-jobs <N> - cap on results to evaluate. Absent = 30. Pages are 10 at most, so the cap sets how many cursor round trips you make.
    • --campaign <id> - campaign to save to. The UI passes it; if absent, match the latest source:"search", status:"in_progress" campaign on the query, else create one (a source:"search" create requires config.resumeId - default to the profile's primaryResumeId).
  4. Resolve the board: curl -fsS -H "authorization: Bearer $JOBPILOT_API_TOKEN" "$JOBPILOT_API/api/job-boards" | jq '.[] | select(.domain=="upwork.com")'. No row → abort: "Upwork is not configured. Add it on /boards." If a --campaign was given, first command it to failed with POST /api/campaigns/<id>/status {"status":"failed"}.

Phase 1: Parse Query

Extract the role and skills, and the preferences the search can filter on directly: hourly vs fixed, budget or rate floor, client location, weekly hours, project length. If vague, ask before searching.

Push every preference you extracted into the search parameters rather than filtering afterwards. Always set verified_payment_only: true and proposals_max: 49 - both are hard skips downstream, so paying for those rows wastes a page.

Phase 2: Search Upwork

Read the full file on GitHub · 164 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. today Changed · +54 lines 28b20efe7045
  2. 9d ago First seen · 110 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A e0da13995e4f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

upwork-search is a skill published in the GitHub repository suxrobGM/jobpilot (66 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 2,373 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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