Job Kit - A Resume Tailor

Turn one master resume into a job-specific, ATS-safe resume and cover letter in minutes using a target-compatible AI agent harness and LaTeX.

You keep one master resume with everything you have ever done. For each job, you paste the posting and run a few skills. Your agent reads the job, picks your most relevant experience, and generates a tailored one-page resume and cover letter as PDFs — then stress-tests them like a real recruiter and an ATS robot.

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Why this exists

Applying to jobs one by one is slow, and most people either send the same generic resume everywhere or spend an hour rewriting it per job. This kit makes each tailored application take about 15 minutes, while keeping two rules that actually matter:

1. Never invent anything. The agent is instructed to never fabricate experience, skills, or numbers. Gaps are reported honestly, not papered over. What you send is something you can defend in an interview.
2. Pass the robots, please the humans. The template is ATS-safe (single column, standard headings, no tables or graphics) and clean-looking for the human who reads it after the software filter.

How it works

log      keep your master resume fresh as you ship and learn (use anytime)
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analyze  paste a job posting -> match report (strong / partial / gap)
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tailor   generate the tailored resume + cover letter as PDFs
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review   stress-test: skeptical recruiter + ATS robot, scored out of 10
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prep     before the interview: likely questions, STAR answers, mock round

Requirements

• One target-compatible agent harness and its normal account or API access: Claude Code, Codex CLI, or OpenCode
• A LaTeX distribution (for compiling PDFs):
  • Windows: MiKTeX
  • macOS: MacTeX (or brew install --cask mactex-no-gui)
  • Linux: sudo apt install texlive-latex-recommended texlive-latex-extra

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Validation status (July 21, 2026): Codex CLI 0.144.5 and OpenCode 1.18.4 discovered all five skills; Codex and OpenCode loaded analyze explicitly. Claude Code 2.1.206 is installed but needs claude auth login. The master template compiled with tectonic and extracted correctly with pdftotext; exact pdflatex validation is pending because BasicTeX installation needs an interactive macOS admin password. The legacy .claude/commands/ files remain temporarily until Claude skill runtime validation passes.

Quick start

git clone https://github.com/yapsancode/job-kit.git
cd job-kit

Start your chosen agent and invoke skills using its native syntax:

Tool	Start	Analyze a job
Claude Code	claude	/analyze [paste the job description]
Codex CLI	codex	$analyze [paste the job description] or choose it from /skills
OpenCode	opencode	Use the analyze skill for this job description: ...

Then, inside the agent:

1. Build your master resume. Make your own copy of the template:

   cp master-resume.example.tex master-resume.tex

   master-resume.tex is git-ignored, so your personal version stays yours and future updates to this repo can never overwrite it. Then copy your current resume (PDF or Word) into this folder and tell the agent:

   Read my resume file and expand it into master-resume.tex. Then ask me for any missing numbers and details — collect all your questions and ask them together as one batched list, not one at a time.

   Your master resume should hold more than a normal resume — every project, every number, every skill. It can be several pages; it is never sent anywhere. See master-resume.example.tex for the format.

2. Apply to a job. Find a real posting, copy the text, then invoke the analyze, tailor, and review skills in that order. Use /skill-name in Claude Code, $skill-name in Codex, or ask OpenCode to use the named skill. Your PDFs land in applications/<company>-<position>/, named for you and the role, for example applications/oxydata-software-agentic-ai-engineer/Jordan-Ruiz-Resume-Agentic-AI-Engineer.pdf. The folder includes the position so a second application to the same company later never overwrites the first, and the PDF carries your name because that is the filename a recruiter sees after you upload it.

3. Before the interview: Invoke the prep skill with the company and role.

4. Keep it fresh. Whenever you ship or learn something: Invoke the log skill with the factual update, for example: "finished an eval harness for my project; accuracy went from 70% to 91%."

First run: what to expect

Two things surprise new users, and both are intentional — but we have smoothed them out:

Questions. On your first session the agent interviews you to fill in your master resume with real projects, numbers, and dates. This happens because the kit refuses to invent anything — it can only work with facts you give it. The interview happens once; after that, each application takes only a few minutes. The project rules tell the agent to ask its questions as one batched list, not one at a time.

Permission prompts. Claude Code asks before running commands on your machine — that is its safety model, not a bug. This repo ships a pre-approved list (.claude/settings.json) covering the routine commands the skills use: compiling PDFs (pdflatex), checking how an ATS robot reads them (pdftotext, pdfinfo), creating application folders, and editing files inside applications/. Anything outside that list — deleting files, installing software, fetching an unknown website — still asks you first. That is the safety belt working as intended, and those prompts should now be rare. (Codex CLI and OpenCode have their own approval systems; check their docs for the equivalent setting.)

Updating to a newer version

If you cloned this repo, pull the latest changes from inside your job-kit folder:

git pull

If you forked it, click Sync fork on your GitHub page first, then run git pull locally.

Three things to know before you pull:

• Your applications are safe. Everything under applications/ is git-ignored, so git pull never touches your job folders, your PDFs, or your history. Folders you created before the naming rules changed keep their old names and keep working.
• Your master resume is safe. master-resume.tex is git-ignored, so updates to this repo never touch it. Only the template master-resume.example.tex is tracked, and that is a separate file.
• If you customised AGENTS.md, expect a conflict. You are encouraged to adjust those rules, but updates change that file too. Git will mark the overlapping lines and you decide which to keep.

To see exactly what an update will change before you accept it:

git fetch && git diff HEAD origin/main

One-time step if you cloned before v0.2.0

Before v0.2.0, master-resume.tex itself was tracked by git. Version 0.2.0 turns it into your private, ignored file. Because git still thinks it owns your old copy, git pull will refuse to run until you set it aside. Back it up, take the update, then put it back:

cp master-resume.tex master-resume.backup.tex
git checkout -- master-resume.tex
git pull
mv master-resume.backup.tex master-resume.tex

Your resume content is untouched by this — the middle two commands only affect what git tracks. After it, master-resume.tex is yours and no future update can conflict with it.

The skills

Skill	What it does
analyze	Studies a job posting and maps each requirement to your experience: strong match, partial match, or honest gap.
tailor	Builds the tailored one-page resume and cover letter as PDFs, following the ATS-safe rules. Shows a changelog and flags any gap it refused to fake.
review	Two strict reviewers: a recruiter doing a 10-second scan, and an ATS robot checking keyword coverage and parse order. Scores each out of 10.
prep	Generates likely interview questions, STAR answers built from your real experience, honest ways to handle gaps, and smart questions to ask them. Can run a mock interview.
log	Files a new achievement or number into your master resume as a proper bullet, keeping your facts exact.

The skills are readable Markdown files mirrored in .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/. Keep both copies identical when customizing them.

The rules agents follow

Every target-compatible agent reads the shared project rules from AGENTS.md; CLAUDE.md imports that file for Claude Code compatibility. In short, master-resume.tex is the only source of truth, nothing is ever invented, resumes stay ATS-safe and one page, and each application gets its own folder under applications/. Adjust AGENTS.md to fit your own standards.

A note on honesty

This tool is deliberately built to not lie for you. If a job needs a skill you do not have, the analyze and review skills will tell you plainly. That is the point: a tailored resume gets you the interview, but only truthful content gets you through it. Use the gaps as a study list, not something to hide.

Contributing

Issues and pull requests welcome — better LaTeX templates, new skills (e.g. LinkedIn outreach, skill-gap planning), and language improvements especially. Keep the two core rules intact: ATS-safe, and never invent.

License

MIT — see LICENSE. Free to use, fork, and share.