search-jobs

search-jobs is a skill for Claude Code from tmargolis/career-navigator. It costs 41 tokens per session (2,830 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A job-search tool that finds and ranks relevant job listings from sources such as Indeed, public job boards, niche boards, and company career pages. It standardizes listing details such as title, employer, location, application link, source, and retrieval method.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to discover and compare jobs, capture application links and posting details, and rank opportunities against your profile.
Why use it?
Job listings are spread across many sites and often have inconsistent or missing information. This gathers the required details and asks for anything essential before ranking results.

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 discover and compare jobs, capture application links and posting details, and rank opportunities against your profile.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tmargolis/career-navigator/search-jobs
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 search-jobs
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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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,830 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00041 $0.02830
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.01415
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00566
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00283

Measured 12d ago against content hash 48d05964a743, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

search-jobs 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/search-jobs/SKILL.md · 231 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 231 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Search and rank job listings that match the user's profile using a connector-first strategy.

Source model and normalization

Use a hybrid source model in this order:

  1. Connector-native MCP (preferred) for any available source (Indeed first in current implementation).
  2. Browser-assisted capture (Claude in Chrome / computer use) only when MCP is missing or the flow is browser-only.
  3. Assisted-manual ingestion as guaranteed fallback.

Normalize all listings into this schema before ranking:

  • title (required)
  • company (required)
  • location (required)
  • apply_url (required)
  • source (required; examples: indeed, illinoisjoblink, wellfound, company_direct, ats_greenhouse)
  • retrieval_mode (required; mcp | browser | manual)
  • salary (optional, raw text if no structured range)
  • posted_date (optional)
  • close_date (optional; common on public-sector postings)
  • employment_type (optional)
  • job_id_or_requisition (optional but preferred for dedupe)
  • raw_description (optional but preferred for stronger scoring)

If required fields are missing, ask for only the missing fields before ranking.

Preflight (connector-first)

Live path: If search_jobs and get_job_details are available, use them as the primary lane and follow §1–§5 below.

No Indeed MCP in this session: Do not invent tool results. Do both of the following:

  1. Explain how to enable live search on Claude Desktop: Customize → ConnectorsIndeedConnect → complete Grant access to Indeed in the browser (Indeed OAuth on secure.indeed.com — sign in and Continue), then a new chat. Point to /career-navigator:launch Step 3 for the full walkthrough.

  2. Assisted manual: Skip search_jobs / get_job_details. After loading parameters from §1, provide 2-3 targeted query/link packs for each channel requested:

    • state/federal boards (e.g., IllinoisJobLink, USAJobs),
    • niche boards (e.g., Wellfound, Welcome to the Jungle),
    • company-direct/ATS pages (company careers, Greenhouse/Lever/Workday). Ask the user to paste listings using the normalized schema from Source model and normalization. Pass what they provide to job-scout for ranking; present with the §5 layout where links exist. Footer: note listings were user-provided (not live MCP) until connectors are connected.

Read the full file on GitHub · 231 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 · 231 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 48d05964a743

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search-jobs 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 2,830 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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