peregrine/scripts/generate_cover_letter.py
pyr0ball bc94a92681 feat: extract hard-coded personal references from all scripts via UserProfile
Replace hard-coded paths (/Library/Documents/JobSearch), names (Alex Rivera),
NDA sets (_NDA_COMPANIES), and the scraper path with UserProfile-driven lookups.
Update tests to be profile-agnostic (no user.yaml in peregrine config dir).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-02-24 18:45:39 -08:00

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# scripts/generate_cover_letter.py
"""
Generate a cover letter in the candidate's voice using few-shot examples from their corpus.
Usage:
conda run -n job-seeker python scripts/generate_cover_letter.py \
--title "Director of Customer Success" \
--company "Acme Corp" \
--description "We are looking for..."
Or pass a staging DB job ID:
conda run -n job-seeker python scripts/generate_cover_letter.py --job-id 42
"""
import argparse
import re
import sys
from pathlib import Path
sys.path.insert(0, str(Path(__file__).parent.parent))
from scripts.user_profile import UserProfile
_USER_YAML = Path(__file__).parent.parent / "config" / "user.yaml"
_profile = UserProfile(_USER_YAML) if UserProfile.exists(_USER_YAML) else None
LETTERS_DIR = _profile.docs_dir if _profile else Path.home() / "Documents" / "JobSearch"
LETTER_GLOB = "*Cover Letter*.md"
# Background injected into every prompt so the model has the candidate's facts
SYSTEM_CONTEXT = (
f"You are writing cover letters for {_profile.name}. {_profile.career_summary}"
if _profile else
"You are a professional cover letter writer. Write in first person."
)
# ── Mission-alignment detection ───────────────────────────────────────────────
# When a company/JD signals one of these preferred industries, the cover letter
# prompt injects a hint so Para 3 can reflect genuine personal connection.
# This does NOT disclose any personal disability or family information.
_MISSION_SIGNALS: dict[str, list[str]] = {
"music": [
"music", "spotify", "tidal", "soundcloud", "bandcamp", "apple music",
"distrokid", "cd baby", "landr", "beatport", "reverb", "vinyl",
"streaming", "artist", "label", "live nation", "ticketmaster", "aeg",
"songkick", "concert", "venue", "festival", "audio", "podcast",
"studio", "record", "musician", "playlist",
],
"animal_welfare": [
"animal", "shelter", "rescue", "humane society", "spca", "aspca",
"veterinary", "vet ", "wildlife", "pet ", "adoption", "foster",
"dog", "cat", "feline", "canine", "sanctuary", "zoo",
],
"education": [
"education", "school", "learning", "student", "edtech", "classroom",
"curriculum", "tutoring", "academic", "university", "kids", "children",
"youth", "literacy", "khan academy", "duolingo", "chegg", "coursera",
"instructure", "canvas lms", "clever", "district", "teacher",
"k-12", "k12", "grade", "pedagogy",
],
}
_candidate = _profile.name if _profile else "the candidate"
_MISSION_NOTES: dict[str, str] = {
"music": (
f"This company is in the music industry, which is one of {_candidate}'s genuinely "
"ideal work environments — they have a real personal passion for the music scene. "
"Para 3 should warmly and specifically reflect this authentic alignment, not as "
"a generic fan statement, but as an honest statement of where they'd love to apply "
"their CS skills."
),
"animal_welfare": (
f"This organization works in animal welfare/rescue — one of {_candidate}'s dream-job "
"domains and a genuine personal passion. Para 3 should reflect this authentic "
"connection warmly and specifically, tying their CS skills to this mission."
),
"education": (
f"This company works in children's education or EdTech — one of {_candidate}'s ideal "
"work domains, reflecting genuine personal values around learning and young people. "
"Para 3 should reflect this authentic connection specifically and warmly."
),
}
def detect_mission_alignment(company: str, description: str) -> str | None:
"""Return a mission hint string if company/JD matches a preferred industry, else None."""
text = f"{company} {description}".lower()
for industry, signals in _MISSION_SIGNALS.items():
if any(sig in text for sig in signals):
return _MISSION_NOTES[industry]
return None
def load_corpus() -> list[dict]:
"""Load all .md cover letters from LETTERS_DIR. Returns list of {path, company, text}."""
corpus = []
for path in sorted(LETTERS_DIR.glob(LETTER_GLOB)):
text = path.read_text(encoding="utf-8", errors="ignore").strip()
if not text:
continue
# Extract company from filename: "Tailscale Cover Letter.md" → "Tailscale"
company = re.sub(r"\s*Cover Letter.*", "", path.stem, flags=re.IGNORECASE).strip()
corpus.append({"path": path, "company": company, "text": text})
return corpus
def find_similar_letters(job_description: str, corpus: list[dict], top_k: int = 3) -> list[dict]:
"""Return the top_k letters most similar to the job description by TF-IDF cosine sim."""
from sklearn.feature_extraction.text import TfidfVectorizer
from sklearn.metrics.pairwise import cosine_similarity
if not corpus:
return []
docs = [job_description] + [c["text"] for c in corpus]
vectorizer = TfidfVectorizer(stop_words="english", max_features=500)
tfidf = vectorizer.fit_transform(docs)
sims = cosine_similarity(tfidf[0:1], tfidf[1:])[0]
ranked = sorted(zip(sims, corpus), key=lambda x: x[0], reverse=True)
return [entry for _, entry in ranked[:top_k]]
def build_prompt(
title: str,
company: str,
description: str,
examples: list[dict],
mission_hint: str | None = None,
) -> str:
parts = [SYSTEM_CONTEXT.strip(), ""]
if examples:
parts.append(f"=== STYLE EXAMPLES ({_candidate}'s past letters) ===\n")
for i, ex in enumerate(examples, 1):
parts.append(f"--- Example {i} ({ex['company']}) ---")
parts.append(ex["text"])
parts.append("")
parts.append("=== END EXAMPLES ===\n")
if mission_hint:
parts.append(f"⭐ Mission alignment note (for Para 3): {mission_hint}\n")
parts.append(f"Now write a new cover letter for:")
parts.append(f" Role: {title}")
parts.append(f" Company: {company}")
if description:
snippet = description[:1500].strip()
parts.append(f"\nJob description excerpt:\n{snippet}")
parts.append("\nWrite the full cover letter now:")
return "\n".join(parts)
def generate(title: str, company: str, description: str = "", _router=None) -> str:
"""Generate a cover letter and return it as a string.
_router is an optional pre-built LLMRouter (used in tests to avoid real LLM calls).
"""
corpus = load_corpus()
examples = find_similar_letters(description or f"{title} {company}", corpus)
mission_hint = detect_mission_alignment(company, description)
if mission_hint:
print(f"[cover-letter] Mission alignment detected for {company}", file=sys.stderr)
prompt = build_prompt(title, company, description, examples, mission_hint=mission_hint)
if _router is None:
sys.path.insert(0, str(Path(__file__).parent.parent))
from scripts.llm_router import LLMRouter
_router = LLMRouter()
print(f"[cover-letter] Generating for: {title} @ {company}", file=sys.stderr)
print(f"[cover-letter] Style examples: {[e['company'] for e in examples]}", file=sys.stderr)
result = _router.complete(prompt)
return result.strip()
def main() -> None:
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=f"Generate a cover letter in {_candidate}'s voice")
parser.add_argument("--title", help="Job title")
parser.add_argument("--company", help="Company name")
parser.add_argument("--description", default="", help="Job description text")
parser.add_argument("--job-id", type=int, help="Load job from staging.db by ID")
parser.add_argument("--output", help="Write output to this file path")
args = parser.parse_args()
title, company, description = args.title, args.company, args.description
if args.job_id is not None:
from scripts.db import DEFAULT_DB
import sqlite3
conn = sqlite3.connect(DEFAULT_DB)
conn.row_factory = sqlite3.Row
row = conn.execute("SELECT * FROM jobs WHERE id = ?", (args.job_id,)).fetchone()
conn.close()
if not row:
print(f"No job with id={args.job_id} in staging.db", file=sys.stderr)
sys.exit(1)
job = dict(row)
title = title or job.get("title", "")
company = company or job.get("company", "")
description = description or job.get("description", "")
if not title or not company:
parser.error("--title and --company are required (or use --job-id)")
letter = generate(title, company, description)
if args.output:
Path(args.output).write_text(letter)
print(f"Saved to {args.output}", file=sys.stderr)
else:
print(letter)
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()