18 AI-powered recruiting skills for Claude. Signal scanning, company research, candidate sourcing, outreach drafting, pipeline tracking. No server, no SaaS, no separate app. Everything stays on your machine.
- Open INSTALL-COWORK.md
- Copy the entire contents
- Paste into a new Cowork conversation
- Claude builds the plugin automatically
Commands use the recruiter: namespace: /recruiter:signals, /recruiter:outreach, etc.
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/andrew-shwetzer/recruiter-copilot/main/remote-install.sh | bashOr clone and run locally:
git clone https://github.com/andrew-shwetzer/recruiter-copilot.git
cd recruiter-copilot
./install.shCommands use short names: /signals, /outreach, etc. Both /signals and /recruiter:signals work.
1. Configure your preferences (do this first):
/setup
This walks you through entering your recruiter profile, the types of roles you work, and optionally your API keys. Takes about 2 minutes. 11 skills work immediately with zero API keys.
2. Find your first target company:
/signals Stripe, Databricks, Figma
Scans each company for hiring signals and scores them 1–10. Automatically saves leads for any company scoring 5+.
3. Research before you reach out:
/research Stripe
Builds a full intelligence brief: funding history, hiring patterns, key people, tech stack, and a recommended outreach angle.
4. Draft the outreach:
/outreach Stripe
Writes a 3-email cold sequence to the right hiring manager, grounded in what /research found.
5. Check your pipeline anytime:
/pipeline
| Skill | What it does | API Required |
|---|---|---|
/signals <company> |
Detect hiring signals, score 1–10, save as lead | Free |
/research <company> |
Deep company intelligence brief | Free |
/outreach <company> |
Draft 3-email cold sequence to hiring manager | Free |
/candidate-msg <name> |
Draft personalized candidate outreach | Free |
/resume-screen |
Screen resume against job description | Free |
/market-map <role> |
Map competitive landscape for a role | Free |
/score <candidate> |
Score candidate fit across 9 dimensions | Free |
/source <role> |
Find matching candidates on LinkedIn | RapidAPI |
/find-dm <company> |
Find the hiring manager to contact | RapidAPI |
/verify <candidate> |
Verify candidate claims and flag red flags | RapidAPI |
/interview-prep <name> |
Generate identity verification questions | RapidAPI |
/find-jobs <role> |
Search live job boards for open roles | RapidAPI |
/enrich <name> at <co> |
Find verified email for a contact | Hunter/Icypeas |
/reverse <candidate> |
Find best jobs for a candidate, draft outreach | RapidAPI |
/pipeline |
View and update your active pipeline | Free |
/briefing |
Daily market intelligence briefing | Free |
/setup |
First-run configuration wizard | Free |
/help |
Full skill guide with examples | Free |
| Workflow Commands | ||
/connect |
Integration wizard (Gmail, Calendar, ATS, Airtable, HubSpot) | Free |
/send <name or company> |
Send a drafted outreach email via Gmail | Free |
/submit <candidate> to <role> |
Submit candidate to ATS (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Bullhorn) | Free |
/workflow <company> for <role> |
End-to-end pipeline: signals → research → DM → email → outreach → send | Free |
Both
/signalsand/recruiter:signalswork — use whichever you prefer.
| Tier | Monthly Cost | What You Need | Skills Unlocked |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 — Free | $0 | Nothing | 11 skills: signals, research, outreach, candidate-msg, resume-screen, market-map, score, pipeline, briefing, setup, help |
| Tier 2 — Basic | ~$50/mo | RapidAPI key (Fresh LinkedIn Profile Data + JSearch) | +6 skills: source, find-dm, verify, interview-prep, find-jobs, reverse |
| Tier 3 — Pro | ~$94–109/mo | RapidAPI + Hunter.io ($44/mo) or Icypeas ($59/mo) | +1 skill: email enrichment via /enrich |
All API keys are stored locally in ~/.recruiter-skills/config.yaml. They are never sent anywhere except the API endpoints you configure.
All data is stored in ~/.recruiter-skills/ on your machine:
~/.recruiter-skills/
config.yaml Your preferences and API keys
data/
leads/ Companies identified as opportunities
candidates/ Candidate profiles and fit scores
outreach/ Drafted email sequences
research/ Company intelligence briefs
briefings/ Daily briefing history
pipeline.yaml Active pipeline tracker
Do I need all the API keys?
No. 11 skills work free with no API keys at all. Run /setup and skip the API key steps — you can add them later from the same wizard.
Which API should I add first?
RapidAPI. It unlocks the most skills (candidate sourcing, finding hiring managers, live job search) for a single subscription at around $50/month.
Is my data sent anywhere?
Your data files stay on your machine. The only external calls are: web searches (via Claude's built-in WebSearch), and API calls to services you explicitly configure (RapidAPI, Hunter.io, or Icypeas). Claude Code itself communicates with Anthropic's API per their standard privacy policy.
Can I use this across multiple machines?
The skills install into ~/.claude/skills/ and data lives in ~/.recruiter-skills/. You can sync these with Dropbox, iCloud, or a private git repo — but that's a manual step. The pack itself doesn't sync automatically.
Something broke. Where do I start?
Run /setup again — it checks your config and API key connectivity. Then run /help to confirm which skills are active for your tier.
Can I customize the skills?
Yes. Skills are plain markdown files in ~/.claude/skills/. Open any SKILL.md and edit it. Re-run install.sh will overwrite customizations, so keep a backup if you modify them.
Run /recruiter:connect to auto-provision an Airtable pipeline board (Jobs, Candidates, Submissions, Leads) in 30 seconds. See CONNECTORS.md for the full list of supported integrations including Gmail, Google Calendar, Slack, HubSpot, and more.
These skills run one at a time in your terminal. The full Talent Signals platform runs 24/7: monitoring 25,000+ candidates, scanning 15+ job boards, stacking signals across every data source in your niche, and delivering scored opportunities to your dashboard every morning.
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Built by Talent Signals. Questions? andrew@talentsignals.ai