conjurer

resume-conjurer

A Claude Code plugin that generates grounded resume and cover letter variants, lets you curate them, and stitches final documents. Generate abundance, exercise taste, stitch from selections.

Inspired by Scott Werner's The Illusionist and the Conjurer: instead of asking for one perfect output, summon many grounded variants and recognize the right one.

What it does

• Grounded variants. Every bullet and paragraph traces back to your master resume or evidence. The model re-frames; it does not invent.
• Encoded taste. A grimoire.md captures your voice and rules so output sounds like you.
• Conversational curation. Claude presents variants; you pick; it stitches the winners.
• Style linting. A checklist catches em dashes, filler, AI-generic openers, and overlong cover letters.
• Reads and writes real formats. Bootstraps from your existing resume in PDF, docx, or markdown, and exports the finished cover letter and resume to PDF/docx (via pandoc if installed; otherwise markdown is the deliverable).

Install

/plugin marketplace add joshuaoliphant/resume-conjurer
/plugin install conjurer@resume-conjurer

Setup

/conjurer:grimoire        # build your grimoire (point it at an old resume to bootstrap)
/conjurer:master-resume   # build your master resume (the evidence pool)

These create and fill a workspace: a directory with grimoire.md, master-resume.md, and applications/.

Use

Ask Claude to tailor your resume for a job ("conjure variants for this role" + paste the JD). The conjurer skill runs the pipeline: outline -> variants (in parallel) -> curate with you -> stitch -> lint -> export. Output lands in applications/<slug>/.

Example walkthrough

Start in a folder that holds your current resume and launch Claude Code there:

~/job-search $ ls
resume.pdf
~/job-search $ claude

Then describe the job:

You: Help me apply to the Staff Platform Engineer role at Globex. [paste the JD]

On the first run there is no workspace yet, so the skill bootstraps one from what you already have:

Conjurer: I don't see a conjurer workspace here, but I found resume.pdf. I'll read it to build your master-resume.md (the evidence pool) and interview you briefly to capture your voice in grimoire.md. Ready?

After setup, the pipeline runs:

1. Outline. It reads the JD against your master resume and picks one strategic frame (scale, friction, conviction, or multiplier), then lists the cover letter paragraphs and the resume bullets worth tailoring.

2. Variants. It generates four grounded variants per unit in parallel, each citing the evidence it draws from, and writes them to applications/globex-staff-platform/variants.md.

3. Curate. It walks you through the units conversationally:

   Conjurer: For your opening bullet, which lands better?

   1. Architected the billing-platform migration to event-driven services, cutting invoice latency from 40s to under 2s across three regions.
   2. Led the platform migration that moved billing onto an event-driven backbone, taking invoice generation from 40 seconds to two and clearing the path for regional rollout.

   You: 1

4. Stitch. It assembles your picks into cover_letter.md and resume.md.

5. Lint. It runs the grimoire checklist (no em dashes in prose, no filler, no AI-generic openers, cover letter under 350 words) and fixes anything it flags.

6. Export. It offers PDF and docx for submission (via pandoc if installed).

~/job-search $ ls applications/globex-staff-platform
cover_letter.md   cover_letter.pdf   resume.md   resume.pdf
jd.txt            evidence.md        outline.json  variants.md

Every claim in those documents traces back to a line in your master resume or evidence. The model re-frames; it does not invent.

How it works

Deterministic work (scaffolding, stitching, linting) is pure-stdlib Python in plugins/conjurer/skills/conjurer/scripts/. Generation is a skill procedure plus a parallel variant-generator subagent. No API keys: inside Claude Code, Claude is the model.

License

MIT