| name | tailor-resume |
| description | Use when tailoring a resume to a specific job description — reads profile/master.json plus a JD and writes a pruned, JD-ranked resumes/<company>/resume.json with a suggest-but-mark [VERIFY] honesty policy. Triggers on "tailor my resume", "resume for this job", "apply to <company>". |
Tailor Resume
Turn a job description into a tailored resume that is a faithful, JD-ranked view
of the candidate's master profile.
Required reading
Before producing anything, read these and follow them exactly:
.claude/skills/tailor-resume/references/tailoring-rules.md (canonical behavior).claude/skills/tailor-resume/references/jsonresume-fields.md (field shapes)
Steps
- Locate the master. Read
profile/master.json. If it does not exist, stop
and tell the user to run the intake-profile skill first.
- Get the JD. Accept pasted text or a file path. Identify the target
company/role and the key requirements (skills, seniority, domain, keywords).
- Pick a target folder.
resumes/<company>/ using a kebab-cased
company-or-role name (e.g. resumes/google/). Confirm the name with the user
if ambiguous.
- Select & rank. Choose the master entries (
work, projects, skills,
etc.) most relevant to the JD; reorder so the strongest JD-relevant items lead.
- Rephrase truthfully. Rewrite selected bullets toward the JD's language
without changing facts. Apply the suggest-but-mark
[VERIFY] rule for any
plausible-but-unconfirmed addition.
- Write the files. Create
resumes/<company>/resume.json and
resumes/<company>/config.json ({ "visibility": "public" } by default).
- Validate. Run
npm run validate. Fix schema errors. If [VERIFY]
markers remain, list each to the user and explain they must confirm or delete
before pushing.
- Report gaps. In chat, give a short "Gaps vs this JD" list of JD
requirements absent from the master — never write these into the resume.
Done when
resumes/<company>/resume.json exists, npm run validate passes (or the only
blockers are [VERIFY] markers explicitly surfaced to the user), and the gaps
report has been delivered.
