· 9 min read · 31 skills, free
First you brief the role with the hiring manager and promise candidates a reply at every stage. Then attract, source, screen and interview everyone on the same criteria, then decide and close. The agency desk gets its own four skills.
01What these skills are
This is AI for recruiting that leaves every hiring decision to a person: Claude drafts the brief, the search, the interview questions and the messages, in-house or on the agency desk.
The skills follow one search in eight parts, from briefing the role to closing the offer, with a desk of their own for agency recruiters.
The red line: Claude writes the search, the questions and the message, never the verdict. It does not screen, rank or score a candidate, and a person reads every application and makes every hiring decision.
Each skill is one named method or one artifact you walk away with, and ends with the decision a named person makes. It works from what you paste, with no ATS connector to install.
Pay transparency, work authorisation, automated decision rules and agency terms are sent to a qualified adviser rather than answered.
One zip: ready-to-install skill zips, readable SKILL.md files, and the evidence notes behind every method. Free, no signup. The same 31 skills live in our open repo, if you would rather read them before you install them.
Install in Claude Code
Two lines, and every skill in the pack loads at once.
/plugin marketplace add polar-bear-org/claude-skills /plugin install ai-for-recruiting-pack@polar-bear-skills
Using Claude on the web instead? Download the zip above and upload each skill from its install folder under Customize → Skills.
02The catalog
The set follows the search, in eight parts: briefing the role, keeping candidates in the loop, attracting, sourcing and reaching out, screening and interviewing, deciding and closing, the agency desk, and running the desk.
03How to use it
No fixed order. Bring one live search and open the skill that matches where it is stuck. The job scorecard feeds nearly everything after it.
A new role, and a brief nobody has agreed yet.
The search is running long and candidates are waiting.
You need to go and find people.
Every candidate assessed on the same criteria, stage by stage.
The interviews are done and a decision is due.
You recruit for clients.
04Setup guide
In Claude Code · two lines
/plugin marketplace add polar-bear-org/claude-skills /plugin install ai-for-recruiting-pack@polar-bear-skills
In Claude.ai or Claude Desktop · seven clicks
Unzip the pack: its skills folder holds all 31 skills. In Claude, click your name at the bottom left, then Settings.
Under Customize, choose Skills. Click Add, then Upload a skill.
Drag the skill's file into the box, or click to browse. You can add several at once.
In the pack folder, open skills, then the skill you want, and select its SKILL.md — recruit-intake-meeting is a good first one.
Claude shows the skill's name and what it does. Click Upload.
The skill opens on its own page. Its toggle should be on.
Type / and the skill's name, then say what you need.
Then try one
Run recruit-intake-meeting. My notes from the call with the hiring manager: [paste them here]
Run recruit-job-scorecard on this intake summary: [paste it here]
Run recruit-boolean-search. The job scorecard and the profiles the manager liked: [paste them here]
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Try for free05Quick reference
| Your situation | Skill to run |
|---|---|
| Need to pin down what the hiring manager wants? | Intake Meeting |
| Need one agreed definition of the job? | Job Scorecard |
| Need a pay range you can defend? | Salary Range Brief |
| Need to stop candidates hearing nothing? | Candidate Communication Plan |
| Need an advert the right people read? | Job Ad |
| Need strings that return the right people? | Boolean Search Strings |
| Need outreach that does not read as a template? | Recruiting Email Templates |
| Need a fair first screen at volume? | Screening Questions |
| Need every interviewer on the same plan? | Structured Interview |
| Need a blank form interviewers fill in? | Interview Scorecard |
| Need a debrief run on evidence? | Interview Debrief |
| Need a line on AI in your hiring? | AI Recruiting Policy |
06Standards
Every skill in the pack holds the same standard, the one we hold when we hire our own people:
07FAQ
31 Claude skills that follow one search in eight parts: brief the role, keep candidates in the loop, attract, source, screen and interview, decide and close, the agency desk, and running the desk. Each skill is one named method or one artifact.
In Claude Code, two lines install all 31 at once. In Claude.ai or Claude Desktop, download the zip, open Settings, Skills, Add, and upload the skills you want. Either way it takes about five minutes.
No. The skills work in Claude.ai, Claude Desktop and Claude Code. In the app you upload them yourself; in Claude Code one command installs the whole pack.
They are built as Claude Skills, and installing them is a Claude feature. Each one is a plain Markdown file, so you can read it and reuse the method elsewhere, but it will not load and trigger by itself outside Claude.
No. Claude writes the search, the questions and the message, never the verdict. It does not screen, rank or score a candidate. A person reads every application and makes every hiring decision.
Yes. It is free to use inside your company and in client work, and not for resale. There is no signup: the download and the install command are on this page.
08Who made this
These skills were written by Polar Bear, a people ops consultancy that runs its own company on Claude. The pack is free, and the same skills are open on GitHub.
Lantern is Polar Bear's content workspace. It turns your notes, documents and call transcripts into drafts for LinkedIn and other networks. You review them and publish the ones you like.