Job Hunt HQ

Your job hunt in a folder you own. A kanban tracker with no cloud and no accounts, plus Claude skills that find, fit-score, and tailor — while you stay the one who applies.

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Free & open source · MIT · your data never leaves your computer

Six stages, one board, one data.json on your disk
Screeningnew finds, sorted by fit
To Applyyour keepers
Applieddocs attached
Phone Screen
Interviewing
Offer

The loop

New roles land in Screening with each scheduled or on-demand scrub, fit-scored 0–100 against your personal job thesis → you drag the keepers to To Apply → Claude drafts a tailored resume and cover letter from your master resume and the actual posting (on a schedule, at a button press, or when you ask) → you proofread, apply, and move the card → the next reply check advances it for you. You do the judgment; Claude does the legwork.

What's inside

🧭 Guided setup

A 15-minute interview builds your Job Thesis — an honest, tiered definition of what a "fit" means for you — and your Master Resume. Everything downstream follows it.

🔎 Job scrub

Searches job boards (daily, or on demand), dedupes against your tracker, fit-scores every role, and captures the posting text so nothing depends on links staying alive.

📄 Tailored documents

Resume + cover letter per role, built only from your master copy and the actual posting. Never invented, never generic. Drafts you proofread.

📬 Reply monitor

Checks your email for recruiter replies — on a schedule you choose, or whenever you ask — and moves cards to Phone Screen, Interviewing, or Rejected. No manual bookkeeping.

🗂 Local-first tracker

One HTML page and a tiny Python server. Atomic saves, rolling backups, optional git history. Works standalone, even without Claude.

💬 Customize by asking

No settings screens. "Add Otta to my scrub." "Keep cover letters under 250 words." The system is plain files and skills Claude can edit.

What it doesn't do

It never applies for you. No auto-submitting, no posting your resume to boards, no sending email on your behalf. Recruiters can tell when applications are automated — every application is you, clicking submit.

It doesn't replace your judgment. Fit scores are triage, not verdicts. Drafts are drafts — read them like anything with your signature on it.

Get started

In Claude's Cowork mode: install the plugin, create a new project with a folder, and say "set up my job tracker." That's the whole install.

Claude Code users can install from the marketplace instead:

/plugin marketplace add zaridan/job-hunt-hq
/plugin install job-hunt-hq@job-hunt-hq

No Claude? The tracker board works standalone as a plain local job tracker — you manage cards by hand, without the search, scoring, or document automations. See the README.

Built in the open

Job Hunt HQ is MIT-licensed and improved by the people who use it. The automations are plain-English skill files, so you can contribute without writing code — better prompts, new job boards, sharper guardrails. Found something confusing? That's a contribution too: tell us in an issue, or read the very short contributing guide.