| name | focus-career |
| description | Surfaces only critical, time-sensitive notifications when the user begins a session or runs this skill on a cadence they configured in Cowork. Routine summaries belong in daily-schedule. |
| triggers | ["career navigator critical alerts","any urgent job search deadlines","critical application alerts","session start job search","focus career","/career-navigator:focus-career","/focus-career","start a new session with career navigator"] |
Run when the user opens a new Cowork session with Career Navigator, or when they have scheduled this skill via Cowork /schedule (optional — for tighter proactive critical checks).
Host integration: Claude Cowork’s SessionStart hook (see hooks/hooks.json) injects hooks/context/session-start.md so this workflow is explicitly requested at session open. If the user invokes this skill manually without that hook, follow the same steps below.
Manual fallback: In environments where the SessionStart hook does not auto-fire reliably, run /career-navigator:focus-career at the start of the task/session.
This skill is the critical-only counterpart to daily-schedule. It does not replace the daily digest.
Workflow
1. Locate {user_dir} and core files
Look at the current working directory and any user-provided path. Use that as {user_dir}.
Check for:
{user_dir}/CareerNavigator/profile.md{user_dir}/CareerNavigator/ExperienceLibrary.json{user_dir}/CareerNavigator/tracker.json{user_dir}/CareerNavigator/artifacts-index.json
If these are missing, treat as first run and output:
Welcome to Career Navigator
Run /career-navigator:launch to initialize your CareerNavigator data files and enable automation.
2. Returning session: critical-only checks
Read {user_dir}/CareerNavigator/tracker.json.
Only surface critical notifications:
-
Imminent offer deadline
- Any application with
status: "offer" and offer.deadline within the next 24 hours.
- If
{user_dir}/CareerNavigator/offer-context-{application_id}.json is
not present for that application, label the critical reason as:
"Offer evaluation due (run /career-navigator:evaluate-offer)."
-
Imminent follow-up deadline
- Any application with
follow_up_date equal to today.
- If current local time is within the last 6 hours of the day, mark as critical "due in a few hours."
-
Meeting today with no prep logged
- Same meeting-today rule as
daily-schedule §3.1: any stage_history row with date = today and stage (case-insensitive) containing any of: interview, recruiter, phone screen, phone_screen, hiring manager, hm , hm interview, technical, panel, onsite, executive, final round, final interview.
- For that application, prep is logged if any
notes[] entry in the last 48 hours has text starting with [prep].
- If meeting today and no qualifying
[prep] note in 48h → critical (suggest day-of brief + deep prep).
Do not output full pipeline digest, overdue rollups, or artifact counts here. Those belong to daily-schedule.
3. Output format
If no critical items:
Career Navigator — Session Start: no critical alerts right now.
If critical items exist:
**Career Navigator — Critical Alerts** [{today}]
- {Company} — {Role}: {critical reason} ({time remaining})
- {Company} — {Role}: {critical reason} ({time remaining})
After listing alerts, add one action line:
Run /career-navigator:track-application or /career-navigator:follow-up to update next steps; for same-day interviews use /career-navigator:morning-brief or /career-navigator:daily-schedule (pre-interview subsection) and /career-navigator:prep-interview for full prep (or /career-navigator:evaluate-offer if an offer evaluation due item appeared).
