cover-letter-writer SKILL.md skillA
cover-letter-writer from skillmedev/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add skillmedev/skills/cover-letter-writer@git:20260705.a28c4cePins git:20260705.a28c4ce in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- skillmedev/skills
- Path
skills/cover-letter-writer/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260705.a28c4ce, committed Jul 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 5, 2026
- Size
- 8,061 bytes
- Repository stars
- 19
- License
- MIT
Writes a tailored cover letter from a resume and a job posting - mirrors the posting's top three requirements with resume evidence, opens with a company-specific hook, and stays under 300 words. Use when a user says "write me a cover letter for this job", "tailor my cover letter to this posting", "here's my resume and the job ad, draft a cover letter", or "why is my cover letter not getting responses". Do NOT use for writing or improving the resume itself - use resume-writer instead - and do…
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
# Cover Letter Writer A cover letter has one job - earn a resume read from a screener who spends under thirty seconds on it - and most letters fail in the first sentence by opening with "I am writing to apply for" and then restating the resume the screener is about to read anyway. The costly mistake this skill prevents is the generic letter - one that could be sent to any company with a find-and-replace - because screeners detect those instantly and treat them as evidence of low interest. A tailored letter answers three specific questions the posting is asking and proves the candidate did homework the other applicants skipped. ## Operating procedure Follow these steps in order. Requirement extraction comes before any writing, because the letter's entire structure hangs on which three requirements it answers - draft prose first and the letter drifts back into a resume summary. 1. **Collect the inputs.** Get the resume, the full job posting, and any company hook material (see Inputs below). Do not proceed on the posting title alone; the ranked requirements live in the body text. …
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How to install
mdr add skillmedev/skills/cover-letter-writer@sha256:43c83fa79af43f0eThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260705.a28c4ce, 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.
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The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, all committed on Jul 5, 2026.
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| git:20260705.a28c4ce latest | 2026-07-05 | a28c4ce | 8,061 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260705.acb5571 | 2026-07-05 | acb5571 | 8,129 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
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- 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
skillmedev/skills · 19 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-13 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_cn5v654qo3bzizzd GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=skillmedev/skills/cover-letter-writer GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/43c83fa79af43f0ee4860413697dbfcb16b63e51a99275fa85ced65c05da8a2e
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