Jobhunt

jobhunt — Automated Job Application Pipeline

A token-thrifty job-hunting skill: scans portals, ranks against your CV, builds 5 tailored application folders each morning. ~$0.40-0.60 per morning at default settings.

Quickstart:

npx skills add github.com/Nyx-abu/jobhunt
/jobhunt setup       # 7 questions, ~2 minutes
/jobhunt morning     # 5 folders ready in ~/.jobhunt/company/

Mode router

Parse $ARGUMENTS (first token = mode):

Arg	Mode	What it does
(empty) / "what's ready"	status	Today's queue + next-best action
setup	setup	7-question conversational wizard; writes profile.yml + portals.yml
setup --reset <field>	setup (repair)	Re-ask just one question (country, cv, roles, experience, salary, tiers, cloud)
morning	morning	Full chain: scan → rank → build top 5 packages
apply <slug-or-url>	apply	One-off package for a specific company
apply <slug> --force	apply	Override tier/comp/fit gates
why <slug>	why	Explain why a slug was skipped (zero LLM)
scan	scan	Scan only, no rank/build
diagnose	diagnose	ATS audit of cv.md

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Mode: setup — 7-question conversational wizard

When the user invokes /jobhunt setup, follow this flow. Each question is one message; use AskUserQuestion for multiple-choice; wait for the answer before proceeding.

Q1 — Country

Ask via AskUserQuestion (14 options): "What country are you in / job-hunting from?"

Options: US · UK · EU · CA · AU · SG · IN · BR · DE · NL · IE · UAE · MX · other

On answer:

• Read config/locales/{country_code_lowercase}.yml into memory using js-yaml.
• If other: ask one follow-up — "What currency? (e.g. USD, EUR)" — and create a minimal locale dict: {currency: <answer>, pdf_format: "a4", date_format: "MMM YYYY", language: "en", salary_floor: null}.
• Hold the locale dict for Q5.

Q2 — CV input

Ask via AskUserQuestion (3 options): "How do we get your CV?"

Options:

1. File path — PDF or DOCX (recommended)
2. LinkedIn URL — fallback, may be incomplete
3. Skip — create cv.md template; fill in by hand

Branch 1: File path

Ask for the path. Then:

1. Detect extension. .pdf → needs pdf skill. .docx → needs docx skill. Other → reject, retry.
2. Check installed via node scripts/setup-helpers.mjs check-skill <pdf|docx>. If absent, ask user: "This needs the <X> skill. Install via npx skills add ...? (y/N)". On 'y': run the install command. On 'N': abort.
3. Invoke the pdf or docx skill to extract text from the file.
4. ONE LLM call to structure the extracted text into YAML with these keys: headline, years_experience, top_skills, hero_proof_points, keywords_owned, gaps_known, employers, education, links. Write the structured YAML to $JOBHUNT_HOME/.cache/cv-summary.yml. Write a markdown version to $JOBHUNT_HOME/cv.md.
5. Print: "CV extracted to $JOBHUNT_HOME/cv.md. Review it before your first morning run — PDF extraction is sometimes lossy. Continuing setup..."

Branch 2: LinkedIn URL

Ask for the URL. Then:

1. Run node scripts/linkedin-scrape.mjs <url>. Script outputs JSON on stdout (success) or stderr (failure).
2. On {ok: true, text}: same extraction LLM call as Branch 1 #4.
3. On {ok: false, reason: "login_wall"}: print "⚠️ LinkedIn served a login wall (anonymous scraping blocked). Two options: (a) Install setup-browser-cookies skill, export your cookies, retry. (b) Upload a PDF or DOCX instead (recommended). Which? (a/b)" — branch on answer.
4. On {ok: false, reason: "thin_content" | "network_or_timeout"}: print failure reason, ask user to upload a PDF/DOCX instead.
5. After ANY successful LinkedIn extraction, ALWAYS print: "⚠️ Auto-extracted from LinkedIn. Data may be incomplete or inaccurate due to LinkedIn's anti-scraping measures. For best results, upload your real CV (PDF or DOCX) by re-running /jobhunt setup --reset cv."

Branch 3: Skip

Write $JOBHUNT_HOME/cv.md with this template:

# [Your Name]

[Headline — one line describing your role/level]

## Summary
[2-3 sentences: who you are, what you do, what you're looking for]

## Experience
### [Company A] — [Role A] — [Dates]
- Accomplished X, measured by Y, by doing Z

## Education
- [Degree, School, Year]

## Skills
[Comma-separated keywords]

## Links
- GitHub: [url]
- LinkedIn: [url]

Print: "Template written to $JOBHUNT_HOME/cv.md. Edit it, then re-run /jobhunt setup --reset cv when ready. Continuing setup for now..."

Q3 — Target roles (open-text)

Ask: "What roles are you targeting? Give a one-liner — e.g. 'junior backend, AI engineer' or 'frontend, React/Next.js'."

Store split-by-comma into target_roles.primary.

Q4 — Experience level

Ask via AskUserQuestion (3 options): "What's your experience level?"

Options: junior (0-2 YOE) · mid (3-6 YOE) · senior (7+ YOE)

Store as experience_level. The rank step in /jobhunt morning uses this to filter incompatible postings:

• junior → drop Senior/Staff/Principal postings
• mid → drop Junior/Principal postings
• senior → drop Junior postings

Q5 — Minimum salary

Read locale dict from Q1. Pre-fill from salary_floor.

Ask via AskUserQuestion (3 options): "What's the minimum starting salary you'll consider? Default for {country_name}: {currency} {salary_floor}."

Options: Use locale default · Lower it · Raise it

On "Lower"/"Raise": ask for the new number via follow-up. For "other" locale where salary_floor is null: directly ask for the number.

Store as compensation.salary_floor_{currency_lowercase} and update derived compensation.minimum + compensation.target_range strings.

Q6 — Skip company tiers

Ask via AskUserQuestion with multiSelect: true: "Which company tiers do you want to skip? (Multi-select; default = nothing)"

Options:

• None — surface everything (recommended for first run)
• Frontier AI labs (Anthropic, OpenAI, Mistral, Cohere, etc.) — 1000:1 odds
• Decacorns ($10B+ valuations) — applicant flood
• Public companies — slower hiring loops
• Defense / clearance-required — visa/citizenship gates

Bundle slug mappings (see docs/recipes/abdurs-stack.md for full rationale):

• Frontier: anthropic openai mistral mistral-ai cohere hugging-face black-forest-labs stability-ai isomorphic-labs wayve
• Decacorns: salesforce spotify twilio vercel perplexity synthesia celonis hellofresh n26 trade-republic sumup getyourguide vinted weights-and-biases coreweave glean
• Public: (decacorns subset plus) intercom liveperson genesys hootsuite
• Defense: palantir helsing

Concatenate selected bundle slug lists into company_filter.hard_exclude_slugs.

Q7 — Cloud cron setup

Ask via AskUserQuestion: "Want the cloud cron 'wake up to ready folders' setup? Requires GitHub account + Claude routines access. v1 = manual setup; v1.1 will automate it."

Options: No, local-only (recommended) · Yes (manual setup) · Later

For "Yes": detect gh via node -e "import('./scripts/setup-helpers.mjs').then(m => console.log(m.hasGhCli()))". Then print docs/cloud-cron-setup.md contents inline. If gh detected, prepend: "ℹ️ Detected gh CLI — v1.1 will automate the steps below. For now, here are the manual instructions:".

After Q7 — write configs

Write three files:

1. $JOBHUNT_HOME/profile.yml — start from config/profile.example.yml, then patch with Q1-Q7 answers (candidate identity from CV extraction, target_roles from Q3, experience_level from Q4, compensation from Q5+locale, company_filter.hard_exclude_slugs from Q6, location.country from Q1).
2. $JOBHUNT_HOME/portals.yml — start from config/portals.example.yml. Patch: title_filter.positive += keywords from Q3; title_filter.negative += seniority terms from Q4; set enabled: false on tracked_companies whose slug matches Q6 exclusions.
3. $JOBHUNT_HOME/.cache/cv-summary.yml — already written in Q2 Branch 1/2; skip if Branch 3 was taken.

Print completion:

Setup complete.

Files written:
  ~/.jobhunt/profile.yml
  ~/.jobhunt/portals.yml
  ~/.jobhunt/cv.md
  ~/.jobhunt/.cache/cv-summary.yml

Next step:
  /jobhunt morning      # ~15 min, builds 5 application folders

/jobhunt setup --reset <field> repair mode

If $ARGUMENTS == "setup --reset <field>":

• Read current $JOBHUNT_HOME/profile.yml (and portals.yml).
• Jump directly to the question for that field; skip all others.
• Valid fields: country, cv, roles, experience, salary, tiers, cloud.
• Update only that field; preserve all others.

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Mode: morning

The full chain runs locally (default) or in the cloud (if opted in during Q7).

Hard rules:

• Never auto-submit applications. Produce artifacts; user submits.
• Never invent skills, metrics, employers, or interview-question sources. Honest about gaps.
• Score-gate: skip if fit < 6.5/10 (after CV match).
• Tier-gate: skip if slug in company_filter.hard_exclude_slugs (zero LLM tokens).
• Salary-floor gate: skip if cached comp_bands lower bound < user's salary floor.
• Each skip writes a JSON line to $JOBHUNT_HOME/data/rank-log.jsonl so /jobhunt why <slug> can explain it.

Step 1 — Scan (zero LLM tokens):

node vendor/career-ops/scan.mjs --verify

Step 2 — Build/refresh CV summary cache. Hash $JOBHUNT_HOME/cv.md. If unchanged + .cache/cv-summary.yml exists, skip. Otherwise one LLM call to rebuild.

Step 3 — Rank — One LLM call. Inputs: cv-summary + pending entries + cached comp_bands. Outputs table to $JOBHUNT_HOME/data/pipeline.md with columns: Rank · Slug · Role · Location · Fit/10 · Comp est · Why. Top 5 by Fit are the morning's apply queue. Anything < 6.5 stays in pipeline for tomorrow's re-rank.

Step 4 — Parallel apply workers (N=5) — Use Task tool with subagent_type=general-purpose and run_in_background=true. Each worker has a 30K token budget. Worker steps (inline this verbatim per worker):

• Step 0: tier-gate (zero LLM). Skip if slug in hard_exclude_slugs.
• Step 1: resolve JD via WebFetch.
• Step 2: extract 15-20 keywords (one LLM call, budget 2.5K in / 400 out).
• Step 3: score + 3-gap report + comp estimate (one LLM call, budget 1.5K in / 300 out). Skip if fit < 6.5 OR comp < floor.
• Step 4: tailor CV (bundled LLM call, budget 6K in / 2.5K out). Render to PDF via node vendor/career-ops/generate-pdf.mjs.
• Step 5: cover letter (one LLM call, budget 3K in / 600 out). Render to PDF.
• Step 6: apply-links.txt.
• Step 7: mock-interview pack — cache lookup → 3 WebSearch queries if uncached → one bundled LLM call (8K in / 3K out). Render to PDF.

Step 5 — Morning brief. Write $JOBHUNT_HOME/company/.morning-{YYYY-MM-DD}.md with the ranked queue, skip reasons, run stats.

Token budget: ~50K input + 20K output total ≈ $0.40-0.60 at Sonnet 4.6 rates.

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Mode: apply <slug-or-url>

On-demand one-off. Same chain as one morning worker. Honors --force flag to bypass tier+comp+fit gates.

node vendor/career-ops/scan.mjs --company <slug>   # if URL not given
# Then worker steps 0-7 from morning mode

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Mode: why <slug>

Zero-LLM lookup. Run:

node scripts/why.mjs <slug>

Print output directly. No further processing.

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Mode: status

No-args default. Steps:

1. Auto-pull (silent unless something changed): if $JOBHUNT_HOME is a git repo with a remote, run git fetch origin main && [behind?] git pull --rebase origin main.
2. Read today's brief if $JOBHUNT_HOME/company/.morning-{YYYY-MM-DD}.md exists. Render the queue at the top.
3. Render status block: today's brief presence, cloud routine status, last commit, CV mtime, profile/portals validity, pending offers, processed lifetime, next-best action.

Trigger phrases routing to status: "what's ready", "show me today's queue", "morning brief", "anything new".

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Mode: scan

Local zero-LLM scan, appends to $JOBHUNT_HOME/data/pipeline.md. No ranking, no LLM calls.

node vendor/career-ops/scan.mjs --verify

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Mode: diagnose

One LLM call ATS audit of $JOBHUNT_HOME/cv.md + target role from profile.yml. Output to $JOBHUNT_HOME/diagnose-{YYYY-MM-DD}.md. Combines: ATS-killer formatting flags, section-by-section weakness, top-5 fixes by impact, keyword research vs job market.

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Hard rules (preserved from v0)

• Never auto-submit applications. Stop at "ready to apply."
• Never invent skills, metrics, employers, or interview-question sources.
• Cite every sourced interview question (Glassdoor/Blind URL); tag inferred ones [inferred from JD].
• Liveness-check JD URLs before tailoring; skip stale.
• Location filter enforced both at scan and at apply.
• Score-gate is honest, not optimistic.

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File layout (under $JOBHUNT_HOME, default ~/.jobhunt)

$JOBHUNT_HOME/
├── profile.yml                 # user's profile (written by /jobhunt setup)
├── portals.yml                 # user's portal config (written by /jobhunt setup)
├── cv.md                       # user's CV (markdown source)
├── data/
│   ├── pipeline.md             # ranked pending offers
│   ├── applications.md         # historical tracker
│   ├── scan-history.tsv        # raw scan log
│   └── rank-log.jsonl          # /jobhunt why source
├── .cache/
│   ├── cv-summary.yml          # built once per cv.md change
│   ├── cv-summary.hash         # md5 of cv.md
│   └── research/{slug}__{role-family}.yml
└── company/
    ├── .morning-{YYYY-MM-DD}.md
    └── {slug}/                 # one folder per processed company
        ├── cv.{html,pdf}
        ├── cover-letter.{html,pdf}
        ├── mock-interview.{html,pdf}
        ├── apply-links.txt
        ├── jd.md
        ├── keywords.yml
        └── report.md