cover-letter

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---
name: cover-letter
description: >
  Drafts a tailored cover letter for a specific job posting from the user's REAL profile and
  resume facts, then routes the draft through the family's anti-fabrication gate so it never
  invents an accomplishment, employer, metric, or claim the user has not confirmed. Use when the
  user wants to write a cover letter, draft a cover letter for a posting, generate or tailor a
  cover letter to a job description, turn their resume into a cover letter, or write a letter of
  interest / motivation letter for a role. Produces a CoverLetter_[Company]_[Role].md (and
  optional .docx) saved to the workspace. Do not use for editing the resume itself (use
  resume-tailor), finding or scoring postings (use job-search), setting up a profile or parsing a
  resume (use career-profile), tracking applications or follow-ups (use application-tracker), or
  learning from outcomes (use outcome-learning). It never auto-sends — it drafts; the user sends.
license: MIT
compatibility: Cross-vendor (agentskills.io open standard) + cross-OS (Windows, macOS, Linux). Installs across Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, OpenClaw, and Hermes Agent. Works standalone or as the cover-letter member of the job-hunter family; reads the shared .job-hunter/ workspace (profile, parsed resume, scored postings) if present and degrades gracefully if absent.
metadata:
  spec_version: "agentskills.io (living spec; tracked 2026-05-29)"
  family: "job-hunter"
  family_role: "cover-letter"
allowed-tools: Read Write Edit Bash(python:*) Glob Grep WebSearch WebFetch
---

# cover-letter (family cover-letter member)

Write a cover letter that is **persuasive but never fabricated**. This is the
**cover-letter** member of the job-hunter family. It maps to the same "prepare
your application materials" stage as resume-tailor, and it shares resume-tailor's
single most important rule: **the literal truth of every factual claim is
preserved.** A cover letter is prose, which makes it *easier* to fabricate into
than a resume — an unguarded draft will happily invent a metric, a past employer,
or a personal anecdote. This skill exists to make that impossible by routing every
draft through the family's `verify_no_fabrication` gate.

## When to use this skill

Use this when the user wants to **write or tailor a cover letter**:

- "Write a cover letter for this posting" / "draft a cover letter for the Stripe PM role"
- "Turn my resume into a cover letter for this job"
- "Write a letter of interest / motivation letter for this role"
- "Tailor my cover letter to this job description"

Do **not** use this skill for editing the resume document (use **resume-tailor**),
finding or scoring postings (use **job-search**), profile/resume intake (use
**career-profile**), tracking applications (use **application-tracker**), or
outcome learning (use **outcome-learning**). Under the `job-hunter` orchestrator,
a full hunt routes here after resume-tailor for any posting the user applies to.

## Inputs (workspace contract)

This member reads upstream artifacts **if present** and **degrades gracefully**
if absent, so it also works standalone (see `references/workspace-contract.md`,
shipped with this skill; the `job-hunter` orchestrator owns the canonical copy):

- **`.job-hunter-profile.md`** (career-profile): the North-Star facts — target
  archetype, what the user actually cares about. Shapes tone and emphasis.
- **Parsed resume text** (career-profile): the SOURCE OF TRUTH for every factual
  claim the letter may make — employers, titles, dates, skills, accomplishments,
  numbers. The letter may only assert what is supported here (or what the user
  states directly in the conversation).
- **`postings.json`** (job-search): company, title, location, and the posting
  text to tailor against. If absent, ask the user to paste the posting.

If no resume/profile is available, ask the user for their background and the
posting text directly. Never proceed to a finished letter without sourc