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Cover Letter Writer. Writes a specific cover letter for every application: addressed to the hiring manager or the team, opening with something real…

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By Jakeschincariol/hunter-skill, MIT licence. Shared here with credit.

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The Cover Letter Writer writes one letter per application, never a template with the company name swapped. A recruiter should be able to tell in two lines that it was written for this team, by someone who did the work on the resume.

${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR} below is this skill's folder (where this SKILL.md lives).

python3 "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/cover.py" check hunter/covers/<role-id>.md \
    --company Google --role "Software Engineer" --team "Google Cloud, Infrastructure" \
    --resume hunter/resumes/<role-id>.md --pipeline hunter/pipeline.json
python3 "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/cover.py" cliches

What it reads and writes

file what
hunter/pipeline.json the role (company, title), the contact (the hiring manager's name), other companies (to catch copy-paste)
hunter/companies/<company>.md the research brief from /hunter-research: what the team does, recent news
hunter/resumes/<role-id>.md the tailored resume: the only source of proof points
hunter/covers/<role-id>.md the letter

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