example-portal

name	example-portal
description	TEMPLATE — a CareerForge example job-portal adapter (ADR-0004). Copy this directory to add structured search for a real job board. Not auto-loaded by Claude Code.

Example Portal Adapter — TEMPLATE (copy me)

⚠️ This is a template, not a working portal. Its cli/ returns clearly-labelled example data so you can run it end-to-end and see the contract. To add a real portal, copy this whole directory to .agents/skills/<portal-name>/ and implement real fetching in cli/index.ts.

Why .agents/skills/ and not .claude/skills/?

Per ADR-0004, structured portal adapters are a Plane-2 extension: each portal is a self-contained CLI tool that the country-agnostic job-scraper skill calls out to, with web search (site:<portal>) as the universal fallback. They live under .agents/skills/ deliberately — that path is not the Claude Code skill auto-load directory (.claude/skills/), so an adapter is invoked as a CLI (via bun run), never silently activated as a chat skill. This keeps the core framework clean and lets any market contribute an adapter without changing core code.

Directory contract (ADR-0004)

.agents/skills/<portal-name>/
├── SKILL.md           # this file — trigger keywords + contract
├── cli/
│   ├── package.json   # dependencies + start script (Bun/TypeScript)
│   └── index.ts       # CLI entry point implementing the contract below
└── url-reference.md   # optional — the portal's search-URL patterns

CLI contract

Runtime	Bun (TypeScript). node/npx tsx also work for this template.
Input	CLI flags: --keywords "<terms>", --location "<place>", --date-range <days>
Output	A JSON array on stdout, one object per posting: { title, company, location, url, date, snippet }
Exit code	0 on success (even with zero results — emit []), 1 on error (message on stderr)

The job-scraper skill runs the adapter like:

bun run .agents/skills/<portal-name>/cli/index.ts \
  --keywords "data engineer" --location "Remote" --date-range 14

…then parses the JSON array, dedupes against seen_jobs.json, quick-rates fit, and presents results exactly as it does for web-search hits.

How to add a real portal

1. Copy this directory to .agents/skills/<portal-name>/.
2. In cli/index.ts, replace the example data with a real fetch (the portal's public search/API, or HTML parsing) that honours the input/output/exit-code contract.
3. Record the portal's search-URL patterns in url-reference.md.
4. Add the portal to your search-queries.md so job-scraper knows to use it.
5. No core change is required — that is the whole point of ADR-0004.

Constraints

• No fabrication (ARCH-0007): a real adapter must return only postings it actually found, with real URLs. This template clearly labels its output as example data.
• Keep dependencies minimal; each adapter installs independently (bun install).