Resume

Date formats: "2024" (year), "2024-01" (month), "2024-01-15T00:00:00Z" (full).

{
  "contact": {
    "name": "Jane Doe",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "phone": "+1-555-0100",
    "location": { "city": "San Francisco", "state": "CA", "country": "USA" },
    "links": [
      { "uri": "https://linkedin.com/in/janedoe", "label": "LinkedIn" },
      { "uri": "https://github.com/janedoe", "label": "GitHub" }
    ]
  },
  "summary": "Senior software engineer with 8 years of experience...",
  "skills": {
    "title": "Technical Skills",
    "categories": [
      { "category": "Languages", "items": ["Go", "Python", "TypeScript"] },
      { "category": "Infrastructure", "items": ["AWS", "Kubernetes", "Terraform"] }
    ]
  },
  "experience": {
    "title": "Experience",
    "positions": [
      {
        "company": "Acme Corp",
        "title": "Senior Software Engineer",
        "employment_type": "Full-time",
        "highlights": [
          "Reduced API latency by 40% by migrating to a distributed cache layer serving 2M daily requests",
          "Led a team of 4 engineers to deliver a real-time analytics pipeline processing 500K events/sec"
        ],
        "dates": { "start": "2022-01" },
        "location": { "city": "San Francisco", "state": "CA" },
        "technologies": ["Go", "Redis", "Kafka"]
      }
    ]
  },
  "education": {
    "title": "Education",
    "institutions": [
      {
        "institution": "MIT",
        "degree": { "name": "B.S. Computer Science", "descriptions": ["Dean's List"] },
        "gpa": { "gpa": "3.8", "max_gpa": "4.0" },
        "dates": { "start": "2014-09", "end": "2018-05" },
        "location": { "city": "Cambridge", "state": "MA" }
      }
    ]
  },
  "projects": {
    "title": "Projects",
    "projects": [
      {
        "name": "OpenTracer",
        "highlights": ["Distributed tracing library with 2K GitHub stars"],
        "link": { "uri": "https://github.com/janedoe/opentracer" },
        "technologies": ["Go", "gRPC"]
      }
    ]
  },
  "certifications": {
    "title": "Certifications",
    "items": [
      { "name": "AWS Solutions Architect", "issuer": "Amazon", "date": "2023-06" }
    ]
  },
  "languages": {
    "title": "Languages",
    "languages": [
      { "name": "English", "proficiency": "Native" },
      { "name": "Spanish", "proficiency": "Professional" }
    ]
  }
}

CLI Commands

Generate output

incipit generate resume.json -t modern-html          # HTML -> PDF
incipit generate resume.json -t modern-latex          # LaTeX -> PDF
incipit generate resume.json -t modern-docx           # Word document
incipit generate resume.json -t modern-markdown       # Markdown file
incipit generate resume.json                          # All templates
incipit generate resume.json -t modern-html -o ./out  # Custom output dir
incipit generate resume.json --dry-run                # Validate without generating

Schema

incipit generate --schema

List templates

incipit templates list

AI commands

# Create structured JSON from plain text
incipit ai create resume.txt
incipit ai create resume.txt -o my-resume.json

# Review and score a resume
incipit ai review resume.json

# Optimize for a job description
incipit ai optimize resume.json -j "Senior Go developer..."
incipit ai optimize resume.json -j job-description.txt -o optimized.json

# Specify provider explicitly
incipit ai review resume.json -p anthropic -m claude-sonnet-4-6-20250514
incipit ai review resume.json -p ollama -m qwen3.5:4b

Available Templates

Writing Good Resume Content

When creating or improving resume highlights, follow these guidelines:

• Quantify: use numbers, percentages, dollar amounts, team sizes, timeframes
• XYZ formula: "Accomplished [X] as measured by [Y], by doing [Z]"
• Action verbs: start each bullet with a strong verb (Led, Built, Reduced, Designed, Migrated)
• Concise: 1-2 lines per bullet point max
• Specific: reference technologies, methodologies, and concrete outcomes
• No fabrication: only include data supported by the user's actual experience

Workflow

1. Get the schema: incipit generate --schema
2. Write resume.json matching the schema (the agent does this directly)
3. Validate: incipit generate resume.json --dry-run
4. Generate: incipit generate resume.json -t modern-html