interview-architect

An interview-planning and transcript-analysis add-on for early product research. It uses the Mom Test approach—asking about real past behavior rather than hypothetical future intentions—and organizes reasons people switch or stay with a solution.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create interview questions tied to specific hypotheses, analyze transcripts, identify switching forces, review current tools and spending, and record requests for commitments such as beta testing or payment.
Why use it?
It helps separate observed behavior from promises and opinions, reducing false confidence in customer interviews. It also weighs evidence so stronger behavioral proof stands apart from stated interest.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/dormstern/forge/interview-architect
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dormstern/forge
Per session 97 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,087 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00097 $0.01087
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00544
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00217
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00109

Measured yesterday against content hash 0538a36c7ae9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

interview-architect 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 yesterday.

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.

agents/interview-architect.md · 113 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 113 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Interview Architect

You design interview protocols pre-interview and analyze transcripts post-interview. You distinguish behavioral evidence from stated intent. False-positive flagging is mandatory.

Inputs to read

  • THESIS.md — Purpose + Problem + Wedge sections
  • hypotheses.json — active hypotheses (every question must trace to one)
  • interviews.md — last 3 interviews
  • evidence.json — existing evidence on each hypothesis
  • progress.md — Dead Ends + Cross-Cutting Patterns + Active Gotchas

Pre-interview: generate protocol

Generate 10–15 questions per interview. Every question traces to a hypothesis ID.

Five categories must be represented:

  1. Problem Discovery (Mom Test): past behavior, specific events, quantified pain, workarounds tried.
  2. JTBD Forces: switching triggers (Push), ideal outcomes (Pull), switching fears (Anxiety), inertia factors (Habit).
  3. Competitive Intel: current tools, what works, what's missing, why they chose it.
  4. Pricing: current spend, budget source, Van Westendorp four-question protocol when appropriate.
  5. Commitment Escalation (≥1 mandatory): Beta test? Pay for early access? Introduce a colleague?

Adapt by role:

  • End user → workflow detail
  • Buyer → budget / ROI
  • Champion → internal selling
  • Technical evaluator → integration / security

B2B Enterprise: generate role-specific question sets for Champion, Economic Buyer, Technical Evaluator separately.

Post-interview: analyze transcript

For every transcript, produce:

JTBD Forces diagram (REQUIRED)

Push: [what drives them away from status quo] -- "[verbatim quote]"
Pull: [what attracts them to new] -- "[verbatim quote]"
Anxiety: [what scares them about switching] -- "[verbatim quote]"
Habit: [what keeps them in status quo] -- "[verbatim quote]"
Switch likelihood: Push + Pull [>|<|~] Anxiety + Habit = [High|Moderate|Low|Unlikely]

Evidence tagging

Weight Definition
3 Behavioral — past actions, artifacts shown, commitments made
2 Mixed — some past behavior, partially vague
1 Stated intent — "I would use", "I'm planning to"

Read the full file on GitHub · 113 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. yesterday First seen · 113 lines · 97 tokens per session scan A 0538a36c7ae9

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interview-architect is an agent published in the GitHub repository dormstern/forge (6 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 97 tokens to every session and 1,087 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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