From Open Source to Open Roles: AI-Powered Recruitment Agent

This is a submission for the Agent.ai Challenge: Productivity-Pro Agent (See Details)

What I Built

I built GitHub Talent Matcher, an Agent designed to evaluate GitHub profiles and activity data. This Agent helps technical recruiters by analyzing a candidate's contributions, identifying key skills, estimating hiring costs, and suggesting suitable roles. The process is simple and intuitive, making it easy to gain valuable insights from GitHub data.

Input

• Criteria: A free-text description of the ideal candidate, including desired skills, responsibilities, and preferences. For example: "Looking for a backend developer skilled in database optimization and problem-solving, who can contribute to scalable systems."
• GitHub IDs: A list of GitHub usernames (entered line by line) for evaluation.

Output

• Key Skills: A list of the candidate's top 3 technical abilities identified from their GitHub activity.
• Suggested Position: A role recommendation based on the candidate's strengths.
• Hiring Cost: An estimated monthly hiring cost in USD based on the candidate’s experience and contributions.
• Alignment Score: A percentage indicating how closely the candidate matches the input criteria.
• Candidate Overview: A brief but detailed description of the candidate’s GitHub contributions and technical highlights.

Demo

If you're not a recruiter, don’t worry—this Agent is still fun to try! If you’ve contributed to open-source projects, enter your own GitHub ID to see how it evaluates your activity. You might be surprised by the results!

https://agent.ai/agent/gitHub-talent-matcher

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Result

Here’s a demo using my own GitHub ID! If you’re curious, feel free to consider hiring me too—although I have to warn you, my English skills might not be up to par! 😉

Additional Insights for Recruiters

While this Agent focuses on analyzing individual GitHub profiles, another powerful strategy for recruiters is leveraging GitHub follower data. By identifying and listing the followers of users already within your organization, you can:

• Discover potential candidates who are already connected to your network.
• Identify individuals who may share similar interests or technical skills with your team members.

Why This Feature Isn’t Included

Due to GitHub API permissions, analyzing follower data requires a token with organization-level access. Using such tokens in Agent.ai raised security concerns, as receiving and handling sensitive tokens directly from users might not be ideal in this context.

For recruiters interested in leveraging this strategy, we recommend creating a script with the help of your engineering team or writing one yourself to generate a list of followers from your organization's GitHub users. This can be a highly effective way to discover candidates already connected to your team and expand your recruitment reach.

Agent.ai Experience

Building this Agent with Agent.ai Builder was a fun and smooth experience! The platform offers so many great features, and I was impressed by how easy it was to get started.

Key Takeaways

GitHub Data Retrieval:

I decided to set up my own external API for fetching GitHub data. While the platform allows you to run scripts on AWS Lambda, I hesitated to include sensitive information like API tokens directly in the script. If Agent.ai adds a feature to securely store secrets in the future, it would make this process even more convenient!

Free Access to Major LLM APIs

Being able to integrate OpenAI and other major LLMs (for free!) was such a great surprise. It made experimenting with and refining the Agent’s functionality a breeze.

Dynamic Referencing with Jinja

I discovered that templates support references like {{user.name}} for dynamic data manipulation. Out of curiosity, I tried {{user.skills[1]}} and found that deeper indexing works as well!

Additionally, I noticed an example in the if-block explanation that mentioned Jinja Template for i.e. user_age > 18. It seems like Jinja syntax is supported, but more detailed documentation on this would be really helpful for exploring its full potential.🙌

Wishlist for the Future

• A built-in feature for securely storing API keys or secrets would be super helpful.
• Clearer documentation on advanced features like Jinja templates would make it even easier to take full advantage of the platform.

Overall, I had a fantastic time building this Agent and exploring the platform. I’m excited to see what new features might be added in the future!