Agent skill

Career Navigator

by Zal4DW in Zal4DW/career-helper

A skill your agent uses when the user wants to plan or manage a job search as a whole, such as networking strategy, a 3-month search plan, salary negotiation, evaluating or comparing offers…

Custom licenceAuto-check passedBusiness, Finance & HR

Install Career Navigator

skills CLI
$ npx skills add Zal4DW/career-helper --skill career-navigator -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install Zal4DW/career-helper career-navigator --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/Zal4DW/career-helper.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/career-helper/skills/career-navigator .claude/skills/career-navigator && 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
career-navigator
GitHub stars
111
Token cost
~4k tokens
SKILL.md length
1,926 words
Files
22 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
16
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when the user wants to plan or manage a job search as a whole, such as networking strategy, a 3-month search plan, salary negotiation, evaluating or comparing offers…

  • Works in 7 steps: Strategic Networking Intelligence → 3-Month Job Search Plan → Salary Negotiation Coach → …
  • The user wants to plan
  • SKILL.md covers Capabilities, Quick Start, Accessibility and Coaching Voice, plus 12 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Career Navigator is an agent skill from Zal4DW/career-helper. Use when the user wants to plan or manage a job search as a whole, such as networking strategy, a 3-month search plan, salary negotiation, evaluating or comparing offers, tracking applications (including a kanban board), or learning from debriefs and rejections across applications.

Its SKILL.md is about 4k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 22 other files, including reference files (for example `references/application-tracker-template.md`, `references/application-tracker.md` and `references/career-returner-strategy.md`).

It sits in Business, Finance & HR, covering Job search and resumes and Sprint planning and agile. The repository describes itself as: A career helper skill for claude (desktop/web/code).

When your agent uses it

  • The user wants to plan
  • Manage a job search as a whole
  • Such as networking strategy
  • A 3-month search plan

Example prompts

  • “/career-navigator”

Workflow steps

7 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Strategic Networking Intelligence
  2. 3-Month Job Search Plan
  3. Salary Negotiation Coach
  4. Offer Evaluation Framework
  5. Application Tracker
  6. Application Learnings Loop
  7. Kanban Board View

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit c19cefe. 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

Career Navigator loads about 4k tokens when it runs, and up to ~72k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 75 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,926 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~75
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~4k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~72k

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

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 1,926 words (~3,992 tokens).

“Plan your search, build your network, and navigate offers.”

— opening of SKILL.md by Zal4DW, Custom licence
name
career-navigator
tags
networking, salary, negotiation, offers, planning, job-search, strategy

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 21 other files (references) in career-helper/skills/career-navigator of Zal4DW/career-helper.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/application-tracker-template.md
  • references/application-tracker.md
  • references/career-returner-strategy.md
  • references/career-stage-context.md
  • references/early-career-search-strategy.md
  • references/interview-debrief-template.md
  • references/kanban-board-template.html
  • references/kanban-board.md
  • references/learnings-loop.md
  • references/ned-search-strategy.md
  • references/negotiation-strategy-template.md
  • references/networking-intelligence-template.md
  • references/networking-strategy.md
  • references/offer-evaluation-template.md
  • references/offer-evaluation.md
  • references/patterns-synthesis-template.md
  • references/rejection-analysis-template.md
  • references/salary-negotiation.md
  • references/three-month-plan-template.md
  • … and 2 more

Open the folder on GitHubat commit c19cefe

Compare with similar skills

Career Navigator next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.

Career Navigator compared with similar skills
SkillStarsUsed inTokensAuto-checkLicenceRepo updated
Career Navigator this skillZal4DW/career-helper111—~4kAutomated safety check: PassCustom licence
Career-Ops Job Search Centercareer-ops-hq/career-ops74k—~3.6kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
Reactive Resume Builderreactive-resume/reactive-resume44k—~2kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
freehire Tech Job SearchMadsLorentzen/ai-job-search45k—~2.7kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
Interview Prepreactive-resume/reactive-resume44k—~10kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
LinkedIn Job SearchMadsLorentzen/ai-job-search45k—~1.2kAutomated safety check: PassMIT

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Questions about Career Navigator

What does Career Navigator do?

A skill your agent uses when the user wants to plan or manage a job search as a whole, such as networking strategy, a 3-month search plan, salary negotiation, evaluating or comparing offers…. Career Navigator is an agent skill from Zal4DW/career-helper. Use when the user wants to plan or manage a job search as a whole, such as networking strategy, a 3-month search plan, salary negotiation, evaluating or comparing offers, tracking applications (including a kanban board), or learning from debriefs and rejections across applications.

When should I use Career Navigator?

Career Navigator fits situations like: the user wants to plan; manage a job search as a whole; such as networking strategy; A 3-month search plan.

How do I install Career Navigator in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add Zal4DW/career-helper --skill career-navigator -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (career-helper/skills/career-navigator in Zal4DW/career-helper) into .claude/skills/career-navigator in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Career Navigator in Codex?

Run `npx skills add Zal4DW/career-helper --skill career-navigator -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (career-helper/skills/career-navigator in Zal4DW/career-helper) into .agents/skills/career-navigator in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Career Navigator 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 Zal4DW/career-helper --skill career-navigator -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/career-navigator, .gemini/skills/career-navigator, .github/skills/career-navigator and .opencode/skills/career-navigator in your project.

What does Career Navigator need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Career Navigator is instructions for the agent only.

Does Career Navigator 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 Career Navigator 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 Career Navigator use?

Career Navigator has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Career Navigator use?

About 4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 16k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 68k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Career Navigator?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Career Navigator: Career-Ops Job Search Center (career-ops-hq/career-ops, 74k stars), Reactive Resume Builder (reactive-resume/reactive-resume, 44k stars), freehire Tech Job Search (MadsLorentzen/ai-job-search, 45k stars) and Interview Prep (reactive-resume/reactive-resume, 44k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Career Navigator?

Zal4DW (a GitHub user) maintains it in Zal4DW/career-helper, which has 111 GitHub stars. The repository holds 16 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 29, 2026.

Source: Zal4DW/career-helper on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.