resume-tailor

Customize resume for specific job postings while maintaining truthfulness

Quality

38%

Does it follow best practices?

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Quality

Discovery

50%

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

The description communicates the core purpose—customizing resumes for job postings—and includes a useful constraint about truthfulness, but it lacks specific concrete actions, an explicit 'Use when...' trigger clause, and broader keyword coverage. It is functional but would benefit from more detail to help Claude reliably select it from a large skill library.

Suggestions

Add an explicit 'Use when...' clause with trigger terms like 'tailor resume', 'job application', 'job description', 'CV', 'ATS'.

List specific concrete actions such as 'adjusts keywords to match job descriptions, reorders experience sections, highlights relevant skills, and rewrites bullet points'.

Include common term variations like 'CV', 'job description', 'job application', 'career' to improve trigger term coverage.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	Names the domain (resume customization for job postings) and one key constraint (maintaining truthfulness), but doesn't list specific concrete actions like tailoring bullet points, adjusting keywords, reordering sections, or matching skills to requirements.	2 / 3
Completeness	Answers 'what' (customize resume for job postings) but lacks an explicit 'Use when...' clause or equivalent trigger guidance, which per the rubric caps completeness at 2.	2 / 3
Trigger Term Quality	Contains natural keywords like 'resume' and 'job postings' that users would say, but misses common variations like 'CV', 'job application', 'tailor resume', 'job description', 'cover letter', or 'ATS optimization'.	2 / 3
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	Somewhat specific to resume customization, but could overlap with general resume writing/editing skills or broader job application assistance skills. The 'maintaining truthfulness' constraint adds some distinction but isn't enough to create a clear niche.	2 / 3
	Total	8 / 12 Passed

Implementation

27%

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

This skill is far too verbose for what it teaches—most of the content describes resume tailoring concepts that Claude already understands. The before/after examples are the strongest element, providing concrete illustrations of the tailoring process. However, the skill would benefit enormously from being cut to roughly 1/3 its current size, with detailed scenarios and templates moved to separate reference files.

Suggestions

Cut the content to ~80-100 lines by removing explanatory prose (e.g., 'The Tailoring Philosophy' section, obvious DO/DON'T lists) and trusting Claude's existing knowledge of resume conventions and truthfulness.

Extract the 'Common Tailoring Scenarios,' 'Keyword Integration Rules,' 'Truth vs. Tailoring Line,' and 'Version Management' sections into separate referenced files to improve progressive disclosure.

Add an explicit validation step in the workflow, such as 'After tailoring, verify keyword match rate against the JD analyzer output; if below 70%, revisit experience adjustments.'

Define a clear structured input format (e.g., what the user provides: master resume + JD analyzer output) and tighten the output format to a concrete schema rather than a loose markdown template.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	Extremely verbose at ~300+ lines. Explains obvious concepts like 'Think of your full experience as a library of achievements,' defines what tailoring means (Claude already knows), includes lengthy scenario descriptions, and repeats the same truthfulness principle multiple times. Much of this content is common sense that Claude doesn't need spelled out.	1 / 3
Actionability	Provides concrete before/after examples for summaries, skills reordering, and bullet adjustments, which is helpful. However, there's no executable code or tool usage—it's all instructional prose and markdown templates. The guidance is specific enough to act on but lacks the precision of truly actionable skills (e.g., no structured input/output schema, no programmatic steps).	2 / 3
Workflow Clarity	The 3-step tailoring process is clearly sequenced and the checklist at the end provides validation. However, there are no explicit feedback loops or verification checkpoints—no step says 'validate keyword match score before proceeding' or 'if match score is below X, revisit Step 3.' The dependency on job-description-analyzer is mentioned but not integrated into the workflow with clear handoff points.	2 / 3
Progressive Disclosure	This is a monolithic wall of text with no references to external files despite being well over 200 lines. The common tailoring scenarios, keyword integration rules, truth vs. tailoring guidelines, and version management sections could all be separate reference files. Everything is inlined, making this a massive single document that will consume significant context window.	1 / 3
	Total	6 / 12 Passed

Validation

100%

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Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 11 / 11 Passed

Validation for skill structure

No warnings or errors.

Repository: paramchoudhary/resumeskills
Commit: 24c6edc

Reviewed: 13 days ago

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