Alternatives to career-ops
career-ops is an agent skill by career-ops-hq: Open-source AI job search agent -- evaluate offers, generate CVs, scan portals, track applications. If it doesn't fit your setup, these 12 agent skills cover similar ground. They are ordered by how closely they match career-ops and by our rank, which weighs adoption, freshness and documentation; money never changes the order. tool-design-sprint-brief leads the list (active in the last 30 days; open source (Apache-2.0)). Each entry shows data reasons to switch, and you can open a side-by-side comparison with career-ops.
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career-ops
Open-source AI job search agent -- evaluate offers, generate CVs, scan portals, track applications.
12 alternatives
Ordered by how closely each matches career-ops (shared product, category or stated alternative) and by rank.
- 1tool-design-sprint-brief
product-on-purpose
Pre-sprint brief that locks challenge, sprint questions, team and role assignments, customer recruiting plan, prototype medium, interview format, logistics…
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (Apache-2.0)
★ 758Last active Oct 17, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 2greeting-message
kyle-kw
Generate one concise Chinese greeting for a recruiter using a target job and confirmed resume facts.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 107Last active Oct 10, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 3job-fit
kyle-kw
Evaluate a job posting against a confirmed resume and stated job preferences, producing evidence-backed fit dimensions, hard constraints, strengths, gaps…
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 107Last active Oct 10, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 4application-form-filler
Paramchoudhary
Fill out job application form fields with context-aware, tailored answers drawn from the candidate's CV and the job description
- Repository has 2.9K stars
- Open source (MIT)
★ 2.9KLast active May 26, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
CFreshness: C–Security: not graded yet - 5resume-tailor
borghei
Tailor a resume to a job description by extracting keywords, scoring match, and rewriting bullets for impact.
- Supports Python
★ 976Last active Oct 23, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 6sourcing-outreach
mkurman
When the user needs to write recruiting outreach messages to attract passive candidates or request referrals.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 325Last active Oct 23, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 7apify-linkedin-jobs-scraper
sickn33
Search and export LinkedIn job postings with salary, seniority, recruiter and company fields using the harshmaur/linkedin-jobs-scraper Apify Actor.
- Largest repository here (48,428 stars)
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 48.4KLast active Oct 24, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 8long-session-goal
giovannirco
Keep a multi-hour agent session on track across context loss: a goal file with a checkable end, a resume routine, a checkpoint routine, a "waiting for the…
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 1Last active Oct 5, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 9pause-work
ItsEthanDev
Pause work safely and save a resume checkpoint for another agent or after compaction.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 2Last active Oct 13, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 10cv-tailor
zebbern
Optimize resumes by matching keywords to the job description, rewriting experience with the quantified STAR method, and checking ATS compatibility.
- Repository has 4.7K stars
- Open source (MIT)
★ 4.7KLast active May 31, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
CFreshness: C–Security: not graded yet - 11ux-research
rampstackco
Plan and execute user research including research planning, recruiting, interview design, qualitative synthesis, and translating findings into product…
- Open source (MIT)
★ 992Last active Sep 15, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
BFreshness: B–Security: not graded yet - 12job-application
cheshirecode
Generate a tailored job-application package (resume, cover letter, skills keyword block) for one job description.
- Supports Python
Last active Sep 25, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet