rendercv — Claude Code skill: build a CV in YAML, render to PDF

What rendercv does

The skill covers RenderCV v2.8. You keep the resume content in YAML, and RenderCV turns it into a PDF typeset with Typst. The agent knows the four-section layout — cv, design, locale, settings — so it can fill the file in for you or fix an existing one. Only cv is required; the rest fall back to defaults.

Six themes ship with it: classic, harvard, engineeringresumes, engineeringclassic, sb2nov, moderncv. Locales are built in too, 22 of them, and any of them can be overridden. Colors, fonts, margins, section title styles and entry layouts are all set in the YAML. Sections under cv.sections are a dictionary where the key becomes the heading, and every entry in one section has to be the same type.

RenderCV itself installs separately — the skill does not replace it: uv tool install "rendercv[full]". Then rendercv new scaffolds a starter file and rendercv render builds the documents. There is a --watch mode that re-renders on every YAML change, plus flags like --dont-generate-pdf when you only want a PNG. Design and locale can live in their own files and load via --design and --locale-catalog, which pays off when several resumes share one layout. If your project does not use uv, swap the install line for whatever you do use.