/tailor — evaluate a job posting, then tailor your CV to it

A Claude Code skill that layers on top of career-ops.

career-ops scores the role and renders the PDF. This skill adds the parts it has no equivalent for, and chains everything into one repeatable run:

• Keyword-coverage scoring (CV ↔ JD) with a before/after lift you can see
• A hard fact gate so no metric reaches the PDF unless your CV supports it
• ATS character hygiene — em/en dashes, smart quotes, ligatures, × vs x
• A conservative salary ask, checked against a floor you set once

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Install

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && git clone https://github.com/donsamoylov/tailor-skill ~/.claude/skills/tailor

Requires Claude Code and Node.js 18+. You do not need career-ops beforehand — the skill installs it on first run.

Use

Open a terminal in any folder, run claude, then send one message:

/tailor
<paste the full job description>

…and attach your resume (PDF, DOCX, or text) if this is the first run in that folder. After that the folder remembers your CV; send only the next posting.

What it does

0. Takes stock: JD? resume or cv.md? Asks for whatever is missing — before
   installing anything, so you never wait on a run that cannot finish
1. Installs career-ops if absent; resume → cv.md, posting → jds/<slug>.md
2. EVALUATION with career-ops' A-G rubric  → report, 1-5 score, tracker row
3. Score below 3.5 → says so plainly and asks whether to continue
4. Keyword target — gaps from the evaluation are marked `!` and never enter the CV
5. Payload built from the evaluation's customization plan
6. Gates: baseline → fact gate → keyword match → ATS lint → PDF
7. Analytics: coverage before vs after, and the honest ceiling
8. Salary ask vs your floor, with the reasoning
9. Cover letter (optional)

What you get

Output	What it is
reports/NNN-<company>-<date>.md	A-G evaluation: score, requirement-by-requirement match, gaps, comp read, posting legitimacy, apply-or-skip
output/cv-<name>-<company>-<date>.pdf	Tailored CV: monochrome, single column, ATS-clean
Analytics table	Coverage before and after tailoring, the lift in points, and which requirements you genuinely lack
Salary recommendation	Employer band vs your floor, one defensible number, and what to confirm
Cover letter PDF	Optional, after four questions

The one rule

It never lies on your CV. It surfaces skills you really have in the posting's own vocabulary — aggressively, because that is what gets past filters — but it does not invent metrics, employers, titles, or experience.

A fact gate blocks any figure your source CV does not support: the build stops rather than shipping an invented number. Requirements you genuinely lack stay out of the CV entirely; they belong in the cover letter as transferable framing, or in an honest interview answer.

That is also why coverage sometimes stops short of 100%. A ceiling made of real gaps is the correct result, not a failure.

What is in here

File	Purpose
SKILL.md	The flow Claude follows
assets/cv-jd-match.mjs	Keyword-coverage scorer, zero LLM. Curated target list or raw JD
assets/cv-ats-lint.mjs	ATS character linter with --fix
assets/tailor-cv.sh	Gate-stack runner with before/after coverage
assets/*.mono.html	Monochrome CV and cover-letter templates

The two .mjs tools and the shell runner work standalone if you want them outside the skill:

node cv-jd-match.mjs cv.md --keywords jds/acme.keywords.txt --summary
node cv-ats-lint.mjs cv.md --fix

Credits

Built on career-ops by Santiago Fernández de Valderrama (MIT). No career-ops code is redistributed here — the skill calls it where installed. The monochrome templates are restyled from career-ops templates and carry that project's licence; see NOTICE.md.

MIT licensed.