OPEN SPECIFICATION • DRAFT 2020-12 • v1.0.0

Canonical Career Schema (CCS v1.0.0)

The zero-hallucination, graph-oriented career metadata standard engineered for AI resume tailoring, Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), and W3C Verifiable Credentials.

Download JSON Schema (v1.0.0) DID Document (did:web:tlrd.ai) Public Ed25519 JWKS

1. Canonical Identifier & Versioning

{
  "$schema": "https://tlrd.ai/schemas/v1/canonical-career.json",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "metadata": {
    "issuer_did": "did:web:tlrd.ai"
  }
}

2. Atomic Achievements (XYZ / STAR Decomposition)

Every experience and project accomplishment is decomposed into verifiable components:

{
  "id": "ach_8f91a2",
  "text": "Reduced p99 latency by 42% by migrating sync endpoints to async Celery workers.",
  "framework": "XYZ",
  "action": "Migrated synchronous endpoints to async Celery workers",
  "context": "High-throughput API processing 80M daily requests",
  "metric": {
    "value": 42.0,
    "display_value": "42%",
    "unit": "percent",
    "direction": "decrease",
    "metric_type": "latency"
  },
  "associated_skills": ["Python", "Celery", "Redis"]
}

3. Cryptographic Verification (did:web:tlrd.ai)

Repository ownership, certifications, and vault snapshots are signed using Ed25519 (`EdDSA` compact JWS) anchored to did:web:tlrd.ai#ccs-key-1 for offline third-party verification.

GET https://me.tlrd.ai/{username}/resume.json?format=ccs
GET https://me.tlrd.ai/{username}/resume.json?format=jsonresume
GET https://me.tlrd.ai/{username}/resume.json?format=hropen
GET https://me.tlrd.ai/{username}/resume.json?format=vc