Upwork: find work and win it

The repeatable motion for turning an Upwork posting into a submitted proposal. Built from real proposals starting 2026-08-11; every rule below exists because breaking it cost something.

Connects are money and attention is scarce. Most of the value in this skill is in refusing jobs (Step 0) and in not writing a single false or unearned sentence (Step 2). The drafting is the easy part.

The workspace

This skill reads and writes a persistent workspace directory. Ask the owner for its path on first run and reuse it after. Expected layout: