The Most-Starred Repo on GitHub Today Applies to Jobs For You
Two thousand four hundred stars in a single day, straight to number one on GitHub trending. And ai-job-search isn't a model or a framework, it's a job hunt that runs itself.
The idea is almost dumb in how direct it is. You fork the repo, drop in your resume and what you're looking for, and Claude Code takes over: it searches job boards, reads each posting, decides whether you actually fit, then rewrites your CV and drafts a cover letter tuned to that specific role. There's a drafter-reviewer loop baked in, one Claude writes the application and another one critiques it before it goes out, so you're not shipping the first sloppy draft. It's language- and country-agnostic, and the job-portal search is a pluggable skill, so you point it at whatever market you're in.
What makes this interesting isn't the tech, it's the shape. This is Claude Code being used as an everyday-life agent, not a coding tool. No custom app, no startup, no funding round, just a GitHub repo, a SKILL.md, and one person's personal problem turned into a template that ten thousand people forked in a week. The whole agent-skills movement so far has been about giving agents new capabilities from the top down. This is the other half: ordinary people packaging their own workflows and handing them out for free.
The honest caveat is that mass-applying with AI-tailored resumes is exactly the arms race breaking hiring right now. Recruiters are drowning in machine-written applications and firing back with machine-written screens. But that's the point. The job market is becoming agent-versus-agent, and this repo is just the first cheap, open weapon anyone can pick up.
Repo: github.com/MadsLorentzen/ai-job-search
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The idea is almost dumb in how direct it is. You fork the repo, drop in your resume and what you're looking for, and Claude Code takes over: it searches job boards, reads each posting, decides whether you actually fit, then rewrites your CV and drafts a cover letter tuned to that specific role. There's a drafter-reviewer loop baked in, one Claude writes the application and another one critiques it before it goes out, so you're not shipping the first sloppy draft. It's language- and country-agnostic, and the job-portal search is a pluggable skill, so you point it at whatever market you're in.
What makes this interesting isn't the tech, it's the shape. This is Claude Code being used as an everyday-life agent, not a coding tool. No custom app, no startup, no funding round, just a GitHub repo, a SKILL.md, and one person's personal problem turned into a template that ten thousand people forked in a week. The whole agent-skills movement so far has been about giving agents new capabilities from the top down. This is the other half: ordinary people packaging their own workflows and handing them out for free.
The honest caveat is that mass-applying with AI-tailored resumes is exactly the arms race breaking hiring right now. Recruiters are drowning in machine-written applications and firing back with machine-written screens. But that's the point. The job market is becoming agent-versus-agent, and this repo is just the first cheap, open weapon anyone can pick up.
Repo: github.com/MadsLorentzen/ai-job-search
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