Cover letter writer: personalized job application letters
Write personalized cover letters — winning formula, four templates, quantified-achievement tips, common mistakes
- What
- Write personalized cover letters — winning formula, four templates, quantified-achievement tips, common mistakes
- Cost
- Free
- Needs
- none — the skill is guidance only; paste the job posting text and your relevant experience when using it; no accounts or keys needed
- Install
- Copy the installer prompt below into your Muse — your agent does the rest.
Curated by Skill Harbor — the Claude Office Skills contributors' cover-letter playbook: a structured method (opening hook, value proposition, why-this-company, strong close) with four ready templates — standard professional, with referral, career change, entry-level/new graduate — plus writing tips (quantify every achievement: "grew sales 45% YoY, adding $2M in revenue" not "increased sales"), show-company-research prompts (recent news, values, products, culture), eight common mistakes to avoid (repeating the resume, too generic, salary talk too early), a fully worked example (Senior Software Engineer at Stripe), and customization options (tone, length, focus, industry). Works best with the job posting text and the user's experience pasted in. Honest caveats: it cannot fetch job postings itself — paste the text; letters must be proofread for dates and details; it cannot guarantee interview callbacks; MIT-licensed. Skill Harbor never reviews the code, review it yourself before use. Discovered via skills.sh.
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Prerequisites: none — the skill is guidance only; paste the job posting text and your relevant experience when using it; no accounts or keys needed Install "Cover letter writer: personalized job application letters" for me. A structured cover-letter playbook: the winning formula (opening hook, value proposition, why-this-company, strong close), four ready templates (standard professional, with referral, career change, entry-level/new graduate), writing tips (quantify achievements, show company research), eight common mistakes to avoid, a fully worked Stripe example, and customization options (tone, length, focus, industry). Repository: https://github.com/claude-office-skills/skills/blob/main/cover-letter/SKILL.md 1. Fetch the SKILL.md file (and any helper files) from the repository path into a temporary folder and summarize what it does in one or two sentences. 2. Safety check: review the SKILL.md and scripts for anything suspicious (unexpected network calls, shell commands, credential harvesting). This repo should contain zero secrets in code, credentials only via the secure vault, allowed hosts declared in the SKILL.md. Verify that holds here; STOP on any red flag and tell me. 3. Install it as a skill: copy SKILL.md and its helper files into the agent's skills directory, in a folder named "cover-letter". 4. Verify with no network calls: frontmatter valid, files in place. 5. Report what was installed, where, and what I still need to do myself (e.g. nothing — paste a job posting and my experience to generate a letter). GitHub is optional: if I have a GitHub account or the gh CLI, you may use it; otherwise public access is fine. Never require it unless it's in the prerequisites above. Rules: don't touch anything outside the temp folder and the install target. If anything looks off, stop and ask me.
Questions
How do I install a build?
Every product page includes a copy-paste install prompt. Paste it into your Muse and it sets the build up for you — no manual configuration.
Where does my money go?
Straight to the seller. Skill Harbor never processes payments: checkout happens on the seller’s own page, usually Stripe.
What does the ✓ next to a creator’s name mean?
It means we confirmed the identity of the person behind the listing. It says nothing about the code itself — always check a build before installing it.