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name: tailor
description: Research company/role and generate tailored multi-format resumes
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# Resume Tailoring Skill

## Overview

Generates high-quality, tailored resumes optimized for specific job descriptions while maintaining factual integrity. Builds resumes around the holistic person by surfacing undocumented experiences through conversational discovery.

**Core Principle:** Truth-preserving optimization - maximize fit while maintaining factual integrity. Never fabricate experience, but intelligently reframe and emphasize relevant aspects.

**Mission:** A person's ability to get a job should be based on their experiences and capabilities, not on their resume writing skills.

## When to Use

- User provides a job description and wants a tailored resume
- User has multiple existing resumes in markdown format
- User wants to optimize their application for a specific role/company
- User needs help surfacing and articulating undocumented experiences

**DO NOT use for:** Generic resume writing from scratch, cover letters, LinkedIn profiles.

## Quick Start

**Required from user:**
1. Job description (text or URL)
2. Resume library location (defaults to `resumes/` in current directory)

**Workflow:**
1. Build library from existing resumes
2. Research company/role
3. Create template (with user checkpoint)
4. Optional: Branching experience discovery
5. Match content with confidence scoring
6. Generate MD + DOCX + PDF + Report
7. User review → Optional library update

## Multi-Job Detection

When user provides multiple JDs, URLs, or mentions "multiple jobs" / "batch" / "several positions", offer multi-job mode for shared experience discovery and batch processing.

See `multi-job-workflow.md` for complete multi-job implementation.

## Workflow Phases

| Phase | Description | Details |
|-------|-------------|---------|
| Phase 0 | Library Initialization | `PHASES.md#phase-0` |
| Phase 1 | Research (company + role benchmarking) | `PHASES.md#phase-1` |
| Phase 2 | Template Generation | `PHASES.md#phase-2` |
| Phase 2.5 | Experience Discovery (optional) | `PHASES.md#phase-25` |
| Phase 3 | Assembly (matching + scoring) | `PHASES.md#phase-3` |
| Phase 4 | Generation (MD + DOCX + PDF + Report) | `PHASES.md#phase-4` |
| Phase 5 | Library Update (conditional) | `PHASES.md#phase-5` |

## Supporting Files

| File | Purpose |
|------|---------|
| `PHASES.md` | Detailed workflow for all phases |
| `EDGE_CASES.md` | Error handling and graceful degradation |
| `EXAMPLES.md` | Usage examples (internal role, career transition, gaps, batch) |
| `TESTING.md` | Manual testing checklist |
| `research-prompts.md` | Structured prompts for company/role research |
| `matching-strategies.md` | Content matching algorithms and scoring |
| `branching-questions.md` | Experience discovery conversation patterns |
| `multi-job-workflow.md` | Complete multi-job batch workflow |

## Key Constraints

- NEVER fabricate experience — reframe truthfully
- NEVER inflate seniority beyond defensible
- Company names and dates MUST be exact
- All checkpoints require user approval before proceeding
- Generation failures fall back to markdown-only

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**Updated**: 2026-03-05
**Version**: 3.0.0 (modularized)