CodesWhat
OrganizationCareerRat — Rate, Apply, Track. Chat-first agentic job-search workspace: find, vet, tailor, track, and prep for roles with your own AI CLI.
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Indexed Skills (25)
company-health
Role-scoped company-health/sentiment signal — web-search layoff risk, hiring momentum, financials, sentiment, and leadership stability for the candidate's target function, score a healthy|watch|risky rating with provenance, persist it to the tracker, and cross-cut the fit score only where it hits a stated candidate need.
discover-companies
Continuously discover companies LIKELY to be hiring the candidate's target roles from their company thesis and role context → resolve each to a scannable ATS careers board → legitimacy-screen and dedup → propose adding to CareerRat tracked-company source config, confirm-first. Named focus companies are priority examples, never an allowlist. Upstream of search-jobs; turns a closed company set into a growing one.
ingest-mail
Read job-search email updates from Apple Mail on macOS or, with separate mail_access consent, Gmail/Outlook webmail through the session browser; fold recruiter replies and status changes into CareerRat tracker communication state. Opt-in, local-only, read-only.
ingest-messages
Read in-platform DMs from LinkedIn and Wellfound via the session browser and fold them into tracker communications[] — the browser analog of ingest-mail. Opt-in, user-initiated, local-only. Capability = messaging; platforms = linkedin, wellfound.
reevaluate-strategy
Learn from accumulated outcomes — read the funnel, rejections, interview transcripts, and wins, then recommend concrete tuning to targeting signals, comp anchoring, fit calibration, channel mix, and writing-style. Triggered by outcome thresholds or an explicit review request.
relationship-sourcing
Find likely recruiters, hiring-team members, or warm contacts for tracked companies through the session browser, then capture candidate-reviewed leads into Network. Opt-in, user-initiated, local-only. Capability = relationship_sourcing; platforms = linkedin, wellfound.
research-boards
Web-search + legitimacy-screen NEW job boards for the candidate's domain/role families -> propose adding through `careerrat searches`, confirm-first.
research-comp
Web-search market comp for a role+location → cited workspace/research/comp-bench-*.md that feeds evaluate-job COMP CHECK/ANCHOR and a confirm-first gate write-back.
research-company
Web-search a company across six domain-neutral axes → compose a cited workspace/research/<slug>.md artifact that feeds interview-prep and evaluate-job FIT context.
search-jobs
Run the top-of-funnel sourced sweep — scan configured sources, dedupe, check liveness, coarse-triage every new entry with fitScore/fitBucket/fitBasis, save JD bodies, write watermarks, and optionally hand top sourced roles to evaluate-job. Does not tailor, fill, or submit.
sync-status
Read application status from ATS dashboards via the session browser, normalize each raw label to the canonical tracker vocabulary, and hand real transitions to track-outcomes — which remains the only writer of workspace/tracker.json. Opt-in, user-initiated, read-only at the portal.
answer-question
Evidence-grounded drafted answers to one-off application-form or screening questions — reuses persisted `screening_answers` first, grounds new answers in profile/honesty/evidence, and never fabricates (the unanswerable case is the literal `NEEDS YOU` marker, never a guess). Durable disclosure-style answers (work authorization, sponsorship, relocation, notice period, clearance status, start date) persist back to candidate form defaults `screening_answers` so they're never re-asked; job-specific answers are never persisted. Capability = local files only — no browser, no submission.
apply-job
End-to-end job application workflow — gates on app limits and evaluate-job verdict, tailors artifacts, builds the render, fills the ATS form (including LinkedIn Easy Apply one-click path), verifies submission, and updates the tracker.
calendar-sync
Write tracker-derived interviews, assessments, follow-ups, prep blocks, and deadlines to Apple Calendar, Google Calendar, Outlook, or approved local automation tools. Opt-in, user-initiated, confirm-first. Capability = calendar_sync; platforms = apple_calendar, google_calendar, outlook_calendar, automation_tools.
configure
Show current settings and route changes to the validated CLI or owning skill — never a new mutation path itself.
email-comms
Draft, reply to, follow up on, summarize, and track job-search email and recruiter-message threads — including thank-yous, scheduling, negotiation, and cold outreach — while persisting full thread context in the CareerRat tracker.
evaluate-job
Body-read gate for a single job posting — fetch, save, check limits/comp/fit, emit GATE/FIT/COMP/ACTION, and write calibrated fit back to the tracker. Run before any tailoring or submission.
ingest-profile
Interview a new candidate to produce all user-layer config files: profile, targeting, evidence, honesty boundaries, form defaults, writing style, personalized AGENTS.md, and seed search sources. Run on first setup or any major profile change.
interview-prep
Build interview packets, script live comp answers, and capture post-interview debriefs and durable lessons from a saved JD, tracker record, candidate evidence, and interview invite context.
optimize-linkedin
Read the candidate's LinkedIn profile through the session browser, diff it against their targeting + evidence, and propose honest, evidence-backed rewrites of the headline / About / experience / skills / Featured — then, with a separate opt-in, write the approved edits back confirm-first per field. Dry-run preview is the default and always the first move. Opt-in, user-initiated, local-only. Capabilities = profile_optimize (read+suggest), profile_apply (write-back); platform = linkedin.
report-issue
When CareerRat itself looks broken — a crash, stack trace, non-zero exit, or clearly-wrong output — diagnose it, assemble redacted diagnostics, and (only with the user's explicit yes) open a GitHub issue on the upstream CareerRat repo.
schedule-meeting
Handle recruiter / hiring-team scheduling threads — read the proposed slots, the candidate's timezone and availability, and any calendar context; draft a clear availability reply, prepare a calendar-ready hold, and write scheduling state back to the tracker. Confirm-first before any outbound reply or calendar write. Degrades to a draft-only workflow when no calendar connector is available.
setup-searches
Build and maintain source config from candidate targeting through `careerrat searches` — generate a baseline from role buckets, curate enabled sources, add or import individual searches (including pasted board URLs with embedded filters preserved), and tune global filters. Upstream of search-jobs; does not scan.
tailor-application
Generate finished, honest role-specific resumes, cover letters, short answers, and non-message outreach artifacts from a saved JD, source resume facts, candidate evidence bank, writing style, and form defaults after the job passes the CareerRat gate. Reject unresolved placeholders. Use email-comms for email replies, follow-ups, thank-yous, scheduling, negotiation, and recruiter-message threads.
track-outcomes
Record application outcomes, execute status transitions in tracker.json, append durable patterns to role-family learning files, check reevaluation thresholds, and write back any mid-flow gate changes stated by the user.
Bio shown is the top-scored skill's repo description as a fallback — real GitHub bios land in a future update.