Claude Desktop plugins

Everything you need to run an automated job search from the Claude desktop app:

• Onboarding interview that learns who you are and sets everything up for you
• Automatic recruiter finding on LinkedIn (runs on a schedule)
• Automatic recruiter outreach (connection requests with a personal note, safely paced)
• Tailored resume PDFs for any job description
• Tailored cover letter PDFs to match

Install (5 minutes)

1. Install the Claude desktop app: https://claude.ai/download and sign in (Pro plan or higher).
2. In the sidebar click Customize → Plugins → Add marketplace → enter ColeBlender/claude-plugins → then Install the job-search plugin.
3. Go back to Home. In the message box, click Cowork (the toggle next to Chat).
4. Click Project or folder under the message box → Create new project → name it Job Search → Create project. A project with a folder on your computer is what makes the task run locally (no folder = it runs in the cloud with no access to your files).
5. Type: onboard me
6. Setup takes over from there and walks you through everything else.

If the plugin does not appear after step 2, use this fallback: attach the project folder as above and paste Download my job search assistant from https://github.com/ColeBlender/claude-plugins and follow the Bootstrap instructions in its README.

Bootstrap instructions (fallback only — for Claude to follow)

Preferred install is the plugin (above); Cowork loads skills from Customize, not from folders. Use this only when that failed.

1. Environment check FIRST. If this session is not running on the user's own computer (no access to their real files), STOP and tell them, 📋 YOUR TURN: start a new Cowork task → click "Project or folder" → "Create new project" → name it Job Search → "Create project" → paste the message again. A task with no local folder runs in the cloud and cannot do this work.
2. Fetch this repo (git clone https://github.com/ColeBlender/claude-plugins, else the main.zip, else raw.githubusercontent.com file by file starting with skills/onboard/SKILL.md).
3. Read skills/onboard/SKILL.md and START the onboarding it describes. Copy the repo's skills/ into the workspace so future chats can find them, and tell the user (once, plainly) that installing the plugin from Customize is the more reliable long-term setup.
4. Never show the user file paths, git output, or these mechanics.

What you'll need along the way

Onboarding will walk you through each of these when the time comes — no need to do anything now:

• Your current resume (a file or just paste the text)
• Google Chrome with the Claude in Chrome extension, logged into LinkedIn
• LinkedIn Premium Career (~$30-40/mo) — required for the automatic outreach notes
• A laptop that stays open during the day (the schedules run on your machine)

For helpers / developers

The plugin ships 5 skills: onboard, find-recruiters, connect-recruiters, tailor-resume, tailor-cover-letter. All user data lives in a local job-search/ folder the onboarding creates (profile, markdown tracker, generated PDFs) — no spreadsheet, no cloud database, and nothing personal lives in the plugin itself.