tailor-resume

tailor-resume is a skill for Claude Code from tmargolis/career-navigator. It costs 71 tokens per session (1,725 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A role-specific resume builder that creates a version of your resume for one job opening using your saved work history. It checks the result for applicant-tracking-system compatibility and stores it for later use.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when applying for a specific role to assemble relevant experience, verify the job description from the employer's own site, score the resume, and save the finished document.
Why use it?
A general resume may not reflect the wording and priorities of a particular job. This helps you prepare a targeted version based on the actual posting.

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 specific role to assemble relevant experience, verify the job description from the employer's own site, score the resume, and save the finished document.

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

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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,725 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 58
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00071 $0.01725
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00863
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00345
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00172

Measured 10d ago against content hash 682ed06345ae, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tailor-resume 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/tailor-resume/SKILL.md · 139 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 139 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Assemble the best possible resume for a specific role, drawn from the user's ExperienceLibrary. Invoke the resume-coach agent to do the work.

Workflow

1. Collect inputs

Job description — required. If the user has not provided one:

"Paste the job description and I'll tailor your resume for it."

Verify the JD against the canonical source — always. Before handing anything to resume-coach, fetch the posting from the company's own careers page or ATS (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workday, SmartRecruiters). Aggregator listings — Indeed, LinkedIn, Ladders, ZipRecruiter, Jobgether, BuiltIn — are frequently truncated, stale, or reworded, and any job_link stored in recommendations.json may point at one.

How to find the canonical post: search {Company} {Role} careers or {Company} greenhouse OR lever OR ashby {Role}, then fetch it. If the aggregator link is a shortlink (e.g. to.indeed.com/...), it will usually not resolve to usable text — go find the real posting instead of retrying the fetch.

Then diff the canonical JD against whatever the user or recommendations.json supplied, and flag every contradiction to the user before building the resume. Report them plainly:

"The full JD on {source} differs from the listing we had on file: {contradiction}. That changes {what it changes}. Want me to proceed on the canonical version?"

Contradictions that matter most, because they change targeting or disqualify the role:

  • People-management scope — "lead a team of PMs" vs. an IC/individual-contributor framing
  • Seniority or title — Director vs. Senior PM vs. Principal
  • Location and work model — onsite/hybrid/remote, and which office
  • Compensation band — especially where a pay-transparency disclosure appears only on the canonical post
  • Hard requirements — degree filters, years of experience, clearance, work authorization
  • Required application materials — essays, work samples, portfolios, take-homes that aggregators drop entirely

Read the full file on GitHub · 139 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 · 139 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 682ed06345ae

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tailor-resume is a skill published in the GitHub repository tmargolis/career-navigator (13 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 1,725 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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