One file your recruiter, your applicant tracking system, your personal site, and every AI agent on the internet can read perfectly.
We are building the open standard that retires the "PDF for humans, Word for ATS, text for LinkedIn, HTML for my website" treadmill. A .cv file ships all four representations of the same content inside one PDF/A-3u, plus pre computed semantic vectors so AI tools never re-embed your resume to search it. Double click it. Any PDF reader on any OS opens it. Bots ask for text/markdown, they get clean Markdown. Vector stores ask for embeddings, they get them, already chunked, already normalized, already indexed.
Your resume is read by humans, by software, and (more and more) by AI agents. Today those audiences each get a different file. Tomorrow they all get the same file. The internet does not need a fifth resume format. It needs one that every audience can read without giving up the ones the others rely on.
We made the format. We made the tools. We open sourced both. Apache 2.0 code, CC BY 4.0 spec, zero vendor lock in.
- cvfile.org: the rendered spec, the live drag and drop viewer, the install page.
- cvfile/cv: the monorepo. JavaScript, Python, Go SDKs, a CLI, a web component, server middleware, the spec, the reference fixtures, the LangChain and LlamaIndex integrations.
- cvfile/homebrew-tap and cvfile/scoop-bucket: install
cvon macOS, Linux, and Windows.
| Ecosystem | Package |
|---|---|
| npm | @cvfile/sdk, @cvfile/embed, @cvfile/server, @cvfile/viewer-web |
| PyPI | cvfile, langchain-cvfile, llama-index-readers-cvfile |
| Go | github.com/cvfile/cv/sdks/go |
| Homebrew | cvfile/tap/cv |
| Scoop | cvfile/cv |
The format is locked at cv 1.0. Read the full normative spec at cvfile.org/spec/. PDF/A-3u for the container. PDF Associated Files (/AF, ISO 32000-2 §14.13) for the payloads. XMP for the metadata. BGE M3 (MIT licensed) for the recommended embedding space, with first class support for shipping any model your downstream pipeline already trusts.
The format is built to outlive any single vendor, any single SDK, and any single viewer.