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extrasmall0/dear-hiring-manager

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TLDR

A Claude Code plugin that automatically fills job application forms and drafts cover letters from your saved profile, leaving the final Submit click to you.

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    What it does
      Fills job applications
      Drafts cover letters
      Scores job fit
    Setup
      Onboard interview once
      Profile saved locally
    Use cases
      Apply to one job
      Batch apply from list
      Write cover letters
    Boundaries
      Never clicks Submit
      Never solves CAPTCHA
      Data stays local

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What do people build with it?

USE CASE 1

Fill out a single job application automatically after scoring how well you fit the role.

USE CASE 2

Batch apply to a whole list of job postings collected in a text file, working through them unattended.

USE CASE 3

Draft a tailored cover letter for a specific job posting.

What is it built with?

Claude CodePlaywrightMarkdown

How does it compare?

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Stars393939
LanguagePython
Setup difficultyeasymoderate
Complexity3/5
Audiencegeneraldevelopergeneral

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How do you get it running?

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 30min

Requires Claude Code and its bundled Playwright browser, an optional Apify token can auto-collect job URLs.

In plain English

Dear Hiring Manager is a plugin for Claude Code, Anthropic's coding assistant, that fills out job applications on your behalf. Instead of writing the same answers over and over on different company career sites, you set up a profile once, and the tool reuses it to fill out forms automatically. Setup starts with an onboarding step that interviews you about your background: your contact details, links to LinkedIn, GitHub, and a portfolio, your address, work authorization status, answers to standard equal opportunity questions, target job titles and level, years of experience, salary expectations, and a minimum score for how good a job match needs to be before it is worth applying. All of this gets saved locally in a plain text file you can open and edit yourself at any time. From there, you can point it at a single job posting and it will judge how well you fit the role, then fill in the application form, flagging anything it was unsure about in red for you to review. It also supports working through a whole list of job links at once, opening each in its own browser tab, filling what it safely can, and marking anything blocked, like a login wall or a CAPTCHA, without stopping the rest of the batch. It can also draft a tailored cover letter for a specific posting. Importantly, the tool never clicks the final Submit button itself, never tries to get past a CAPTCHA, and never answers a legal or equal opportunity question you have not confirmed yourself. All of your data, including your resume and application history, stays in local files on your machine rather than being sent to a cloud service, and an optional integration can pull in job links automatically from a scraping service if you provide your own account for it. This is aimed at people actively job hunting who are tired of repetitive form filling, and it keeps a human in control of the one step that matters most, actually pressing send.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Help me set up my profile for the dear-hiring-manager plugin so it can fill applications for me.
Prompt 2
Use dear-hiring-manager to apply to this job posting and flag anything you were unsure about.
Prompt 3
Run dear-hiring-manager in batch mode across my saved list of job URLs.

Frequently asked questions

What is dear-hiring-manager?

A Claude Code plugin that automatically fills job application forms and drafts cover letters from your saved profile, leaving the final Submit click to you.

How hard is dear-hiring-manager to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 30min to a first successful run.

Who is dear-hiring-manager for?

Mainly general.

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