What is Career Ops

Career Ops is an open source job search system that runs inside your AI coding assistant. You give it a job posting — a URL or raw text — and it reads the description, scores the role against your background, generates a tailored PDF resume, and logs everything to a local tracker. All of it happens in one command, without you touching a spreadsheet.

It was built by Santifer to manage a real job search — 740+ offers evaluated, one Head of Applied AI role landed. He open sourced it so anyone could use the same system for free.

Philosophy

Open source, seriously

Career Ops has no paid tier, no waitlist, and no account. You clone a repo, fill in a config file, and run it locally. Your CV, your profile, and your application history never leave your machine unless you push them somewhere yourself.

The project grows through contributions. If you add a company portal scraper, improve the scoring logic, or fix a bug — that improvement ships to everyone. That is the whole model.

AI-native and agnostic

Career Ops does not ship its own AI. It runs as a set of slash commands and prompt files inside whichever AI coding CLI you already use — Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini CLI, Qwen CLI. The AI does the reasoning; Career Ops gives it the structure, the context, and the tools.

This means you are not locked in. If a better model ships next month, you switch your CLI and Career Ops runs on top of it unchanged.

When to use Career Ops

Career Ops is the right tool when you are running an active, structured job search — not casually browsing.

It works best when you:

• Have a CV you are happy with and want to tailor it per application without rewriting it manually every time
• Are tracking multiple applications and want a single source of truth instead of a spreadsheet
• Want to apply only to roles that actually fit, not everything that looks vaguely relevant
• Are open to running commands in a terminal (you do not need to write code)

It is probably not what you need if you are sending one or two applications and are done. The setup — cloning the repo, configuring your profile, adding your CV — takes about fifteen minutes. That investment pays off once you are evaluating more than a handful of roles.

What it is not

Career Ops does not apply to jobs for you. It evaluates, scores, generates, and tracks — but every application is your decision. Nothing gets submitted without your approval.

It is also not a resume builder or a LinkedIn optimizer. It is a pipeline. You bring the resume; Career Ops makes sure each version of it is tuned to the job in front of you.