How to use the Designer Resume Writer agent skill

What the designer-resume skill makes the agent do

Once installed, the agent helps you explain your design contribution and judgment in readable resume text rather than generic buzzwords. It connects your research and craft to the decisions you influenced and the outcomes that followed.

The skill asks which design discipline and level you are targeting, what you personally owned, how you worked with others and which artifacts you can share. It then writes experience bullets that lead with the design problem, your contribution and the outcome or what you learned.

• Identifies the evidence that fits your focus: product or UX, user research, UI and design systems, service design, or visual and brand work
• Keeps claims honest, including small sample sizes, prototype-only work and unshipped projects
• Points to existing portfolio artifacts and lists missing evidence it needs from you
• Refuses to invent facts, personas, usability tests, workshops or metrics

How to install the designer-resume skill

You can add the skill in two ways. In either case, the skill is a folder whose main file is SKILL.md. Download the ZIP for the designer-resume skill from the item page on this site first.

To install it for yourself across projects, unzip the download into your ~/.claude/skills/ folder. To install it for one project only, unzip it into the .claude/skills/ folder inside that project.

If you use the Claude apps, you can instead upload the ZIP under Settings, then Capabilities, then Skills.

How to trigger the skill with a natural request

You do not need a special command. Describe what you need in plain language and say that it is about your resume as a designer. The agent should recognise the request as a design resume task and follow the skill.

Good starting requests name your discipline, your level and the material you have. You can also paste your current resume text, a list of projects and any notes about research or outcomes.

• Help me rewrite my UX designer resume for a senior product designer role. I have three shipped projects and two prototype-only projects.
• Turn these notes about a usability study into resume bullets. There were five sessions on a prototype and I do not have a launch metric.
• I am moving from visual design into service design. Help me show my relevant work without overstating my research experience.
• My portfolio is private and client work is confidential. Write resume text that does not need public links.

What the skill needs and what it asks you for

The item page lists no required software or prerequisites for this skill. It does not run scripts and does not use the network, so it works from the material you supply in the conversation.

You do not need a public portfolio. The skill is designed to work from supplied material, and a private portfolio or redacted sample is treated as valid evidence. Have your project details, roles and any usability or research results ready, because the agent will ask for them.

• Your target discipline and level
• What you personally owned on each project
• Who you worked with and which decisions were yours
• Which work samples you are allowed to share

Example: turning a usability result into an honest bullet

Suppose you redesigned a prototype flow after five usability sessions, and four of five participants completed the revised task, compared with two before. No production launch happened.

A good bullet keeps that context: reworked a prototype flow after five usability sessions, with task completion improving from two of five to four of five participants in the follow-up test. The skill keeps the small-sample and prototype context rather than inflating it into a larger claim.

Safety notes on scripts and network access

The item page states that this skill runs no scripts and uses no network access. Its only listed file is SKILL.md.

The skill treats the material you paste as data to work from. It asks you to avoid sharing participant information, client assets or your personal identity in anything that would be searched, and it does not publish a portfolio or submit an application as part of drafting. Any change to an account requires a current read, your review and your explicit authorization of the exact edits.

• Review every bullet before you send it, since you are responsible for the accuracy of your resume
• Remove confidential client names or details you are not permitted to share

Tips for better results

The more specific your evidence, the more useful the output. Give the agent real numbers, study context and your exact role, and let it ask follow-up questions rather than filling gaps yourself.

For a long project narrative, use the separate portfolio-case-study skill instead. The designer-resume skill redirects those requests, and it also works on its own. resume-tailor is another related skill the source mentions, if it is installed.

• Say whether research was actually run, and which method was used
• Mention if work was prototype-only or unshipped
• Ask for a revision after you read the first draft rather than starting over