cover-letter

cover-letter is a skill for Claude Code from tmargolis/career-navigator. It costs 49 tokens per session (1,651 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A tool that creates a tailored cover-letter brief and turns it into an honest, specific letter matched to a job and your writing style.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when applying for a role that requires a cover letter, especially after tailoring your resume or when you need to frame relevant evidence from your experience.
Why use it?
It helps connect your real experience to a particular job description without inventing qualifications. It can use a tailored resume, profile, experience library, and recorded contacts as supporting context.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the career-navigator plugin — 46 skills, 3 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it when applying for a role that requires a cover letter, especially after tailoring your resume or when you need to frame relevant evidence from your experience.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tmargolis/career-navigator/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 tmargolis/career-navigator --skill cover-letter
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tmargolis/career-navigator

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install career-navigator, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 46 skills, 3 MCP servers.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,651 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 $0.00049 $0.01651
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00826
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00330
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00165

Measured 11d ago against content hash 763c3836678a, 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 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 11d 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 · 122 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 122 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Build a CoverLetterBrief, then invoke writer for final letter prose. Do not write the full letter in this skill—writer owns send-ready copy.

Workflow

1. Collect inputs

Application data uses the split layout defined in references/tracker-schema.md — read it before any read or write.

Job description — required. If not already in context, ask the user to provide it.

Tailored resume — check {user_dir}/CareerNavigator/artifacts-index.json for a resume artifact for this company and role. If one exists, use it as the primary source for experience framing. If none exists:

"I don't see a tailored resume for this role yet. Want me to tailor one first, or build the brief from your ExperienceLibrary directly?"

Profile — read {user_dir}/CareerNavigator/profile.md for differentiators, tone preferences, and any standing instructions.

Contact context — contacts are no longer inside applications[]. In tracker.json, find the summary row for this company and role, take its contacts_file, and load {user_dir}/CareerNavigator/ + that path (contacts/<company-slug>.json); a row with contact_count: 0 or no contacts_file has no contacts on file, so skip the read. Filter the file's contacts[] to entries whose application equals the row's application label ("<company> — <role>"), and dedupe by name before presenting. If a contact is present, note it for the brief (do not draft named flattery unless accurate).

2. Research the company

Before briefing, identify 1–2 specific, verifiable things about the company relevant to fit:

  • Recent product launches, initiatives, or strategic direction
  • Team/culture signals from the JD
  • Notes about this company — in the summary row's detail_file (applications/<application_id>.jsonnotes[]), or in profile. Skip the detail read when the row's notes_count is 0.

Do not use generic praise. If no specific signals, say so in the brief—writer will omit flattery.

Read the full file on GitHub · 122 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. 11d ago First seen · 122 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 763c3836678a

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cover-letter is a skill published in the GitHub repository tmargolis/career-navigator (13 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 1,651 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 2026-08-30.

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