Slushpile

A job application pipeline. This skill is a router: the pipeline itself lives in ten skill files and eight agent definitions under .slushpile/.

Read the matching file in full and follow it. Do not work from this summary — the details are the product, and every rule in those files carries a failure mode that this page does not have room for.

| The user wants to | Read | |---|---| | Set up a workspace, first time | .slushpile/skills/onboard/SKILL.md | | Search a company's careers board | .slushpile/skills/job-board-search/SKILL.md | | Find a warm path into a company | .slushpile/skills/outreach/SKILL.md | | Surface experience they never wrote down | .slushpile/skills/explore-experience/SKILL.md | | Build a resume and cover letter for a role | .slushpile/skills/application-builder/SKILL.md | | Review materials before submitting | .slushpile/skills/adversarial-review/SKILL.md | | Strip AI tells from prose | .slushpile/skills/removing-ai-tells/SKILL.md | | Redesign the resume and letter templates | .slushpile/skills/redesign-templates/SKILL.md | | Report on the search and check its calibration | .slushpile/skills/status/SKILL.md | | Ask how any of this works | .slushpile/skills/help/SKILL.md |

Before anything else

Check for preferences.yaml in the working directory. If it is absent, the workspace has not been set up, and every other skill here depends on it. Run onboarding first.

The review pipeline without subagents

Cursor has no subagent dispatch. The review runs its seven personas sequentially in one context.

Read each definition from .slushpile/agents/, adopt it, write its report out in full, then move to the next. The order is: triage screener, requirements analyst, ATS simulator, fatigued reader, pool analyst, hiring manager, contrarian.

The first five are supposed to be blind to each other. In a single context they are not, and a specialist that has already read the triage verdict will drift toward agreeing with it. Writing each report out completely before starting the next is what limits the bleed. Do not skip that.

The hiring manager gets all five specialist reports. The contrarian gets everything.

The one rule that matters most

Nothing in the pipeline hardcodes a fact about the user. Every personal fact — compensation floor, relocation, work authorization, clearance, targeting — lives in preferences.yaml, and every factual claim about their career lives in profile.md. Read those. Never assume a fact about the user that is not in one of them, and never write one into an application that you cannot point to.

What this never does

It does not submit anything. No skill here touches an application portal, an email, or a form. It writes files that the user reads and sends themselves.