Credibility Pass

# Prompt 05 — Credibility Pass

**Goal:** the final safety net. Run this prompt over the *completed* resume to flag invented metrics, fabricated claims, scope inflation, and lines that won't survive an interview question.

**Use when:** the resume is fully rewritten and you're about to submit it. This is the **"would I get caught?"** check.

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## What this prompt does (and does NOT do)

This is a **detection prompt**, not a rewriting prompt. It returns a list of flags, not a new resume. You then decide what to fix.

Designed to catch four failure modes:

1. **Invented metrics** — numbers that look concrete but have no source
2. **Scope inflation** — "led" when reality was "contributed to"
3. **Phantom artifacts** — a project or system named that the candidate didn't actually own
4. **Unsurvivable claims** — bullets that collapse the moment a recruiter asks one follow-up

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## Variables

- `{{RESUME_TEXT}}` — the full resume text after passes 01–04
- `{{GROUND_TRUTH}}` — a candid list of what the candidate *actually* did. **The user writes this in plain English, off-resume.** Example:
  ```
  - Was on the payments team for 18 months, junior eng for the first 6.
  - Did not lead the monolith split — was one of 3 engineers; the staff eng led it. I owned the orders service.
  - The 47% latency drop in the original draft was my guess; never measured.
  - On-call rotation is real: 1 week / month for the last year.
  ```

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## Prompt (copy-paste into ChatGPT / Claude / Gemini)