Claude Skills for Job Hunting
We open-sourced the prompt architecture behind JobMentis as seven installable Claude skills. They optimize your CV, mine your git history for real stories, and prep you for interviews, all while refusing to invent a single fact. Run them free on your own Claude subscription, or let JobMentis run them for you.
Why we open-sourced our prompts
Generic AI career advice gets people rejected: polished emptiness, invented metrics, the same boilerplate a recruiter has read a hundred times. We built our prompts the opposite way. Their defining trait is that they ask you a question rather than invent a fact about you.
Prompts are a commodity. Anyone can copy text from a markdown file. What they cannot copy is the system around it: a persistent, structured version of your career that these engines run against automatically. So we gave the prompts away.
The open-source skills are the honest free tier. They genuinely work, and we want them to. What JobMentis adds is statefulness, automation, and a human coaching layer on top.
The seven skills
Each one is a distilled, installable Claude skill. Together they chain into a single /apply pipeline: evaluate the fit, draft your assets, then an independent reviewer audits every claim.
CV Optimizer
Rewrites your CV against a job description with zero fluff and zero fabrication. It asks about suspect numbers instead of inventing them.
Story Extractor
Turns a messy braindump into a sharp STAR interview story, filed in your story bank.
360Brew Planner
Plans LinkedIn posts under the 2026 ranking rules: saves over likes, no hashtags, analytical first line.
Cover Letter Writer
A 300 to 400 word cover letter grounded in your real stories, with a hard cliche ban.
Mock Interviewer
A pressure-tested rehearsal, one question at a time, then an honest debrief.
Job Search
Finds current postings matching your profile. It only reports jobs it actually fetched, never invented listings.
Evidence Miner
Harvests real achievements from your git history into the story bank, every one cited to real commits.
Three ways to run the same craft
The anti-fabrication prompt craft is identical at every level. What changes is leverage: paste the prompts into any chatbot, install them as Claude skills, or let JobMentis run the whole pipeline with a memory of you.
Copy-paste prompts
Any chatbot
- You assemble each prompt from the guide yourself
- No memory, every chat starts from zero
- Re-paste for every job by hand
- The model can invent, and nothing checks it
- Interview prep is whatever the chatbot improvises
- Every task is an island, and you are on your own
Ready-made prompt guides for each assistant:
Open-source Claude skills
Free, installable
- The full craft, packaged as installable skills
- Memory is markdown files in your fork
- Manual, one run per job
- You eyeball the output yourself
- Interview prep is text chat
- Files in a folder, and you are on your own
JobMentis
Career Memory: remembers you, connects everything, verifies every claim.
- The same craft, run for you
- Career Memory: a persistent career profile and searchable story bank, synced
- CV, stories and the job description auto-matched to every tracked role
- A groundedness reviewer flags every unsourced claim
- Live voice mock interviews with real company question banks
- A tracker, integrations and personality-aware human coaching tie it together
Weighing paid point tools instead? See what the four-tool stack costs vs one system
What you get
Free, and it genuinely works
7
installable skills plus an /apply pipeline
MIT
licensed, fork and run
5 min
to fork and run it locally
Questions
Do I need to pay?+
No. The skills are MIT-licensed and free; you run them on your own Claude subscription. JobMentis is the optional hosted version that adds memory and automation.
Do these work with models other than Claude?+
The paste-able prompt versions work with any capable chat model. The installable skill versions target Claude Code and Claude Desktop.
What does JobMentis add over the free skills?+
Statefulness: a searchable story bank, automatic job-description matching, the groundedness reviewer, pipeline tracking, and coaching. The skills are the free tier of the same engines.
Is my data private?+
With the skills, everything stays in local files on your machine, and the gitignore keeps personal data out of your fork. On JobMentis your data lives under GDPR-isolated, per-tenant infrastructure you can delete any time.
Prefer pasting prompts by hand? See the Claude resume prompts guide
Grounded assets, whichever way you run them
Install the skills and run them free, or let JobMentis run the whole pipeline against your persistent career profile.