Career Manager Orchestrator

This is intentionally a router skill (thin coordinator), not a heavy execution skill. Execution lives in sub-skills below.

Before Any Workflow: Status Briefing

Before starting any workflow, run the briefing script to understand current state:

uv run python3 scripts/generate_briefing.py

Read the JSON output and present a natural-language summary to the user:

• First run (first_run=true): "This is your first run. I'll search across your career paths and probably find 15-25 companies. Should take about 20 minutes."
• Ongoing (first_run=false): "You have [total_companies] companies tracked, [stale_companies] are stale. [active_applications] active applications, [followup_needed] need follow-up. [Context-appropriate time estimate]."

Use the briefing to inform which workflow to suggest.

Route by Intent

• "What should I do today?" / "what's my status?" / "briefing" - Run briefing, then suggest highest-priority action: follow-ups first, then monitor if stale companies exist, then prospecting if >7 days since last.
• Target list scoring / hygiene / dedupe / stale checks / broken links - job-search
• "Run job search" / "find companies" / "run the pipeline" - job-search
• Single company deep research dossier - company-research
• "Pursue [company]" / "research and apply to [company]" - company-research then cv-tailor then job-tracker
• Application pipeline CRUD + follow-up reporting - job-tracker
• First-time setup / profile update / regenerate config - onboarding
• "Tailor my CV" / "apply to [role]" - cv-tailor
• "Prep me for the [company] interview" / "interview prep for [company]" - interview-prep

Cross-Skill Flow

After any skill completes, suggest the logical next action (one suggestion, not a chain):

Skill completes	Suggest
Onboarding	Auto-start job-search pipeline (no prompt needed)
Job search phase 3	"Top 3 are [names]. Want me to research them?"
Company research says PURSUE	"Want me to tailor your CV for [role] at [company]?"
CV tailor produces artifacts	"Want me to add this to your tracker?"
Job tracker shows stale follow-ups	"Want me to draft follow-up text for these?"
Job tracker status becomes interviewing	"Want an interview prep doc for [company]?"

These are suggestions. The user can always decline.

Model Policy

Route by work type, not by habit:

Work	Model	Why
Prospecting, eval, monitor agents (job-search)	sonnet	Bulk search + rubric scoring; volume dominates cost (~500K tokens/wave)
Company research dossiers	sonnet	Structured extraction from web sources
CV tailoring, onboarding, interview-prep drafting	session default	Human-facing writing; quality over cost
Independent review passes (e.g. interview-prep review)	sonnet	Structured checking against explicit criteria

Every Agent tool dispatch in the SKILL.md files states its model explicitly. If a dispatch instruction has no model, that is a bug — fix the instruction, don't guess.

Source of Truth

• job-search/data/target-companies.csv
• job-tracker/data/applications.csv

Boundaries

• Keep non-career work out of this skill.
• Use company-research for one-company analysis, not bulk pipeline operations.
• Use job-tracker for application status operations, not market/company research.

Error Handling

• If a sub-skill path or file is missing, stop and report the missing dependency.
• If requested action spans multiple skills, execute sequentially (don't ask for permission between each step unless a decision is needed).
• If data sources conflict, prefer canonical owners (job-search for target companies, job-tracker for applications) and log the discrepancy.

Reference

• references/apply-workflow.md - end-to-end research, tailor, apply, track, follow-up flow