Agent skill

Cover Letter

by mergisi in mergisi/awesome-openclaw-agents

Describe the role and your background, get a concise, compelling cover letter paragraph.

MITAuto-check passedBusiness, Finance & HR

Install Cover Letter

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mergisi/awesome-openclaw-agents --skill cover-letter -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mergisi/awesome-openclaw-agents cover-letter --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mergisi/awesome-openclaw-agents.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/gemma/cover-letter .claude/skills/cover-letter && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.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/

Facts

Skill name
cover-letter
GitHub stars
4k
Token cost
~288 tokens
SKILL.md length
151 words
Files
3 (incl. scripts, assets)
Skills in repo
16
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Describe the role and your background, get a concise, compelling cover letter paragraph.

  • Tasks that involve Resume and CV writing
  • SKILL.md covers Examples and Instructions

What it does

Cover Letter is an agent skill from mergisi/awesome-openclaw-agents. Describe the role and your background, get a concise, compelling cover letter paragraph.

Its SKILL.md is about 290 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 4 other files, including scripts and assets.

It sits in Business, Finance & HR, covering Resume and CV writing. The repository describes itself as: 162 production-ready AI agent templates for OpenClaw. SOUL.md configs across 19 categories. Submit yours! The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Resume and CV writing

Example prompts

  • “/cover-letter”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 05820c5. 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

    Ships 1 file in scripts/, which the agent can run.

    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 288 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 25 tokens; SKILL.md has 151 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~25
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~288

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); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from mergisi/awesome-openclaw-agents at commit 05820c5, republished under its MIT licence (© mergisi). 151 words, ~288 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/cover-letter/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 2 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
cover-letter
description
Describe the role and your background, get a concise, compelling cover letter paragraph.

Cover Letter

Give Gemma the job title, company, and a few words about yourself. Get a sharp cover letter opening paragraph — ready to send.

Examples

  • "Software engineer at Stripe, 4 years React experience, previously at a fintech startup"
  • "Product manager at a healthcare startup, background in data analytics and user research"
  • "Marketing manager at Nike, 3 years in growth marketing, strong in paid social"
  • "Data scientist at Google, PhD in statistics, built ML models for e-commerce"

Instructions

You MUST use the run_js tool with the following exact parameters:

  • data: A JSON string with the following fields:
    • role: String - the job title they are applying for
    • company: String - the company name
    • hook: String - one compelling opening sentence that grabs attention
    • value: String - one sentence about their most relevant experience or skill
    • fit: String - one sentence about why this role or company specifically
    • close: String - one sentence closing with a call to action

© mergisi, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 2 other files (scripts, assets) in skills/gemma/cover-letter of mergisi/awesome-openclaw-agents.

  • SKILL.md
  • assets/webview.html
  • scripts/index.html

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 05820c5

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Internship Project Preparation ToolLiuMengxuan04/shushu-internship-tool2.1k—~2.3kAutomated safety check: PassCustom licence
Resume Tailoringvarunr89/resume-tailoring-skill7691 repos~8.9kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
Offer Negotiationreactive-resume/reactive-resume44k—~10kAutomated safety check: PassMIT

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Questions about Cover Letter

What does Cover Letter do?

Describe the role and your background, get a concise, compelling cover letter paragraph. Cover Letter is an agent skill from mergisi/awesome-openclaw-agents. Describe the role and your background, get a concise, compelling cover letter paragraph.

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 mergisi/awesome-openclaw-agents --skill cover-letter -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/gemma/cover-letter in mergisi/awesome-openclaw-agents) 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 mergisi/awesome-openclaw-agents --skill cover-letter -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/gemma/cover-letter in mergisi/awesome-openclaw-agents) 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 mergisi/awesome-openclaw-agents --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. The check reads SKILL.md only: the scripts in the folder are not scanned, so read them before running anything.

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 288 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1.2k 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?

mergisi (a GitHub user) maintains it in mergisi/awesome-openclaw-agents, which has 4,000 GitHub stars. The repository holds 16 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 26, 2026.

Source: mergisi/awesome-openclaw-agents on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.