focus-career

focus-career is a skill for Claude Code from tmargolis/career-navigator. It costs 39 tokens per session (1,192 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A critical-only career check that shows urgent, time-sensitive job-search notifications when a session starts or on a schedule you set.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to check for critical items across your career profile, applications, contacts, generated documents, and related job-search files.
Why use it?
It keeps important deadlines or changes visible without filling your session with routine updates. Routine summaries are handled separately.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: SessionStart hook event.

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

Good fit Use it to check for critical items across your career profile, applications, contacts, generated documents, and related job-search files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tmargolis/career-navigator/focus-career
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 focus-career
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.

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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,192 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 $0.00039 $0.01192
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00596
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00238
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00119

Measured 10d ago against content hash b715280f2953, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

focus-career 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/focus-career/SKILL.md · 81 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 81 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Run when the user opens a new Cowork session with Career Navigator, or when they have scheduled this skill via Cowork /schedule (optional — for tighter proactive critical checks).

Host integration: Claude Cowork’s SessionStart hook (see hooks/hooks.json) injects hooks/context/session-start.md so this workflow is explicitly requested at session open. If the user invokes this skill manually without that hook, follow the same steps below.

Manual fallback: In environments where the SessionStart hook does not auto-fire reliably, run /career-navigator:focus-career at the start of the task/session.

This skill is the critical-only counterpart to daily-schedule. It does not replace the daily digest.

Workflow

1. Locate {user_dir} and core files

Look at the current working directory and any user-provided path. Use that as {user_dir}.

Check for:

  • {user_dir}/CareerNavigator/profile.md
  • {user_dir}/CareerNavigator/ExperienceLibrary.json
  • {user_dir}/CareerNavigator/tracker.json
  • {user_dir}/CareerNavigator/artifacts-index.json

If these are missing, treat as first run and output:

Welcome to Career Navigator

Run /career-navigator:launch to initialize your CareerNavigator data files and enable automation.

2. Returning session: critical-only checks

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

Read {user_dir}/CareerNavigator/tracker.json. Checks 1 and 2 below are answered by the summary rows alone (status, offer.deadline, follow_up_date, latest_stage, latest_stage_date, notes_count); only check 3 opens a detail file, and only for applications that already qualify. This skill must stay cheap — never walk every applications/<application_id>.json.

Only surface critical notifications:

  1. Imminent offer deadline
    • Any application with status: "offer" and offer.deadline within the next 24 hours.
    • If {user_dir}/CareerNavigator/offer-context-{application_id}.json is not present for that application, label the critical reason as: "Offer evaluation due (run /career-navigator:evaluate-offer)."

Read the full file on GitHub · 81 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 · 81 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A b715280f2953

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focus-career is a skill published in the GitHub repository tmargolis/career-navigator (13 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 1,192 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.