Claude Job Auto-Apply

Fully autonomous job application agent powered by Claude Code subagent orchestration + Playwright.

Searches jobs, tailors every resume to the JD, writes cover letters, fills any ATS form, auto-registers accounts, solves CAPTCHAs, handles email verification — and submits. All configurable. No limits.

Tested: 30 applications across 7 ATS platforms in one session. Zero human intervention.

Install

# 1. Install Claude Code
curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash  # or: npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code

# 2. Install the skill
npx skills add liruihan000/claude-job-auto-apply
# or manually: git clone https://github.com/liruihan000/claude-job-auto-apply.git .claude/skills/job-auto-apply

# 3. Run
claude --dangerously-skip-permissions

# Headless (no monitor / remote server / display switched away)
xvfb-run claude --dangerously-skip-permissions -p '/job-auto-apply'

Then type /job-auto-apply. First run guides you through setup. After that, it auto-starts on every session.

What Happens on First Run

The agent walks you through setup interactively:

1. config.json — asks your target roles, locations, daily goal, parallel browser count
2. .mcp.json — generates Playwright browser config (you choose how many instances)
3. user-profile.md — copies a template for your personal info, contact, work auth, EEO
4. secrets.md — copies a template for ATS login credentials
5. uploaded-resumes/ — asks you to add at least one .docx resume
6. MCP connectors — checks for Gmail/Indeed, guides you to connect if missing
7. CLAUDE.md — auto-generates so the agent starts automatically next session
8. Daily cron (optional) — sets up fully unattended daily runs

All user files are created in your project root, not inside the skill directory.

Key Files

File	Where	What
config.json	Project root	Your settings (daily target, search keywords, parallelism)
user-profile.md	Project root	Personal info, contact, work auth, EEO defaults
secrets.md	Project root	ATS login credentials
uploaded-resumes/	Project root	Your resume .docx files
applications/	Project root	Generated per application (resume, CL, notes, status)
applications/TRACKER.md	Project root	Single source of truth for all applications
CLAUDE.md	Project root	Auto-generated — makes skill run on every session start

Architecture

               Claude Code (Main Agent)
              Orchestration · Queue · Decisions
                    │         │         │
            ┌───────┘         │         └───────┐
     Search Layer        AI Core         Submit Layer
      (pluggable)        (fixed)          (parallel)
            │                │                │
     Indeed MCP         8-Step Resume    Playwright-1
     LinkedIn           Tailoring        Playwright-2
     ...any board       + Cover Letter   Playwright-3
                              │          ...extensible
                       ATS Handlers
                      (self-healing)

Three decoupled layers. Search is pluggable — add any job board via MCP. Submit is parallel — add more Playwright instances for more throughput. ATS handlers self-heal — every friction encountered becomes a permanent fix.

Subagent Orchestration

The main agent spawns 30+ specialized subagents per session — material prep in parallel, form submission in parallel, queue management, failure handling, all autonomous.

Self-Healing

FRICTION: Siemens select2 dropdown not responding
→ jQuery workaround written to ats-handlers/siemens.md
→ Never fails on same problem twice

ATS Support

Indeed, Workday, Oracle HCM, Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Taleo, SAP SuccessFactors, Siemens, Uber, Jobvite + generic fallback. Grows automatically with every new platform encountered.

Why This Skill is Different

No other open-source job application tool has all of these:

• Subagent parallelism — Claude Code spawns N independent agents, each with its own browser. Not multitab — true parallel execution. No other agent framework can do this.
• 10+ ATS platforms with battle-tested handlers — Workday, Oracle HCM, Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Taleo, SAP, and more. Each handler written from real-world friction, not theory.
• Config-driven three-layer architecture — Search, Prepare, Submit are fully decoupled. Change any layer via config.json without touching the skill logic.
• Self-healing — Every ATS failure becomes a permanent handler. The system literally gets smarter with every application.
• Full automation — Daily cron + Xvfb + persistent browser profiles. Runs on a headless server while you sleep.
• ATS-optimized resume tailoring — 10-step checklist with keyword matching, action verb alignment, ATS compatibility scoring. Not just keyword stuffing — structural optimization.

License

MIT