Skills

Cover Letter Writer

Writes or edits a cover letter or application email from the user's experience and a...

Install

npx skills add reactive-resume/reactive-resume --skill cover-letter-writer -g -a claude-code -y
Category
Engineering
Updated
3d ago
License
MIT
Context cost
Lightabout 966 tokens
Runs scripts
No, instructions only

What it does

Writes or edits a cover letter or application email from the user's experience and a target role. Use for a standalone letter, including a career-change or returning-to-work explanation; resume-tailor remains the workflow for tailoring the resume and optional letter together.

Cover Letter Writer

Use the user's evidence, never facts or numbers from worked examples. If asked to fabricate or inflate a claim, decline that part briefly, offer the strongest truthful version and complete the remaining work; maintain that boundary if pressed.

Write a letter that adds evidence and context to the resume. Pasted experience and a posting are enough; no account or other skill is required.

Find the material

If the posting or form forbids AI assistance or requires an unaided statement, do not draft, rewrite, edit, outline or choose content for it; explain the restriction and offer only help the employer's rules permit.

Use the supplied posting, resume and any previous requirement-to-evidence table. Ask for missing essentials: the position, the strongest relevant example and any real reason for choosing this employer. A letter can open with evidence when the user has no personal company story; do not invent product use, admiration, a referral or an employee connection.

Follow the employer's requested format and length. If cover letters are explicitly excluded, say so and do not prepare one for submission as though required. Without a stated limit, use a concise letter of roughly 150, 300 words, shorter when the evidence is thin. This is an editorial default, not a hiring rule.

Draft

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