redesign-templates

redesign-templates is a skill for Claude Code from VonTerraProject501c3/slushpile. It costs 53 tokens per session (2,625 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of instructions for restyling resume and cover-letter templates while keeping their machine-readable structure. ATS means applicant tracking system, the software employers use to parse applications.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a personal visual style for LaTeX resume and cover-letter templates, then verify the redesigned documents both build correctly and remain readable by application software.
Why use it?
It lets you change typography, colors, and layout without losing the information that an ATS needs to extract. It also checks that the documents still compile and that their text remains extractable.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the slushpile plugin — 11 skills, 8 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to create a personal visual style for LaTeX resume and cover-letter templates, then verify the redesigned documents both build correctly and remain readable by application software.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vonterraproject501c3/slushpile/redesign-templates
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 VonTerraProject501c3/slushpile --skill redesign-templates
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/VonTerraProject501c3/slushpile

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install slushpile, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 11 skills, 8 agents.

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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,625 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: 3 findings, up to high

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 →

  • high Anti-Refusal · line 137
    Skill instructs the agent to omit warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Stripping safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.
    Fix: Remove instructions that suppress warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Let the agent surface safety-relevant caveats to the user.
  • high Anti-Refusal · line 153
    Skill instructs the agent to omit warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Stripping safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.
    Fix: Remove instructions that suppress warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Let the agent surface safety-relevant caveats to the user.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 155
    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 $0.00053 $0.02625
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.01313
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00525
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00263

Measured 11d ago against content hash 675234380fba, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

redesign-templates 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/redesign-templates/SKILL.md · 156 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 156 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Redesign Templates

Change how the documents look without changing what a machine reads out of them.

templates/resume.tex and templates/cover_letter.tex ship in one house style. It is a defensible style and it is not the user's. This skill produces a variant they own.

Every templates/... path in this file is relative to the plugin, not to the workspace. They are read from there and never written back to there; the variant goes in the user's own directory. Resolve them against the directory this skill file was itself loaded from — that works on every harness, where a harness-specific plugin-root variable does not.

Arguments:

  • $1 — optional. A direction: a palette, a font family, a reference PDF or image, an adjective. With nothing, interview for it.

Announce at start: "Redesigning the resume and letter templates. The ATS rules are fixed; everything visual is open. I'll compile and check the extraction before and after."

The One Thing That Makes This Skill Dangerous

A redesign is judged by eye and graded by a parser. Those are different judges, and the second one never reports back.

A two-column layout, a sidebar of icons, a header block, a skills table: each of these looks better to a person and reads worse to an ATS, and the failure is silent. Nothing errors. The PDF looks correct. The extracted text has the dates in one column and the employers in another, and the candidate never learns that this is why nobody called.

So this skill holds a fixed set of constraints and changes everything else. The constraints are listed below, and they are not preferences.

Fixed Constraints

These do not move, whatever the user asks for. If the user asks for one of them anyway, say once what it costs and then do what they decided — it is their application. Record the override in a comment at the top of the file so the next run of this skill does not silently revert it.

  1. Single column for content. Multi-column layouts get read in the wrong order, and the resulting text interleaves two unrelated streams. This is the single most damaging change available in this skill.
  2. No tables carrying content, no text boxes, no icons carrying meaning. An icon that replaces the word "Email" removes the word "Email" from the extracted text. A phone glyph is not a phone number.
  3. Contact details in the body, never in \header or \footer. Roughly a quarter of ATS drop header and footer content entirely, and the dropped field is the one they would have called.
  4. Standard section headings. "Work Experience", not "Where I've Been". The parser matches on the string.
  5. Month and year on every role. A year-only date makes tenure ambiguous, and an ambiguous tenure gets resolved against the candidate.
  6. Selectable text. No content rendered as an image, no font that fails to embed a usable ToUnicode map. Test this rather than assuming it; see Phase 4.
  7. The two documents stay a matched pair. Same palette, same fonts, same header treatment. They are the only two things in the application a screener sees side by side.

Read the full file on GitHub · 156 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. 11d ago First seen · 156 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 675234380fba

Subscribe to this mod's changes

redesign-templates is a skill published in the GitHub repository VonTerraProject501c3/slushpile (15 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 2,625 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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