career-ops README

The project's README from github.com/career-ops-hq/career-ops. As one markdown file: README.md.

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career-ops Multi-Agent Job Search System

I spent months applying to jobs the hard way. So I engineered the system I wish I had.
Companies use AI to filter candidates. I just gave candidates AI to choose companies.
Now it's open source.


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740+ job listings evaluated · 100+ personalized CVs · 1 dream role landed

Created and maintained by Santiago Fernández de Valderrama Aparicio (@santifer)

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Built with Claude Code

Also runs on any agent-skill-standard CLI. See Supported CLIs.
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What Is This

career-ops (career-ops.org, also known as careerops) is an open-source AI job search that runs locally inside any AI coding CLI: it evaluates offers, tailors your CV and tracks every application, and you always have the final call. Instead of manually tracking applications in a spreadsheet, you get an AI-powered pipeline that:

Important: This is NOT a spray-and-pray tool. career-ops is a filter -- it helps you find the few offers worth your time out of hundreds. The system strongly recommends against applying to anything scoring below 4.0/5. Your time is valuable, and so is the recruiter's. Always review before submitting.

career-ops is agentic: whichever AI coding CLI you choose navigates career pages with Playwright, evaluates fit by reasoning about your CV vs the job description (not keyword matching), and adapts your resume per listing.

Heads up: the first evaluations won't be great. The system doesn't know you yet. Feed it context -- your CV, your career story, your proof points, your preferences, what you're good at, what you want to avoid. The more you nurture it, the better it gets. Think of it as onboarding a new recruiter: the first week they need to learn about you, then they become invaluable.

Built by someone who used it to evaluate 740+ job offers, generate 100+ tailored CVs, and land a Head of Applied AI role. Read the full case study.

The CareerOps Manifesto

career-ops is the first reference implementation of the CareerOps Manifesto. read it. if it says what you believe, sign it. your signature becomes a commit.

Features

Feature Description
Auto-Pipeline Paste a URL, get a full evaluation + PDF + tracker entry
A-H Evaluation Role summary, CV match (with how much each requirement matters for this posting, and whether that weight came from the JD's own wording, its structure, or an estimate — labelled per requirement, and an estimate can never be top-band), level strategy, comp research, personalization, interview prep (STAR+R) -- plus a Block G posting-legitimacy check that flags scams and ghost jobs, and a Work-Auth signal that flags an explicit no-sponsorship JD as a hard blocker
Interview Story Bank Accumulates STAR+Reflection stories across evaluations -- 5-10 master stories that answer any behavioral question
Negotiation Scripts Salary negotiation frameworks, geographic discount pushback, competing offer leverage
ATS PDF Generation Keyword-injected CVs with Space Grotesk + DM Sans design
Cover Letter Generator Research-backed cover letters with keyword mirroring, four interactive angle prompts (why/problems/approach/tone), draft-in-chat approval gate, and A4 PDF via the same HTML + Playwright pipeline as CVs. Auto-drafts on every evaluation; complete and generate on demand via /career-ops cover
Application Email Drafts Formal recruiter/referral/cold application emails from a report or pasted JD, with subject line, attachment checklist, source-backed fit points, and a profile-driven contact block. Draft-only -- career-ops never sends, submits, or clicks anything.
Portal Scanner 100+ companies pre-configured (Anthropic, OpenAI, ElevenLabs, Retool, n8n...) + custom queries across Ashby, Greenhouse, Lever, Wellfound
Funded Company Discovery Review-first company:funded command surfaces recently funded companies and source diagnostics from structured public feeds without editing your data
Batch Processing Parallel evaluation with headless CLI workers (claude -p / opencode run)
Dashboard TUI Terminal UI to browse, filter, and sort your pipeline
Human-in-the-Loop AI evaluates and recommends, you decide and act. The system never submits an application -- you always have the final call
Pipeline Integrity Automated merge, dedup, status normalization, health checks
Interview Suite Time-blocked prep plans, practice sessions with feedback, post-interview debriefs (interview/), and a company red-flag detector (interview-redflag)
Offer Stage Contract reading companion -- clause walk plus a lawyer question list (offer-prep) -- and a desired/advertised/actual salary-gap analyzer (salary-gap.mjs)
Follow-ups & Replies Follow-up cadence calculator and seeded reminders (followup-cadence.mjs, followup-seed.mjs); employer reply classification into tracker updates (reply-watch)
Pattern Analysis Rejection patterns and per-ATS-channel advance rates (analyze-patterns.mjs), lifetime funnel stats (stats.mjs), repost/ghost-job detection (detect-reposts.mjs)
Plugin System Opt-in integrations (Gmail, Notion, Apify + a community registry), disabled by default -- see docs/PLUGINS.md
Beyond the CV Company research (deep) surfaces AI strategy, recent moves, engineering culture, and the angle your profile should take. Contact discovery (contacto) identifies the hiring manager, recruiter, or team peer worth reaching out to and drafts a ≤300-character LinkedIn message tuned to each contact type. Formal application email drafts (email) turn an evaluated report or pasted JD into a subject line, body, and attachment checklist without sending, submitting, or clicking anything. Applications get you in the queue; research gets you a conversation.

Quick Start

Fastest way — one command:

npx @santifer/career-ops init

💡 npx ships with Node.js — it runs the installer once, without installing anything globally. No Node yet? Install it first. (Already using a Claude Code / Gemini / Codex CLI? Then you already have it.)

This clones the latest release into ./career-ops and installs dependencies. Then:

cd career-ops
claude   # or codex / qwen / opencode / agy / grok — open your AI CLI here

On first launch, career-ops walks you through setup — your CV, profile and target roles — just by chatting. Nothing to edit by hand.

Prefer to set it up manually? (git clone)
git clone https://github.com/career-ops-hq/career-ops.git
cd career-ops && npm install
npx playwright install chromium   # only needed for PDF generation

# 2. Check setup
npm run doctor                     # Validates all prerequisites

# 3. Configure
cp config/profile.example.yml config/profile.yml  # Edit with your details
cp templates/portals.example.yml portals.yml       # Customize companies

# 4. Add your CV
# Create cv.md in the project root with your CV in markdown

# 5. Open your AI CLI in this directory
claude   # or codex / opencode / qwen / agy / grok

# Then ask your CLI to adapt the system to you:
# "Change the archetypes to backend engineering roles"
# "Translate the modes to English"
# "Add these 5 companies to portals.yml"
# "Update my profile with this CV I'm pasting"

# 6. Start using
# Paste a job URL or JD text to trigger auto-pipeline
# If your CLI supports slash commands, use /career-ops (or its CLI-specific alias)
# In Codex, ask for the same mode in plain language, e.g.:
# "Run the career-ops scan mode"
# "Run the career-ops pipeline mode for data/pipeline.md"
# "Run the career-ops pdf mode for the latest evaluated role"
# "Run the career-ops tracker mode and summarize the current statuses"

Global install

npm i -g @santifer/career-ops

This installs the career-ops binary globally so you can run it directly instead of via npx. Unlike npx @santifer/career-ops init (which bootstraps a project directory), the global install gives you a persistent career-ops command available anywhere in your terminal.

Which one should you use?

The system is designed to be customized by your AI coding CLI itself. Modes, archetypes, scoring weights, negotiation scripts -- just ask it to change them. It reads the same files it uses, so it knows exactly what to edit.

See docs/SETUP.md for the full setup guide, docs/RUNNING_ON_A_BUDGET.md for instructions on running career-ops cheaply using custom or local models (and docs/FREE_TIER.md for running it at zero cost on Antigravity CLI's free tier), docs/AUTOMATION.md for scheduling recurring scans and a zero-token triage-to-shortlist recipe, docs/APPLY_AUTOFILL.md for details on the ATS auto-fill flow, docs/LINKEDIN_JOIN.md for cross-referencing a LinkedIn connections export against the companies in your funnel, and docs/FAQ.md for answers to common setup questions, including how story provenance prevents invented numbers. Design principles live in ARCHITECTURE.md; runtime flows in docs/ARCHITECTURE.md.

Antigravity CLI Integration

career-ops supports Antigravity CLI natively, the same way it supports Claude Code and OpenCode. All slash commands are available through the shared skill entrypoint, using the same modes/*.md evaluation logic.

Google has transitioned consumer Gemini CLI access to Antigravity CLI. GEMINI.md is now a no-op compatibility guard so Antigravity does not duplicate the full project instructions when it reads both AGENTS.md and GEMINI.md.

Native Antigravity CLI

# 1. Run in the career-ops directory
cd career-ops
agy

# 2. Use the unified /career-ops command with subcommands:
/career-ops "Senior AI Engineer at Anthropic..."
/career-ops pipeline
/career-ops scan
/career-ops pdf
/career-ops tracker

The skill is defined using the open standard in .agents/skills/career-ops/SKILL.md and symlinked/referenced for each supported CLI (e.g. .claude/, .cursor/, .qwen/, .antigravitycli/, .grok/).

Codex Integration

career-ops supports Codex through the same shared router, but the invocation model is different from CLIs that auto-register slash commands. For the full guide, see docs/CODEX.md.

Interactive Codex

cd career-ops
codex

Slash commands are not guaranteed in Codex. If /career-ops is unavailable, ask Codex to run the mode directly in plain language:

Evaluate this JD with career-ops auto-pipeline: https://company.com/jobs/123
Run the career-ops scan mode and summarize new matches.
Run the career-ops pipeline mode for data/pipeline.md.
Run the career-ops pdf mode for the latest evaluated role.
Run the career-ops tracker mode and summarize the current statuses.

One-shot Codex (codex exec)

codex exec "Evaluate this JD with career-ops auto-pipeline: https://company.com/jobs/123"
codex exec "Run career-ops scan mode in this repo and summarize new matches."
codex exec "Run career-ops pipeline mode for data/pipeline.md."
codex exec "Run career-ops pdf mode for the latest evaluated role."
codex exec "Run career-ops tracker mode and summarize the current statuses."

Grok Build CLI Integration

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What is this?career-ops is an open-source AI job search agent that runs locally inside your AI coding CLI (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode and more) to scan job boards, score each job 1-5 against your CV, tailor a resume and cover letter per listing, and track every application — but you always press Submit yourself.
Is this a standalone app or does it live inside another tool?It's an agent skill package, not a standalone app you open — your existing AI coding CLI (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Antigravity, Gemini CLI, etc.) loads it and runs its slash commands and scripts for you.
How do I get it running?Run 'npx @santifer/career-ops init' — it clones the latest release into ./career-ops and installs dependencies; on first launch it walks you through setting up your CV, profile and target roles just by chatting. For a persistent command instead of npx, run 'npm i -g @santifer/career-ops'.
Which coding agents does it work with, and what else do I need?You need Node.js (npx ships with it) and an AI coding CLI that supports agent skills — Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Antigravity CLI, Gemini CLI, Grok Build and other agent-skill-standard CLIs are all supported. Under the hood it uses Playwright to navigate job portals.
Does it submit job applications for me?No — career-ops only evaluates, drafts, and recommends; you always have the final call and press Submit yourself. It explicitly never sends emails or clicks an apply button, and it tells you not to apply to anything scoring below 4.0/5.
Who is this built for?Job seekers who want an AI-driven filter instead of spray-and-pray applying — it's aimed at people willing to feed it their CV and career context so it can learn their profile and improve its scoring over time.
Can I run this on Windows, Mac or Linux?Yes — it's a Node.js CLI package that installs via npx/npm, so it runs cross-platform wherever Node 18+ and your AI coding CLI are available; a Docker setup is also provided.
What does the A-H evaluation report actually contain?It covers role summary, CV match with per-requirement importance weighting, level strategy, comp research, personalization, STAR+R interview prep, a posting-legitimacy check that flags scams and ghost jobs, and a work-authorization blocker check — reaching a single holistic 1-5 score.
Can I run career-ops for free or on a budget?Yes — docs/RUNNINGONABUDGET.md covers using cheap or local models, and docs/FREETIER.md documents running it at zero cost on Antigravity CLI's free tier.
Does it only find jobs, or also help with interviews and negotiation?Beyond scanning and tailoring CVs, it builds an interview story bank (STAR+Reflection), runs interview prep and debriefs, generates salary negotiation scripts, and analyzes a contract's clauses before you accept an offer.
How does it find jobs to evaluate?It scans 100+ pre-configured companies (Anthropic, OpenAI, ElevenLabs, Retool, n8n, etc.) plus custom queries across Ashby, Greenhouse, Lever, Wellfound and company career pages using Playwright.
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