market-brief

market-brief is a skill for Claude Code from tmargolis/career-navigator. It costs 41 tokens per session (1,243 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A market research report about the job market for your target roles, including demand, possible effects of AI and automation, and differences between locations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review market conditions for chosen roles and locations, including possible job changes caused by AI or automation.
Why use it?
It helps replace guesswork about where jobs are available and how competitive they may be. It can use your saved career information and, when requested, outside sources.

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 to review market conditions for chosen roles and locations, including possible job changes caused by AI or automation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tmargolis/career-navigator/market-brief
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 market-brief
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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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,243 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 $0.00041 $0.01243
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00622
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00249
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00124

Measured 12d ago against content hash 69cf387fdda8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

market-brief 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/market-brief/SKILL.md · 135 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 135 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Scheduling (Claude Cowork)

Recommended: run weekly via Cowork /schedule (e.g. same day each week) so market signals stay fresh without daily noise. Example scheduled payload:

Run /career-navigator:market-brief (Career Navigator market-brief skill) for my configured {user_dir}.

Invoke the market-researcher agent to generate a current market intelligence brief grounded in the user's role targets and location preferences.

Important invocation/data-source rules:

  • Use the exact agent name market-researcher (no aliases).
  • Do not fail the skill because external web connectors are unavailable.
  • Default to local evidence (profile.md, tracker.json, ExperienceLibrary.json, analyst norm tables, and AI report) unless the user explicitly asks for live web sourcing.
  • If external sourcing is requested and unavailable, continue with local evidence and label confidence limits.

Workflow

1. Confirm required context

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

Read {user_dir}/CareerNavigator/profile.md.

If target roles are missing:

"I need your target role(s) to generate a market brief. Run /career-navigator:launch (or update CareerNavigator/profile.md) with your target roles first."

If location preferences are missing, continue but mark geographic confidence as limited.

Optionally read:

  • {user_dir}/CareerNavigator/tracker.json for user-specific conversion/timeline signals — the summary rows (status, outcome, date_applied, latest_stage, latest_stage_date) carry these; this skill does not need per-application stage history, so do not open detail_files
  • {user_dir}/CareerNavigator/ExperienceLibrary.json for capability-fit context

2. Invoke market-researcher

Hand off to market-researcher with:

  • The full CareerNavigator/profile.md
  • The full CareerNavigator/tracker.json (if present) — summary rows only; note to the agent that stage history lives in applications/<application_id>.json and is not needed for this brief
  • The full CareerNavigator/ExperienceLibrary.json (if present)
  • Instruction to include all three required sections:
    1. Role demand trends
    2. AI/automation displacement outlook
    3. Geographic competitiveness signals

Read the full file on GitHub · 135 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 · 135 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 69cf387fdda8

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market-brief is a skill published in the GitHub repository tmargolis/career-navigator (13 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 1,243 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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