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Spicebag — AI skill for Claude Code

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Spice Bag is an open-source CLI tool that uses Claude AI to intelligently tailor your CV and cover letter for every job application you submit.

How to install Spicebag

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open oxGrad/spicebag and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Spicebag does

Spice Bag is an open-source CLI tool that uses Claude AI to intelligently tailor your CV and cover letter for every job application you submit. Your CV is like a great recipe. You have all the right ingredients (experience, skills, achievements), but without the right seasoning, it might not stand out to employers.

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README

🌶️ Spice Bag

**Season Every Application Perfectly**

Your CV is like a great recipe. You have all the right ingredients — experience, skills, achievements — but without the right seasoning, it might not stand out.

Spice Bag is an AI-powered tool that helps you tailor your CV and cover letter for every job application. Like a chef selecting the perfect spices for a dish, it analyzes each job posting and helps you emphasize the right experiences, skills, and achievements to make your application stand out.

No more generic CVs. Just perfectly seasoned applications for every role you apply to.

What it does

Your Spice Bag — stores base CV variants and cover letters as Markdown in ~/.config/spicebag/
Flavor extraction — pulls experience stats (years per role type) from CV frontmatter into SQLite
Application tracking — tracks every job application with full status history
PDF export — exports to print-quality PDF via Gotenberg (no browser print dialogs)
Four slash commands — /customize-cv, /write-cover-letter, /apply, /scrape-jobs directly in Claude Code
Job scraping — fetch live listings from company ATS pages and surface matches against your target roles
Dashboard — browse and manage everything at http://localhost:8080

Prerequisites

Go 1.22+
Docker (for Gotenberg PDF export)
Claude Code

Installation

Option A — Homebrew

brew install oxGrad/tap/spicebag

Option B — go install

go install github.com/oxGrad/spicebag/cmd/spicebag@latest

Open the dashboard

spicebag start        # foreground
spicebag start -d     # background (logs to ~/.config/spicebag/spicebag.log)
spicebag stop         # stop background server

On first run, `spicebag start` automatically sets up `~/.config/spicebag/`, registers the MCP server with Claude Code, installs default themes, and adds slash commands. Open `http://localhost:8080` in your browser. The dashboard includes