Is there an official Anthropic resume skill?

No. The anthropics/skills repo ships document skills (docx, pdf, pptx, xlsx) and authoring templates, but nothing for resumes. Every skill this search surfaces is community-built.

Why doesn't the skill show up after I install it?

Known problem: the repo moved SKILL.md into a skills/resume-tailoring/ subdirectory while the README still says to clone the whole repo into ~/.claude/skills. Copy SKILL.md and the four root-level reference .md files into a single ~/.claude/skills/resume-tailoring/ folder and restart Claude Code.

Will it fabricate experience to match a job description?

Its stated core principle is truth-preserving optimization: reframe and emphasize real experience, never invent it, with new material surfaced through an interview rather than generated. That is the design intent — still fact-check every line before you send a resume out.

Does it work in the Claude web app or only Claude Code?

It was written for Claude Code; the company research and DOCX/PDF steps assume that environment. The SKILL.md format is standard, so a zipped copy uploads to claude.ai under Settings > Capabilities > Skills on paid plans, but expect the file-heavy parts of the workflow to degrade.

Skill review · by Varun R (varunr89)

Claude Resume Skill

The Claude resume skill people search for is not one official product — it is a cluster of community-built skills, and the most-referenced single one is resume-tailoring-skill by GitHub user varunr89. It tailors resumes from your existing markdown resume library to a specific job description: it researches the company, runs a branching interview to surface experience you never wrote down, scores each content match for confidence, and outputs Markdown plus DOCX and PDF, with a batch mode for three to five jobs at once. It holds 720 GitHub stars under an MIT license. The one thing to know before installing: the repo layout no longer matches its own README — a straight clone into ~/.claude/skills leaves the skill invisible to Claude Code, a problem reported in March 2026 and still unfixed, with the last commit dated March 1, 2026. Install with the corrected steps below, or consider the larger, more active ResumeSkills collection instead.

View the sourceMIT licensed · 720★ · facts checked September 1, 2026

By Robert MacKelfresh

Founder, Automation Squad · September 1, 2026

Install

1Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/varunr89/resume-tailoring-skill.git — but not straight into ~/.claude/skills as the README says; the layout changed and the skill will not be detected that way.
2Create the skill folder: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/resume-tailoring
3Copy skills/resume-tailoring/SKILL.md plus the root-level reference files (research-prompts.md, matching-strategies.md, branching-questions.md, multi-job-workflow.md) from the clone into that folder.
4Restart Claude Code, put 1-2 existing resumes as markdown files in a resumes/ directory, then paste a job description and ask for a tailored resume.
5Claude.ai on paid plans: zip the folder from step 3 and upload it under Settings > Capabilities > Skills.

What it does

Tailoring from a library: Builds a resume for a specific job description from your existing markdown resumes. It requires a library of at least 1-2 resumes and explicitly refuses to write one from scratch.
Company and role research: Runs structured web research on the company culture, role requirements, and success profiles, using templates in its research-prompts.md reference file.
Experience discovery: Conducts a branching conversational interview to surface undocumented experience, then feeds it back into your resume library so later runs start richer.
Confidence-scored matching: Scores every content match against the job description and flags gaps transparently. Its stated core rule is truth-preserving optimization: reframe and emphasize real experience, never fabricate.
Multi-format and batch output: Generates Markdown, DOCX, PDF, and an interview-prep report (DOCX/PDF need Anthropic's document skills installed separately), plus a batch mode for 3-5 jobs sharing one discovery session.

Common questions

Is there an official Anthropic resume skill?: No. The anthropics/skills repo ships document skills (docx, pdf, pptx, xlsx) and authoring templates, but nothing for resumes. Every skill this search surfaces is community-built.
Why doesn't the skill show up after I install it?: Known problem: the repo moved SKILL.md into a skills/resume-tailoring/ subdirectory while the README still says to clone the whole repo into ~/.claude/skills. Copy SKILL.md and the four root-level reference .md files into a single ~/.claude/skills/resume-tailoring/ folder and restart Claude Code.
Will it fabricate experience to match a job description?: Its stated core principle is truth-preserving optimization: reframe and emphasize real experience, never invent it, with new material surfaced through an interview rather than generated. That is the design intent — still fact-check every line before you send a resume out.
Does it work in the Claude web app or only Claude Code?: It was written for Claude Code; the company research and DOCX/PDF steps assume that environment. The SKILL.md format is standard, so a zipped copy uploads to claude.ai under Settings > Capabilities > Skills on paid plans, but expect the file-heavy parts of the workflow to degrade.

Before you install

Community project, not Anthropic's. The official anthropics/skills repo contains no resume skill; nothing this search surfaces is official.
The README's install instructions are broken against the current repo layout: SKILL.md now lives in a skills/resume-tailoring/ subdirectory while its four reference files sit at the repo root, so a straight clone leaves the skill undetected. Reported in issue #7 (March 2026); fix PRs #9 and #14 remain unmerged.
No commits since March 1, 2026 — six months stale at verification — and issues and PRs have gone unanswered since spring 2026.
It ships a .claude-plugin/plugin.json but no marketplace.json, so /plugin marketplace add does not work for this repo.
Requires an existing markdown resume library and refuses the from-scratch use case; DOCX/PDF output depends on Anthropic's document skills being installed separately, otherwise you get Markdown only.
The author's time figures (batch mode 11-27% faster, roughly 15 minutes per job) are self-reported with no published benchmark.
An April 2026 issue reports invalid YAML in SKILL.md frontmatter; the frontmatter on main currently parses fine, but the report sat unanswered.
It is neither the most-starred nor the most active result for this query: Paramchoudhary/ResumeSkills has 2,050 stars and was pushed in June 2026.

Facts come from the skill's own repository and docs on the date above, via the GitHub API — not from memory, and never from a sponsor.

Worth comparing

ResumeSkills (Paramchoudhary/ResumeSkills) — A 22-skill career collection (ATS optimizer, bullet writer, cover letters, interview prep); 2,050 stars, MIT, pushed June 2026 — bigger and more active, but a toolbox rather than one guided workflow.
resume-builder-skill (dabydat/resume-builder-skill) — Builds ATS-optimized resumes from scratch on r/EngineeringResumes conventions; MIT, 32 stars — covers the from-scratch case the tailoring skill refuses.
resume-cover-letter (jezweb/claude-skills) — One skill inside a 987-star multi-skill repo; handles US/UK/AU-NZ regional format differences and cover letters.

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