resume-tailor Skill for Claude: Tailor a Resume to One Job Posting

Makes Claude adjust your resume for one job posting by reordering, rephrasing and adding keywords, without making anything up.

Installs: 9.6K; on skills.sh
Stars: 3K; on GitHub
Updated: Jun 2026; last repo commit

Claude follows 3 steps: analyze the job, audit each resume section, then make strategic adjustments to the summary, skills, experience and education. It reports a list of changes in a fixed layout: before and after for the summary, a new skills order, moves and rewrites for each job, and an estimated new match score.

SKILL.md draws a hard line: reordering and emphasizing true experience is fine, while adding skills, changing numbers, inventing experience, titles or certifications is not. It says to use it after job-description-analyzer, and it bundles no scripts.

Good for

Job seekers applying to several roles with one master resume
Career changers who need the right experience up front
People who want a before-and-after list of changes, not a rewritten file

Install resume-tailor

Claude Code

Copy this prompt.

Install the resume-tailor skill in Claude Code. Run this command:

npx skills add Paramchoudhary/ResumeSkills -g -y

Then check that it loaded and tell me how to use it.

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Paste it into Claude Code. It shows the change and asks before running it.

Requires Node.js.

The README command installs the whole repo (the README says 20 skills; the repo's skills folder holds 22), globally with -g. Drop -g to install for the current project only. It does not name an agent. resume-tailor's SKILL.md says to run job-description-analyzer first, so the single-skill command installs both.

From the project README. Source.

What's in the skill

When it loads

Customize resume for specific job postings while maintaining truthfulness

Sections in SKILL.md

When to Use This Skill
Core Capabilities
The Tailoring Philosophy
Tailoring Process
Step 1: Analyze the Job (Use Job Description Analyzer First)
Step 2: Audit Your Resume
Step 3: Make Strategic Adjustments
Section-by-Section Tailoring Guide
Professional Summary
Skills Section Reordering
Experience Section
Tailoring Templates
For Each Job Application, Create:
RESUME TAILORING PLAN
Summary Customization
Skills Reordering

Key facts

Author: Paramchoudhary (repo owner)
Folder: 1 file: SKILL.md
Works in: Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf, Codex, Gemini CLI, Amp, Antigravity, Augment and 30+ more
Pairs with: job-description-analyzer, run first
Installs on skills.sh: 9,627 (Nov 2, 2026)
GitHub stars: 2,985 (Nov 2, 2026)
License: MIT
Last repo commit: Jun 19, 2026

What it includes

Identifies required skills, keywords, the company's priorities and the main duties.
SKILL.md says to use the Job Description Analyzer for this step.
Step 1: Analyze the Job
Asks of each section whether it supports your case for this specific role.
Three questions per section: does it support the role, is there a better phrasing, and should it move up or down.
Step 2: Audit Your Resume
Rewrites the summary, reorders skills, reorders jobs and bullets, adds keywords.
Education changes are limited to highlighting relevant coursework and certifications.
Step 3: Make Strategic Adjustments
Examples for a summary, skills ordering and 3 experience strategies.
The experience strategies are reorder jobs, swap bullet order and adjust bullet language.
Section-by-section guide
A per-application plan: target, match score, summary, skills and job-by-job edits.
Fields include the current and tailored summary, skills order and keywords added.
Tailoring plan template
Technical role at a non-tech firm, management, startup and big company.
Each scenario names a challenge and a strategy.
Four scenarios
Four do rules, four don't rules and a list of acceptable versus unacceptable edits.
Unacceptable: adding skills you lack, changing numbers or metrics, fake experience, titles you did not hold, certifications you do not have.
Keyword rules and truth line
Keep one master resume and name each version by role, company and date.
The naming pattern is [LastName]_Resume_[TargetRole]_[Company]_[Date].
Version management
A change list, not a finished document, with an estimated new match score.
A 10-point checklist runs from the summary naming the job title to saving notes for interview prep.
Try: “Tailor my resume for this posting using the resume-tailor skill: [paste resume and posting]”
Tailored Resume Changes output

From the official docs

Questions

What does resume-tailor do?

It makes Claude adapt your resume to one job posting. It reorders sections, rewrites the summary, adds the posting's keywords where they are true, and lists every change.

Will it make up experience?

SKILL.md tells it not to. It lists adding skills you lack, changing numbers, creating fake experience, claiming titles you did not hold and stating certifications you do not have as unacceptable. Still check every line before you send the resume.

Do I need job-description-analyzer first?

SKILL.md says to use it after job-description-analyzer and to always start there, so you know what to emphasize. The install box installs both together.

How do I install resume-tailor?

Use the install box above. The README's one command installs the whole repo (it says 20 skills; the repo's skills folder holds 22). The single-skill command here installs this skill and job-description-analyzer. The Claude tab shows the ZIP upload for the Claude app.

Does it need an API key?

SKILL.md names none, and the folder has only SKILL.md.

Is it safe to use?

It bundles no scripts and works on text you paste. Your resume holds personal details, so share only what you are comfortable giving Claude.

Information

updated Nov 2, 2026

Repository: paramchoudhary/resumeskills
Folder: skills/resume-tailor

paramchoudhary/resumeskills skills.sh

Sources

Docs, issue trackers and discussions this page is built from.

Show all 3

resume-tailor SKILL.md · github.com
ResumeSkills README · github.com
job-description-analyzer SKILL.md · github.com