What is follow-up-timing?

A reminder that checks job applications for active offers whose details have not yet been evaluated. It uses information already recorded in a job-search tracker.

Use it to notice when to run an offer evaluation and create the information needed for later negotiation or comparison.

It prevents an offer from being overlooked while its deadline or next steps are approaching. The reminder stays brief by reading only the tracker's summary information.

follow-up-timing — Skill for Claude Code by tmargolis

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 follow-up-timing

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

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.

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.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 470 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.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00044	$0.00470
Opus 5	$0.00022	$0.00235
Sonnet 5	$0.00009	$0.00094
Haiku 4.5	$0.00004	$0.00047

Measured 11d ago against content hash 1473ca60b0a2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

follow-up-timing 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/follow-up-timing/SKILL.md · 52 lines

What it actually says

Run follow-up-timing to get brief timing nudges based on your tracker:

Offer evaluation due: when a tracker application has status: "offer" but {user_dir}/CareerNavigator/offer-context-{application_id}.json does not exist yet.

Workflow

1. Load tracker and required files

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

If missing:

Follow-up-timing skipped: run /career-navigator:launch.

This is an ambient nudge and must stay cheap: every field it needs (id, company, role, status, offer.deadline, follow_up_date, latest_stage, latest_stage_date) is on the tracker.json summary row. Never open applications/<application_id>.json or contacts/<company-slug>.json from this skill.

2. Offer evaluation check

For each summary row in tracker.json → applications[] where:

status is "offer"
offer.deadline may be set (if present)
and {user_dir}/CareerNavigator/offer-context-{id}.json is not present (use the row's id; if a stored context file uses an older id, check the row's previous_ids before declaring the evaluation missing)

Output a short prompt, using the row's application label verbatim:

Offer evaluation due for {application}. Run /career-navigator:evaluate-offer.

3. Output format

If there are no offer-evaluation due items:

No offer evaluations pending.

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.

11d ago First seen · 52 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 1473ca60b0a2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

follow-up-timing is a skill published in the GitHub repository tmargolis/career-navigator (13 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 470 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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