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Recommenders — Development skill for Claude Code

Development community

Pick recommenders, ask them well, and give them what they need to write a strong letter.

How to install Recommenders

Installs to ~/.claude/commands/calebnewtonusc-apply-kit-recommenders.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/commands && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/calebnewtonusc/apply-kit/HEAD/.claude/commands/recommenders.md -o ~/.claude/commands/calebnewtonusc-apply-kit-recommenders.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Recommenders does

description: Pick recommenders, ask them well, and give them what they need to write a strong letter

Load `application-types`. Recommenders are central for `fellowship` and `grad-school`, late but real for `job`, a different artifact for `grant` (letters of support commit an organization, not a person), and rare for `student-org`.

Write `you/RECOMMENDERS.md` and add every date to `DEADLINES.md`.

The thing that goes wrong

Not letter quality. **Lead time.** A letter due through a po

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