cover-letter SKILL.md skillA

cover-letter from muvon/octomind-tap is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add muvon/octomind-tap/cover-letter@git:20261013.a69e0bb

Pins git:20261013.a69e0bb in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: muvon/octomind-tap
Path: skills/cover-letter/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 5
Latest version: git:20261013.a69e0bb, committed Oct 13, 2026
First version recorded: Jul 5, 2026
Size: 5,676 bytes
Repository stars: 6
License: Apache-2.0

Write a cover letter that a hiring manager actually reads: grounded in the candidate's real experience, tailored to the specific posting and company, structured for a hiring-manager skim, and free of the generic AI-template phrasing that gets letters discarded. Truthful, specific, and human.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

## Overview

A cover letter's job is to connect the candidate's real, specific experience to this specific role and company in a way a busy hiring manager grasps in a skim. Most cover letters fail by being generic — interchangeable praise that could be sent to any company — or by restating the resume. This skill encodes how to write one that earns its read.

Every claim traces to the candidate's actual background. A cover letter that invents enthusiasm, achievements, or fit is worse than none.

## Mental model

Generative AI made fluent, well-aligned letters free, so fluency no longer signals anything. On a large online labour platform, after an AI cover-letter tool launched, the link between letter-to-job alignment and callbacks fell by about half and employers shifted weight to work history; time spent editing the AI draft still predicted hiring (Cui, Dias & Ye, 2025). What still carries signal is what a generic draft can't produce: verifiable specifics about this candidate and this company.

## Instructions

### What a good cover letter does
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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add muvon/octomind-tap/cover-letter@sha256:de8b695b45333f69

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261013.a69e0bb, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_amjvue6f4mdxayrd.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_amjvue6f4mdxayrd)

5 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Jul 5, 2026 and Oct 13, 2026, about one every 25 days.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20261013.a69e0bb latest	2026-10-13	a69e0bb	5,676 B	A	view · diff
git:20260918.0cc46bd	2026-09-18	0cc46bd	4,226 B	A	view · diff
git:20260918.eb4c4b4	2026-09-18	eb4c4b4	4,221 B	A	view · diff
git:20260713.4d90955	2026-07-13	4d90955	4,224 B	A	view · diff
git:20260705.2c8440f	2026-07-05	2c8440f	4,291 B	A	view

Audit of the latest version

A 17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.

pass: Frontmatter block present
pass: Frontmatter declares a name
pass: Frontmatter declares a description
pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (5676 bytes)
pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
pass: No credential-shaped string
pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
pass: No text hidden with inline styles
pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
pass: No link to a raw IP address
pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

muvon/octomind-tap · 6 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch master

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_amjvue6f4mdxayrd
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=muvon/octomind-tap/cover-letter
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/de8b695b45333f69e87fc951ca6a60d81e05a3ca51fad7f7f099d6289baa5252

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

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