🎯 Resume Tailor Agent Skill

AI-powered resume tailoring agent for Cursor, Claude Code, and OpenCode.

A free, open-source, local AI agent that crafts tailored resumes specific to job postings. Compatible with the official JSON Resume standard, this agent runs entirely locally via your AI CLI or IDE.

The Problem

• 75% of resumes are rejected functionally by ATS systems.
• You shouldn't have to pay $40/month for a resume tailoring service when you have access to powerful AI models in your CLI or IDE.
• Generic AI prompts hallucinate experience, invent skills, and break formatting.

Resume Tailor solves this with strict guardrails, bundled behavioral hiring research, and proposal-based interaction.

Features

• Multi-Platform: Native support for Cursor, Claude Code, and OpenCode.
• JSON Resume Standard: Reads and writes to the official JSON Resume specification. No proprietary formats.
• Strict Guardrails: Will never invent or hallucinate experience. Requires approval for all bullet modifications.
• ATS-Optimized Exports: Generates clean, parser-friendly PDFs that score high in Applicant Tracking Systems.
• Bundled Research Base: Shipped with current research on ATS psychology, domain-specific keywords (DevOps, Platform, Product, etc.), and executive framing.
• Application Tracking: Integrated state management for tracking tailoring iterations.

Prerequisites

• Node.js v20+
• An environment running AI agents:
  • Cursor
  • Claude Code (npm install -g @anthropic/claude-code)
  • OpenCode (npm install -g opencode)

Installation

Interactive (recommended)

Run this in a real terminal (PowerShell, Git Bash, macOS Terminal, etc.). You should see four questions:

1. Platform (Cursor / Claude Code / OpenCode)
2. Install location (global / project / custom)
3. Resume seed (none / example / import file)
4. Install PDF dependencies? (puppeteer)

npx @mikehenken/create-resume-tailor@latest

npx --yes only skips npx’s own “install this package?” prompt. It does not skip the installer questions:

# Still interactive:
npx --yes @mikehenken/create-resume-tailor@latest

Non-interactive (CI / scripted)

Pass --non-interactive (or --yes) after the package name — that is what skips the questions:

npx @mikehenken/create-resume-tailor@latest --non-interactive --platform claude --install-location global --resume example

From a local clone:

git clone https://github.com/mikehenken/resume-tailor-agent-skill.git
cd resume-tailor-agent-skill
npm install
node bin/cli.mjs

Multi-profile (chat)

After install, in Claude/Cursor:

• List profiles
• Onboard a new candidate from this resume (attach PDF/DOCX or paste)
• Set default profile to jordan-lee
• Tailor jordan-lee for Platform Engineer at Acme

Each tailor stores profile_id so concurrent sessions for different candidates stay isolated.

Claude Code / Cowork plugin (v1.2+)

Download resume-tailor-plugin-v*.zip from GitHub Releases and upload in Plugins, or:

claude plugin marketplace add mikehenken/resume-tailor-agent-skill
claude plugin install resume-tailor@mikehenken-resume-tailor

Portable user data (no ~/.claude required): profiles and tailors live in ./.resume-tailor in your workspace, or set RESUME_TAILOR_USER_DIR to a granted folder in Cowork. No setup scripts — say "Onboard me from this resume" or "Tailor for …" in chat; the agent creates folders automatically.

Build plugin locally: npm run build:plugin

Usage

1. Open your configured CLI/IDE (e.g. claude, opencode, or Cursor command palette).
2. Tell the agent:

   "Tailor my resume for Platform Engineer at Acme Corp"

3. The agent will read your profile.json, propose changes based on bundled research, and compile the final tailored state.json.
4. It will then generate an ATS-ready PDF using the export scripts.

License

MIT © Mike Henken