Make Cover Letter

by ARPeeketi

Make Cover Letter is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by ARPeeketi in claude-resume-kit.

235 stars52 forkson ARPeeketi/claude-resume-kitAdded 2026/09/03Repository updated 2026/03/10

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Install Make Cover Letter

Copy Make Cover Letter into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/ARPeeketi/claude-resume-kit/tree/main/.claude/skills/make-cl ~/.claude/skills/make-cl

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/ARPeeketi/claude-resume-kit.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: .claude/skills/make-cl/SKILL.md in ARPeeketi/claude-resume-kit
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/make-cl
Collection: One of 6 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1109 skills

What Make Cover Letter does

Make Cover Letter generates a tailored cover letter from an existing session file and finished resume or CV. Use it to draft a role-specific letter that stays traceable to the source materials.

Make Cover Letter is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Make Cover Letter comes from a repository tagged academic, claude-code, cover-letter, cv and job-search.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

/make-cl

User input: $ARGUMENTS

Parse $ARGUMENTS:

Session file path (e.g., output/Acme/session_acme_engineer.md) → read that session file
Session name (e.g., acme_engineer) → find session file via shared_ops.md derivation
Empty → check CLAUDE.md Active Sessions for latest

Safety Rules (ALWAYS ENFORCED)

Accuracy > Relevance > Impact > ATS > Brevity

Read config.md Provenance Flags before generating any content. Verify every claim against that table.

Use the email from config.md Personal Info in all outputs
CL deepens what resume presents — never introduces new claims not traceable to resume bullets
Source field context from resume_builder/support/significance_*.md files

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Make Cover Letter provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/make-cl
/critique
/make-resume
/clear

Frequently asked about Make Cover Letter

What else does ARPeeketi publish alongside Make Cover Letter?
Make Cover Letter is one of 6 skills that DirSkills catalogs from ARPeeketi/claude-resume-kit, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Critique, Edit Resume and Make Resume. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Make Cover Letter does, and is maintained by ARPeeketi in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the ARPeeketi/claude-resume-kit page.
How does Make Cover Letter compare to other Writing skills?
Make Cover Letter ranks #911 by stars among the 1109 Writing skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Article Writing, Social Media Content Calendar and Knowledge Comic Creator. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Make Cover Letter against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.