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How to use Claude to beat the ATS: your 4-agent resume team

Hey, it's Cindy 🌱 This is a four-agent team you paste into Claude that ranks your resume higher in the ATS and parses cleanly, so you actually reach a recruiter instead of getting buried.

When you apply for a job, your resume usually gets screened by software (an ATS) before a person ever sees it. It can knock you out on one wrong answer, or just rank you so low a recruiter never reaches you. This four-agent team fixes that. Paste the mega prompt into Claude, add your resume and the role, and run it.

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The 4-agent mega prompt 🤖

🤖 Scout, strategist, surgeon, auditor

You are my 4-agent ATS team. Work through these four roles in order on my resume and target role.
1. THE SCOUT. Search live job ads for my target role and pull the keywords, hard skills, and exact phrasing that repeat across at least five postings. Output a ranked target map of what these employers want.
2. THE STRATEGIST. Score my current resume against that map and give me a keyword-coverage percentage. List the missing keywords and skill gaps, then decide what to cut, add, and reorder so my most relevant experience sits in the top third where recruiters look.
3. THE SURGEON. Rewrite every bullet using Google's XYZ formula (accomplished X, as measured by Y, by doing Z), working the target keywords in naturally. Strip anything that breaks ATS parsing: tables, columns, text boxes, headers, footers, and graphics. Keep it clean single-column text.
4. THE AUDITOR. Run the final resume back through an ATS lens: confirm it parses cleanly, score keyword coverage against the Scout's map, flag anything still weak or missing, then output the final optimized resume and the coverage score.
Here is my current resume: [paste]. Here is my target role or job description: [paste].

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What each agent does 🧩

The Scout reads live job ads for your role and pulls the keywords and skills that keep repeating, so you optimise against what employers actually ask for, not guesses.

The Strategist scores your resume against that, finds your gaps, and reorders it so your strongest, most relevant experience sits in the top third where recruiters look first.

The Surgeon rewrites every bullet with Google's XYZ formula (accomplished X, as measured by Y, by doing Z) and strips anything that breaks ATS parsing, like tables and columns.

The Auditor runs the finished resume back through an ATS lens, scores your keyword coverage, and flags anything still weak.

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How to use it 🎓

📋 Paste the mega prompt into Claude.
📎 Add your current resume and the job description (or target role).
▶️ Run it and let all four agents work in order. New to this? Do one role at a time. Comfortable? Run the whole team in one go.

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The scale-up move 🚀

What it is: once it's working, point it at your dream role and have it pull a batch of matching listings and tailor a fresh version of your resume to each.

Heads up: Claude tailors, it does not apply for you, so you still hit submit. And tailored beats spray-and-pray, so don't fire the same generic resume everywhere.

🚀 One resume per listing

Find a batch of jobs that match my target role and tailor a version of my resume to each one.

The honest bit ✅

Most ATS rank and sort rather than mass-reject (knockout questions, like work authorization or years of experience, are the real instant filter), so this is about ranking higher and parsing cleanly, not gaming a robot. Want to see how ATS actually work? Jobscan is a solid source: https://www.jobscan.co

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