obsidian-resume

obsidian-resume

A Claude Code plugin that turns your Obsidian vault notes into a polished Harvard OCS-style LaTeX resume, then finds live job listings that match your profile.

Two slash commands:

• /generate-resume — parses your exported Obsidian notes and outputs a complete .tex file ready to compile with pdflatex.
• /find-jobs — extracts a search profile from your resume and runs live web searches for matching roles (with optional tailored cover letters).

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Install

The /plugin command only works in the standalone Claude Code CLI. If you're inside the VS Code extension, open a terminal and run claude first, or use the manual install below.

In the standalone CLI, register the marketplace and install the plugin:

/plugin marketplace add dawnn07/obsidian-resume
/plugin install obsidian-resume@obsidian-resume

After install, both /generate-resume and /find-jobs appear in your slash-command menu.

To install your own fork, replace dawnn07/obsidian-resume with <your-handle>/<your-repo>.

Manual install (no /plugin command)

If /plugin isn't available in your environment, you can wire the commands up directly:

# 1. Clone the repo somewhere stable
git clone https://github.com/dawnn07/obsidian-resume.git ~/.local/share/obsidian-resume

# 2. Symlink the slash commands into your user commands folder
mkdir -p ~/.claude/commands
ln -sf ~/.local/share/obsidian-resume/commands/generate-resume.md ~/.claude/commands/generate-resume.md
ln -sf ~/.local/share/obsidian-resume/commands/find-jobs.md       ~/.claude/commands/find-jobs.md

# 3. Replace ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} with the absolute repo path
sed -i 's|\${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}|'"$HOME/.local/share/obsidian-resume"'|g' \
  ~/.claude/commands/generate-resume.md \
  ~/.claude/commands/find-jobs.md

Restart Claude Code and /generate-resume and /find-jobs will appear.

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Quick start

1. Generate the resume

Just point /generate-resume at your vault folder:

/generate-resume ~/path/to/your/ObsidianVault

Claude will:

1. Run the bundled export_vault.py to scan the vault and pull out career-tagged notes (you'll be asked to approve the Bash call once)
2. Parse the resulting JSON into a structured profile
3. Generate a complete Harvard OCS LaTeX file
4. Save it to ./resume.tex (or a path you choose)
5. Print compile instructions

Compile:

pdflatex resume.tex
pdflatex resume.tex   # run twice for spacing

/generate-resume also accepts:

• A pre-exported obsidian_export.json file (skips the export step)
• A single .md file with raw notes
• No argument — it'll ask you for a path or pasted content

2. Find matching jobs

/find-jobs ./resume.tex

Claude extracts your top skills, roles, location and seniority, runs three live web searches, and presents a table of real listings with a one-line "why this matches" for each. Pick a row and Claude will write a tailored cover letter.

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Optional: run the export script manually

/generate-resume runs the bundled export_vault.py for you. You only need to run it by hand if you want to inspect the JSON, cache an export across sessions, or use it from a non-Claude tool:

python ~/.claude/plugins/obsidian-resume/skills/obsidian-resume/scripts/export_vault.py \
  --vault ~/path/to/your/ObsidianVault

This produces obsidian_export.json in the script's folder. The script collects notes that:

• Have a tag in {career, resume, job, work, experience, skills, education, projects, cv}
• OR live inside a folder named Career, Job, Resume, CV, Work, Experience, or Portfolio

Pass --all to export every note, or --tag mytag to filter by a specific tag. Then run:

/generate-resume /absolute/path/to/obsidian_export.json

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How notes get parsed

Any of these patterns in your Obsidian vault are recognized:

Frontmatter:

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tags: [career, experience]
company: Startup XYZ
title: Senior Full Stack Engineer
dates: Jan 2022 – Dec 2024
location: Ho Chi Minh City
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- Rebuilt monolithic platform into microservices, reducing latency 60%
- Led 5-person engineering team

Heading-based sections:

# Experience

## Senior Engineer at Startup XYZ (2022–2024)

- Built APIs used by 50k users
- Led CI/CD migration

Dataview fields:

company:: Startup XYZ
role:: Senior Full Stack Engineer
start:: 2022-01
end:: 2024-12

Free-form prose also works — the plugin extracts what it can from any markdown.

See skills/obsidian-resume/references/export_schema.md for the full schema.

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Resume style

The plugin follows the Harvard OCS resume guidelines strictly: