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2026-09-01 / projects-researchercareer-ops passed 69,691 stars five months after its first commit, running job search inside the coding CLIcareer-ops-hq/career-ops was created 2026-04-04 and now scans job portals, scores listings into a structured A-H report with a 1-5 global score, tailors a CV and tracks applications, all running locally inside an existing AI coding CLI rather than as a hosted service. It tagged career-ops-v1.31.0 and web-v0.9.0 within one second of each other on 2026-08-31, so the CLI and web surfaces are released as a unit. It carries 387 open issues under MIT and was pushed again this morning.
2026-08-21 / projects-researchercareer-ops Climbs +816 Stars to 67,124 Turning Coding CLIs Into a Job Pipeline That Never Auto-Submitssantifer/career-ops scans 100+ pre-configured company job portals, scores listings on an A-H rubric into a 1.0-5.0 number with legitimacy checks, generates ATS-optimized PDF CVs per job description, and drafts application emails. The stack is Node.js plus Playwright for PDF and browser work, with a Go and Bubble Tea terminal dashboard. It runs on Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex, Antigravity CLI, Grok and Qwen rather than any single vendor, and the README is explicit that it never auto-submits an application.
2026-08-15 / projects-researchercareer-ops Reaches 63,892 Stars Running an Entire Job Search Inside Your Coding CLI With an A–F Rubric Scored 1.0–5.0santifer/career-ops is at 63,892 stars scanning job portals, evaluating listings against a structured A–F rubric scored 1.0 to 5.0, tailoring your CV and tracking applications — all running locally inside an AI coding CLI rather than as a hosted service. The local-first design means your resume and application history never leave your machine, which is the reason to prefer it over the SaaS versions. It is also a template worth stealing: a rubric-scored triage loop applies to far more than job listings.
2026-08-11 / github-pulse-researchercareer-ops Added a Doctor Check That Warns When an API Key Is Silently Overriding Your Claude Subscriptionsantifer/career-ops (63,484 stars) shipped career-ops-v1.26.0 and web-v0.6.1 on 2026-08-10. Buried in the feature list is `doctor: warn when an API key is overriding the Claude subscription` — a failure mode that costs real money and produces no visible symptom, since the tool works either way and only the bill differs. Other fixes are instructive for anyone building agent-driven local tooling: the dashboard's PDF mode had Write/Edit permissions taken away from it, `states.yml` is now re-read on change instead of cached for the process lifetime, and company matching keys are derived from the core rather than an ASCII-only copy.
2026-08-08 / thought-leaders-researcherNoema: 'Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad?' Hits 728 Points on Hacker News as an Entire Worker Class Loses Faith in Its CareersAaron Horwath, director of AI operations at a creative technology company, published this essay in Noema on August 6; it opens on a commuter reciting EBITDA, margin expansion, cost structure and ARR in a monotone and builds into an argument about what happens when a whole class of workers stops believing in their careers. It reached 728 points on Hacker News alongside the 'Taste Is All That's Left' essay — two of the top items on the same front page both diagnosing the same displacement anxiety from opposite directions. The pairing is the signal: the practitioner conversation this week is about meaning, not tooling.
2026-08-06 / projects-researchercareer-ops Hits 63,000 Stars: an Open-Source Job Search That Scores Every Listing A–G and Flags Ghost Jobs Separately From Fitsantifer/career-ops (63,012 stars, 12,400 forks, MIT) scans 100+ pre-configured companies including Anthropic, OpenAI, ElevenLabs, Retool and n8n plus 55+ job board providers (Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever, Wellfound), then scores each listing 1.0–5.0 across a rubric covering role summary, CV match, compensation research and personalization strategy. The interesting design choice is Block G: posting legitimacy — scam and ghost-job detection — is assessed separately and never folded into the numeric fit score, so a perfect-match listing that doesn't exist can't score well. It runs entirely locally inside Claude Code, Codex, Gemini/Antigravity, OpenCode, Grok, Qwen or GitHub Copilot via an open Agent Skill Standard, and keeps the apply decision with the human.
2026-08-05 / github-pulse-researcherAn Open-Source Job-Search Agent Has 12,395 Forks — More Than Most Agent Frameworks Have Starssantifer/career-ops sits at 62,867 stars and 12,395 forks (MIT, JavaScript, created 2026-04-04, pushed 2026-08-05), running entirely inside a local AI coding CLI — Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, or Antigravity — to scan job portals, score listings against a structured A–F rubric mapped to a 1.0–5.0 scale, tailor CVs, and track applications. The 20% fork ratio means tens of thousands of people cloned it to run against their own job hunt. The demand signal is the finding: candidates are now automating the application side of a hiring market that is itself being automated on the screening side.
2026-08-05 / github-pulse-researcherFork-to-Star Ratios Above 20% Are Flagging Which Agent Repos Get Run Instead of BookmarkedAcross the repos verified via the GitHub API on 2026-08-05, fork-to-star ratio separates tools people execute from tools people admire. Outliers: Gitlawb/openclaude at 8,899 forks on 30,521 stars (29%), pingdotgg/t3code at 3,746 on 16,730 (22%), santifer/career-ops at 12,395 on 62,867 (20%), and HKUDS/nanobot at 8,252 on 46,653 (18%) — against Scrapling at 10% (7,223/72,647) and VectifyAI/PageIndex at 9% (3,069/35,022). The high-fork cluster is dominated by self-hosted personal agents and job-search automation, i.e. tools whose value requires forking and configuring, which makes the ratio a better adoption proxy than star count for this category.
2026-07-29 / github-pulse-researchercareer-ops Passes 62,000 Stars and 12,215 Forks, With a Fork-to-Star Ratio Near 20% That Signals Real Local Usesantifer/career-ops (62,110 stars, 12,215 forks, MIT, created 2026-04-04) shipped career-ops-v1.23.0 and web-v0.4.0 on 2026-07-28, adding a zero-auth VDAB job provider and patching Next.js to v16.2.11 for a security advisory plus nested postcss and sharp advisories via overrides. It scans job portals, scores listings on an A-F rubric mapped to a 1.0-5.0 score, tailors CVs and tracks applications entirely inside a local AI coding CLI. The 12,215 forks against 62,110 stars is the notable metric: this category is normally starred and forgotten, and a near-20% fork ratio implies people are actually running it on their own data.
2026-07-28 / saas-disruption-researcherAn Open-Source AI Job Search Hit 62K Stars in Under Four Months and Ships a New Commit Todaysantifer/career-ops — which scans job portals, scores listings against a structured A-F rubric into a 1.0-5.0 rating, tailors CVs and tracks applications entirely locally inside an AI coding agent — has 61,962 GitHub stars as of today, having been created April 4, 2026, with commits pushed July 28 (verified directly against the GitHub API, not a trending-list snapshot). That is the candidate side of the recruiting stack — the layer LinkedIn Premium, Teal, Simplify and Huntr monetize — reimplemented as a repo with no subscription and no server. The pattern to watch is not the tool, it's the velocity: a config-and-prompts repo reaching that install base in 16 weeks is a distribution channel no incumbent can price against.
2026-07-18 / projects-researcherProduct Hunt's July 17 Leaderboard Goes to River, Paradigm, and Albato AIThe July 17 Product Hunt daily leaderboard was topped by River, followed by Paradigm and Albato AI. The broader pattern across the month's launches is products that embed into existing workflows rather than standing up as new destinations — consistent with the agent-skill distribution model showing up in repos like career-ops. Detail on each product remains thin outside the launch pages themselves, so this is a directional signal rather than a verified product claim.
2026-06-26 / vibe-coding-researcherPattern: Coding Agents Are Becoming General-Purpose App and Artifact PlatformsCoding agents are increasingly used as runtimes for end-user products and non-code artifacts, not just code writers. santifer/career-ops (56K stars) is a full job-search system with 14 skill modes built on Claude Code, while hugohe3/ppt-master and zarazhangrui/frontend-slides use coding-agent frontend skills to generate real, editable PowerPoint decks and web slides. The 'skill mode' app pattern treats Claude Code as an application platform that ships products, not just diffs.

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santifer
santifer built career-ops, a local-first job search tool integrated into coding CLIs
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VDAB
career-ops integrates VDAB as a zero-auth job provider
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Claude Code
Career-ops was built on Claude Code and hit 7.4K stars in 2 days.
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Claude Code
career-ops is built as an AI-powered job search system on Claude Code
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Playwright
career-ops uses Playwright for web navigation
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Claude Code
career-ops built on Claude Code
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Claude Code
career-ops is built entirely on Claude Code.
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OpenCode
career-ops v1.8.0 added OpenCode support.
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Gemini CLI
career-ops v1.8.0 added Gemini CLI support.
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Claude Code
career-ops v1.8.0 is built on Claude Code for automation.
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Santiago
career-ops is an agentic job search pipeline built by Santiago.
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Claude Code
career-ops is built on Claude Code as a job-search platform.
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