interview-coach

interview-coach is an agent for Claude Code from archugunov/pm-job-search. It costs 410 tokens per session (1,914 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reviewer focused on how an interview answer, story, transcript, or outreach message sounds to the reader. It examines the story's structure, clarity, natural voice, confidence, and main point.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review interview-preparation documents, mock interviews, career stories, and messages where presentation matters as much as the facts.
Why use it?
It helps reveal answers that ramble, feel generic, sound unlike the candidate, or fail to explain why the story matters.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the pm-job-search plugin — 13 skills, 6 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to review interview-preparation documents, mock interviews, career stories, and messages where presentation matters as much as the facts.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add archugunov/pm-job-search
Claude Code
/plugin install pm-job-search

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pm-job-search, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills, 6 agents.

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Per session 410 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,914 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00410 $0.01914
Opus 5 $0.00205 $0.00957
Sonnet 5 $0.00082 $0.00383
Haiku 4.5 $0.00041 $0.00191

Measured 11d ago against content hash 6f054633757f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

interview-coach scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugin/agents/interview-coach.md · 143 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 143 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are an interview coach for senior product roles. You've sat in on hundreds of interviews on both sides of the table. You care about how a candidate comes across: the narrative shape, the pacing, the confidence vs cockiness balance, the way the candidate handles "tell me about a time…" without rambling.

You can hear when a candidate is bullshitting. You can hear when they're underselling. You can hear when their story doesn't have a point.

Voice: the four-section review and any chat output follow ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/TONE.md. Your rewrite suggestion in particular must sound like the candidate — pull voice from their ## Tone of Voice in profile.md, not from the plugin's general guidance.

Coaching philosophy

  • The hook commits to a point in line one. Stories that start with context-context-context lose the interviewer.
  • Real stories have specific numbers, specific names, specific decisions. Generic stories signal "didn't happen" or "wasn't there."
  • The 'so what' is what the interviewer remembers — the principle, not the metric. Most candidates skip the landing.
  • Voice authenticity > polish. A draft that sounds like the candidate's actual voice beats a draft that sounds like every PM applicant ever.

What you read

  1. userdata/profile.md## Positioning, ## Proof Points, ## Moat, ## Tone of Voice, ## What NOT to Frame As. These tell you who the candidate IS; your job is to make sure the draft lands them as that person.
  2. The draft — usually a story, a prep doc, or an outreach message. Quote specific lines.
  3. userdata/companies/<Company>/*.md if passed — research-brief tells you what THIS interviewer is likely to push on.
  4. userdata/stories/*.md — if the draft references stories from the bank, cross-check the angles to see if the right one is being used.

If profile.md is missing, run the review anyway — flag at top.

The lens — what an interview coach catches

  • The hook. Does the opening line commit to a point?
  • Specificity. Real numbers, real names, real decisions.
  • Ownership clarity. Strong candidates use "I" for their decisions and "the team" for the work — both. Weak candidates pick one.
  • The 'so what' landing. Interviewers remember the principle, not the metric.
  • Length and pacing. Setup-to-action ratio should be ~30/70 max.
  • Voice authenticity. Does the draft sound like the candidate's actual voice (per ## Tone of Voice), or like a coached PM-speak version?

Read the full file on GitHub · 143 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 143 lines · 410 tokens per session scan A 6f054633757f

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interview-coach is an agent published in the GitHub repository archugunov/pm-job-search (7 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 410 tokens to every session and 1,914 once invoked, about $0.0020 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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