lookalike-candidate-sourcing

lookalike-candidate-sourcing is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from swan-gtm/gtm-skills. It costs 63 tokens per session (763 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A candidate-search workflow for finding people who resemble a successful employee. It produces a ranked shortlist with visible scoring based on job title, skills, seniority, and location.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search from one example employee, narrow results by role and location, optionally enrich shortlisted profiles with more details, and compare candidates using a transparent score out of 100.
Why use it?
It avoids relying only on a job-board post or a generic job description when replacing or expanding a strong team member. The scoring shows why each candidate ranked where they did.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to search from one example employee, narrow results by role and location, optionally enrich shortlisted profiles with more details, and compare candidates using a transparent score out of 100.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/swan-gtm/gtm-skills/lookalike-candidate-sourcing
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 swan-gtm/gtm-skills --skill lookalike-candidate-sourcing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/swan-gtm/gtm-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 763 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00063 $0.00763
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00381
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00153
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00076

Measured 12d ago against content hash d388fc04bdee, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

lookalike-candidate-sourcing 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/amir-baldiga/lookalike-candidate-sourcing/SKILL.md · 45 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 45 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Use this when one hire worked and you want more like them. It produces a ranked shortlist where every score decomposes into title, skills, seniority, and location, so a hiring manager can argue with it.

The play

  1. Take one exemplar, not a job description. A JD describes what someone wrote down. A person who is actually good in the role describes what worked. Start from the exemplar's real current title, skills, and location.

  2. Push filters into the search, not into post-processing. Role family, country, city, and current-role-only belong in the query. Filtering a large result set client-side wastes lookups and hides how narrow you actually were.

  3. Start broad, then tighten once. Role family plus two skills plus a country is a good opening net. Stacking an exact title, an all-skills-match, and a city returns zero and looks like "nobody exists" when it is really a bad query.

  4. Decide whether to enrich. Without enrichment you get a cheap keyword-ordered list. With it you get skills, education, and geography per candidate, at one extra lookup each. Enrich 20, not 200, until the shortlist direction is confirmed.

  5. Score transparently out of 100:

    • Title match, 40 — exact title 40, same role family at any seniority 25, different family 0.
    • Skills overlap, 30 — shared skills over the exemplar's skill count, times 30, compared on normalized names.
    • Seniority, 15 — same level 15, one level off 7, further 0. Infer from title prefix: Senior, Staff, Principal, Head of, VP.
    • Location, 15 — same city 15, same metro 10, same country 5.
  6. Drop the exemplar before ranking. Search returns them, they score 100, and it makes the list look broken.

  7. Return a table, not JSON. Name, current title, company, location, score, and the one line explaining the score.

What good looks like

  • The strongest sourcers treat a zero-result search as information about the query, not the market, and can say which filter they loosened and why.
  • The mediocre version returns fifty unranked names and calls it a pipeline, leaving the hiring manager to do the actual sourcing work.
  • A score is only useful if it decomposes. "77" means nothing; "77: exact title, 6 of 9 skills, one level junior, same metro" is a conversation.
  • You know it is good when the hiring manager disagrees with a specific score for a specific reason. That means they can see the reasoning.

Read the full file on GitHub · 45 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. 12d ago First seen · 45 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A d388fc04bdee

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lookalike-candidate-sourcing is a skill published in the GitHub repository swan-gtm/gtm-skills (150 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 763 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 2026-08-30.

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