Career-Ops Job Search Center
career-ops-hq/career-ops
Routes job-search requests to modes for evaluating offers, scanning portals, generating tailored CVs, tracking applications and drafting outreach, starting from a pasted job URL or description.
Generate a tailored, truthful cover letter from the user's resume, profile, and a specific job description.
Install Cover Letter
$ npx skills add extrasmall0/dear-hiring-manager --skill cover-letter -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install extrasmall0/dear-hiring-manager cover-letter --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/extrasmall0/dear-hiring-manager.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/cover-letter .claude/skills/cover-letter && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.
Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/
Install the "cover-letter" agent skill from https://github.com/extrasmall0/dear-hiring-manager/tree/main/skills/cover-letter into .claude/skills/cover-letter/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "cover-letter", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/extrasmall0/dear-hiring-manager/tree/main/skills/cover-letterType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add extrasmall0/dear-hiring-manager --skill cover-letter -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install extrasmall0/dear-hiring-manager cover-letter --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/extrasmall0/dear-hiring-manager.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/cover-letter .agents/skills/cover-letter && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "cover-letter" agent skill from https://github.com/extrasmall0/dear-hiring-manager/tree/main/skills/cover-letter into .agents/skills/cover-letter/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "cover-letter", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add extrasmall0/dear-hiring-manager --skill cover-letter -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install extrasmall0/dear-hiring-manager cover-letter --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/extrasmall0/dear-hiring-manager.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/cover-letter .cursor/skills/cover-letter && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "cover-letter" agent skill from https://github.com/extrasmall0/dear-hiring-manager/tree/main/skills/cover-letter into .cursor/skills/cover-letter/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "cover-letter", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/extrasmall0/dear-hiring-manager.git --path skills/cover-letter--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add extrasmall0/dear-hiring-manager --skill cover-letter -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install extrasmall0/dear-hiring-manager cover-letter --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/extrasmall0/dear-hiring-manager.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/cover-letter .gemini/skills/cover-letter && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "cover-letter" agent skill from https://github.com/extrasmall0/dear-hiring-manager/tree/main/skills/cover-letter into .gemini/skills/cover-letter/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "cover-letter", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install extrasmall0/dear-hiring-manager cover-letterInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add extrasmall0/dear-hiring-manager --skill cover-letter -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/extrasmall0/dear-hiring-manager.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/cover-letter .github/skills/cover-letter && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "cover-letter" agent skill from https://github.com/extrasmall0/dear-hiring-manager/tree/main/skills/cover-letter into .github/skills/cover-letter/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "cover-letter", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add extrasmall0/dear-hiring-manager --skill cover-letter -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install extrasmall0/dear-hiring-manager cover-letter --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/extrasmall0/dear-hiring-manager.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/cover-letter .opencode/skills/cover-letter && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "cover-letter" agent skill from https://github.com/extrasmall0/dear-hiring-manager/tree/main/skills/cover-letter into .opencode/skills/cover-letter/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "cover-letter", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
cover-letter- GitHub stars
- 111
- Token cost
- ~749 tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 363 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 7
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
Generate a tailored, truthful cover letter from the user's resume, profile, and a specific job description.
- Works in 5 steps: Read the resume, profile, and JD. Find a… → Draft the letter (~300–400 words, 3–4… → Voice + tone: match the candidate's… → …
- Tasks that involve Resume and CV writing
- SKILL.md covers Inputs, Procedure, Deliver it to the form and Rules
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Cover Letter is an agent skill from extrasmall0/dear-hiring-manager. Generate a tailored, truthful cover letter from the user's resume, profile, and a specific job description. Draft it in the user's voice, ground every claim in the resume (no fabrication), map it to the role, flag it for review, and save a copy. Used by the apply skill when a portal has a cover-letter field, or standalone via /cover-letter <job-url.
Its SKILL.md is about 750 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.
It sits in Business, Finance & HR, covering Resume and CV writing. The repository describes itself as: A Claude Code plugin that fills your job applications from your profile, drafts the cover letter, and leaves Submit to you. Locally. The licence is MIT.
When your agent uses it
- Tasks that involve Resume and CV writing
Example prompts
- “/cover-letter”
Workflow steps
5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.
- Read the resume, profile, and JD. Find a hook: the JD's core problem, a recent company launch/news, or
- Draft the letter (~300–400 words, 3–4 short paragraphs; under 250 reads thin, over 500 won't get finished)
- Voice + tone: match the candidate's register from the resume — professional but distinct, not a
- Humanize. Run the draft through the humanize skill — no em/en-dashes, no parenthetical
- Flag it review-me and save to ~/.dear-hiring-manager/runs//cover-letter.md,
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit ff6c26b. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
Tool permissions
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Context cost
Cover Letter loads about 749 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 91 tokens; SKILL.md has 363 words of instructions outside code blocks.
Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.
Safety
Auto-check passed
The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.
Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.
SKILL.md
The full file from extrasmall0/dear-hiring-manager at commit ff6c26b, republished under its MIT licence (© extrasmall0). 363 words, ~749 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/cover-letter/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- cover-letter
- description
- Generate a tailored, truthful cover letter from the user's resume, profile, and a specific job description. Draft it in the user's voice, ground every claim in the resume (no fabrication), map it to the role, flag it for review, and save a copy. Used by the apply skill when a portal has a cover-letter field, or standalone via /cover-letter <job-url>.
Cover letter
Draft a tailored cover letter for one role. Truthful, specific, concise — never a generic template.
Inputs
~/.dear-hiring-manager/resume.*andprofile.md— the candidate.- The job description + company. If given only a URL, open it and extract the JD first (see
apply).
Procedure
- Read the resume, profile, and JD. Find a hook: the JD's core problem, a recent company launch/news, or a concrete result you can speak to.
- Draft the letter (~300–400 words, 3–4 short paragraphs; under 250 reads thin, over 500 won't get finished):
- Open with a specific hook — NOT "I'm excited/passionate to apply." Tie the first line to company research / the JD's core problem / a concrete result. Specificity earns the second sentence read.
- Body: each paragraph maps one JD requirement to a real, resume-backed story with numbers (2–3 measurable accomplishments, not a skills list). Mirror the JD's own language — "you need X, I did Y" signals a careful read. No claim that isn't in the resume.
- Close with a direct call to action — ask for a conversation.
- Voice + tone: match the candidate's register from the resume — professional but distinct, not a corporate template. Role-fit: engineering → substance over polish; sales → lead with results/numbers; creative → a distinct perspective.
- Humanize. Run the draft through the
humanizeskill — no em/en-dashes, no parenthetical asides, no AI tells, vary sentence length, sound like the candidate. Plus: no generic skill claims without evidence, no over-explaining gaps or pivots, no ATS-breaking formatting (keep it plain text). - Flag it review-me and save to
~/.dear-hiring-manager/runs/<company-role-slug>/cover-letter.md, then deliver it to the form (see below).
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Deliver it to the form
- Textarea / "enter manually" → fill the field with the letter text.
- File upload ("Attach") → write the letter to a real file first
(
~/.dear-hiring-manager/runs/<slug>/cover-letter.txt, or.pdf), stage it into.playwright-mcp/(Playwright's sandbox root), upload from there, then delete the staged copy. Accepted types are usuallypdf, doc, docx, txt, rtf.
Rules
- Truthful: every claim traces to the resume/profile — no invented employers, titles, dates, or numbers.
- Tailored to THIS JD/company — if it could be pasted into another application unchanged, it's too generic.
- The human always reviews before Submit; the draft is a flagged starting point.
- Flat-file: the saved copy is human-readable Markdown.
© extrasmall0, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file
Files
Just SKILL.md in skills/cover-letter of extrasmall0/dear-hiring-manager.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit ff6c26b
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| Offer Negotiationreactive-resume/reactive-resume | 44k | — | ~10k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
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Questions about Cover Letter
What does Cover Letter do?
Generate a tailored, truthful cover letter from the user's resume, profile, and a specific job description. Cover Letter is an agent skill from extrasmall0/dear-hiring-manager. Generate a tailored, truthful cover letter from the user's resume, profile, and a specific job description.
When should I use Cover Letter?
Cover Letter fits situations like: tasks that involve Resume and CV writing.
How do I install Cover Letter in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add extrasmall0/dear-hiring-manager --skill cover-letter -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/cover-letter in extrasmall0/dear-hiring-manager) into .claude/skills/cover-letter in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Cover Letter in Codex?
Run `npx skills add extrasmall0/dear-hiring-manager --skill cover-letter -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/cover-letter in extrasmall0/dear-hiring-manager) into .agents/skills/cover-letter in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Cover Letter in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?
Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add extrasmall0/dear-hiring-manager --skill cover-letter -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/cover-letter, .gemini/skills/cover-letter, .github/skills/cover-letter and .opencode/skills/cover-letter in your project.
What does Cover Letter need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Cover Letter is instructions for the agent only.
Does Cover Letter access the network?
SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Is Cover Letter safe to install?
Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.
What licence does Cover Letter use?
Cover Letter is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
How many tokens does Cover Letter use?
About 749 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
What are the alternatives to Cover Letter?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Cover Letter: Career-Ops Job Search Center (career-ops-hq/career-ops, 74k stars), Reactive Resume Builder (reactive-resume/reactive-resume, 44k stars), Internship Project Preparation Tool (LiuMengxuan04/shushu-internship-tool, 2.1k stars) and Resume Tailoring (varunr89/resume-tailoring-skill, 769 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Cover Letter?
extrasmall0 (a GitHub user) maintains it in extrasmall0/dear-hiring-manager, which has 111 GitHub stars. The repository holds 7 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on July 15, 2026.
Source: extrasmall0/dear-hiring-manager on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.