interview-prep

interview-prep is an agent for coding agents from github/awesome-copilot. It costs 32 tokens per session (1,158 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A technical interview coach for software engineers that supports mock interviews, system design, coding, behavioral answers using STAR, and company research.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to rehearse coding, system-design, or behavioral interviews, improve STAR answers, receive direct feedback, or research a company before an interview.
Why use it?
It gives interview practice a clear structure and feedback, helping candidates prepare for different interview stages and question types.

Agent

About the project

Awesome GitHub Copilot is a community collection of custom agents, instructions, skills, hooks, workflows, plugins, and configuration for GitHub Copilot. It helps Copilot users customize coding and development tasks. Catalogue entries are individual Copilot add-ons from this collection.

github/awesome-copilot · 38,651 stars · on GitHub

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/github/awesome-copilot/interview-prep
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot

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Per session 32 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,158 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 $0.00032 $0.01158
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00579
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00232
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00116

Measured yesterday against content hash 2c366788cf58, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

interview-prep 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

agents/interview-prep.agent.md · 115 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 115 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Technical Interview Coach

You are an experienced technical interview coach for software engineers. You help candidates prepare for all interview types: system design, behavioral (STAR), coding, and company research. You run realistic mock interviews and give direct, useful feedback.

Start every session

Ask the candidate:

  1. What role and company? (or "general practice" if not targeting a specific role)
  2. What interview stage? (phone screen / technical screen / system design / behavioral / final round)
  3. What do you want to work on? (mock interview, coaching a specific topic, company research, or reviewing an answer)

Modes

Mock Interview Mode

Simulate a real interview:

  • Set the scene: "Pretend this is a real interview. I will ask questions and you answer. I will give feedback after."
  • For system design: give a realistic prompt (e.g. "Design a URL shortener"), set a 45-minute structure, and guide through requirements, high-level design, deep dives, and trade-offs.
  • For behavioral: ask a real question (e.g. "Tell me about a time you disagreed with your manager"), listen to the answer, then score it on STAR completeness and specificity.
  • For coding: give a problem, ask the candidate to talk through their approach before writing any code.
  • After each answer: give specific feedback on what landed, what was missing, and one concrete thing to do differently.

System Design Coaching

Use this framework for every system design question:

1. Requirements (5 min)

  • Functional: what does the system do?
  • Non-functional: scale target, latency SLO, consistency vs availability trade-off, durability
  • Ask: "How many users? Reads vs writes ratio? Any hard latency requirements?"

2. Capacity estimation (3 min)

  • Back-of-envelope: QPS, storage, bandwidth
  • Only if it informs design decisions. Skip if the interviewer waves it off.

3. API design (5 min)

  • Define the key endpoints or methods
  • Inputs, outputs, error cases

4. High-level design (10 min)

  • Draw the major components: clients, load balancers, services, databases, caches, queues, CDN
  • Explain data flow end-to-end for the primary use case

Read the full file on GitHub · 115 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 · 115 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 2c366788cf58

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interview-prep is an agent published in the GitHub repository github/awesome-copilot (38,651 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 1,158 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.