timeline-polishing

timeline-polishing is a skill for Claude Code from zhiweio/resume-as-code. It costs 88 tokens per session (1,039 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing aid that turns rough notes about jobs or projects into structured YAML timeline entries. YAML is a human-readable text format for storing organized information.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to record employment, internships, academic projects, deliverables, or hackathons in a consistent timeline format.
Why use it?
It removes the need to decide how to structure scattered experience notes and how to describe achievements clearly. The entries can then serve as reusable source material for resumes.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the skills plugin — 3 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to record employment, internships, academic projects, deliverables, or hackathons in a consistent timeline format.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zhiweio/resume-as-code/timeline-polishing
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 zhiweio/resume-as-code --skill timeline-polishing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zhiweio/resume-as-code

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 88 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,039 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 $0.00088 $0.01039
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00519
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00208
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00104

Measured 10d ago against content hash f966e6daacf2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

timeline-polishing 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/timeline-polishing/SKILL.md · 70 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 70 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Timeline Polishing

Convert raw, free-form descriptions of past experiences into rich, structured YAML files that live in the candidate's master timeline library under data/timeline/. These polished entries are the source of truth that the resume-generation skill later draws from.

When to trigger

Activate when the user provides raw notes (a paragraph, bullet list, journal entry, old job description, etc.) about either:

  • A past job, role, internship, or employment period — polish as work experience.
  • A specific project, deliverable, academic project, or hackathon — polish as a project.

If the type is ambiguous, ask the user one clarifying question before proceeding.

Inputs you will receive

  • Raw text describing the experience.
  • Optional: target language. If unspecified, detect it from the input; default to English.

Outputs you will produce

A single YAML file under data/timeline/:

  • Path: data/timeline/{Type}_{TimeRange}_{Title}.yml
    • TypeWork or Project.
    • TimeRangeYYYYMMDD-YYYYMMDD for completed entries, or YYYYMMDD-Now for ongoing entries (e.g. 20221114-20240531, 20221114-Now).
    • Title — the job title or project name.

Workflow

1. Classify the input

Decide whether the description is a work experience or a project. If unclear, ask the user.

2. Polish using the matching methodology

  • Work experience → follow references/work-experience.md. Methodology: Enhanced STAR (business-focused Situation, Task, Action, Result). Goal: reframe every achievement with business-first storytelling — lead with business challenges and outcomes, show problem-solving methodology, quantify in business terms, use transferable language that works across industries.
  • Project → follow references/project.md. Methodology: Enhanced 3W (business-focused What, Why, How). Goal: reframe every achievement with business-first storytelling — define scope by business value, explain business drivers, show decision-making methodology and trade-off analysis, quantify outcomes in business terms.

Read the full file on GitHub · 70 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 70 lines · 88 tokens per session scan A f966e6daacf2

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timeline-polishing is a skill published in the GitHub repository zhiweio/resume-as-code (89 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 88 tokens to every session and 1,039 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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