Add jobstead skill

[adibas03]

Persistent, session-spanning job-search companion: fit-checks a posting against a stored applicant profile, flags scam patterns, and tailors a resume/cover letter grounded in the person's real background rather than generic one-shot advice. Profile, application tracker, and accumulated lessons persist across sessions in references/.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Q5CnBdJyAAY3g11qj7i8ha

Pull Request Checklist

• I have read and followed the CONTRIBUTING.md guidelines.
• I have read and followed the Guidance for submissions involving paid services (not applicable — no paid services involved).
• My contribution adds a new skill in the correct directory (skills/jobstead/).
• The file follows the required naming convention (folder name matches name in frontmatter, lowercase-hyphenated).
• The content is clearly structured and follows the example format.
• I have tested the skill's triggering behavior extensively (see Additional Notes).
• I have run npm start and verified that the generated docs (docs/README.skills.md) are up to date.
• I am targeting the main branch for this pull request.

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Description

Adds jobstead, a persistent, session-spanning job-search companion skill. Unlike a one-shot task helper, it grounds every fit-check and story in accumulated state that persists across sessions:

• references/profile.md — the applicant's background, work authorization, target roles, and constraints (ships blank; the skill asks for a resume on first use and fills it in)
• references/tracker.md — an append-only application tracker (applied/rejected/offered/deferred, etc.)
• references/lessons.md — accumulated, identity-free patterns learned across the search (seeded with a starter playbook covering visa/sponsorship signals, salary-floor plausibility checks, ATS-tool cost/benefit, and cover-letter framing)
• references/log.md — a per-session activity audit

Core capabilities: fit-checking a posting against the stored profile (not generic advice), catching scam patterns in postings/recruiter messages, and building a story-grounded, ATS-optimized resume/cover letter tied to a specific role.

Relationship to technical-job-search

This repo already has a technical-job-search skill, which is explicitly one-shot/stateless per task (JD analysis, CV tailoring, cover letter, offer evaluation, follow-up email — no persistence across sessions). jobstead is a different, complementary tool: everything it does is grounded in a profile/tracker/lessons state that accumulates over the whole job search rather than being re-derived each time, and it explicitly covers scam-detection as a first-class use case.

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Type of Contribution

• New skill file.

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Additional Notes

The trigger description was validated with an extensive eval methodology (sequential nested-session testing across a 60-query set of should-trigger/should-not-trigger phrasings, with full transcript capture rather than pass/fail booleans): 86% recall, ~100% precision on fair, well-formed queries. Happy to share the eval harness/results if useful for review.

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🔍 Vally Lint Results

✅ All checks passed

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ℹ️	npm warn EBADENGINE Unsupported engine {
ℹ️	npm warn EBADENGINE package: 'commander@15.0.0',
ℹ️	npm warn EBADENGINE required: { node: '>=22.12.0' },
ℹ️	npm warn EBADENGINE current: { node: 'v20.20.2', npm: '10.8.2' }
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ℹ️	npm warn deprecated prebuild-install@7.1.3: No longer maintained. Please contact the author of the relevant native addon; alternatives are available.
ℹ️	✅ jobstead (2/2 checks passed)
ℹ️	✓ [spec-compliance] All 1 skill(s) are spec-compliant.
ℹ️	✓ spec-compliance: All spec checks passed.
ℹ️	✓ [valid-refs] All file references across 1 skill(s) are valid.

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### Linting skills/jobstead
npm warn EBADENGINE Unsupported engine {
npm warn EBADENGINE   package: 'commander@15.0.0',
npm warn EBADENGINE   required: { node: '>=22.12.0' },
npm warn EBADENGINE   current: { node: 'v20.20.2', npm: '10.8.2' }
npm warn EBADENGINE }
npm warn deprecated prebuild-install@7.1.3: No longer maintained. Please contact the author of the relevant native addon; alternatives are available.
✅ jobstead (2/2 checks passed)
    ✓ [spec-compliance] All 1 skill(s) are spec-compliant.
        ✓ spec-compliance: All spec checks passed.
    ✓ [valid-refs] All file references across 1 skill(s) are valid.
        ✓ valid-refs: All file references resolve to existing files within the skill directory.

1 skill(s) linted, 1 passed

[aaronpowell]

This doesn't really fit with awesome copilot at the moment.