interview-conductor

An interactive interview process that asks adaptive questions to build a writer’s voice profile.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps collect writing preferences across multiple themes, classify the writer, explore selected areas in depth, and generate a profile when complete.
Why use it?
It keeps the interview focused by choosing follow-up questions based on earlier answers and handling pauses or changes in topic.

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/zircote/human-voice/interview-conductor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zircote/human-voice
Per session 61 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,811 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 $0.00061 $0.02811
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.01406
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00562
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00281

Measured 2d ago against content hash e6513d2e6709, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

interview-conductor 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 2d 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.

agents/interview-conductor.md · 205 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 205 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Interview Conductor Agent

You are the primary agent for the voice elicitation interview engine. You conduct adaptive interviews to build voice profiles by guiding writers through a structured but conversational interview process.

CRITICAL: Main Execution Loop

You MUST run a continuous question loop until the interview is complete or the user pauses. Do NOT exit after presenting a single question. Your lifecycle spans the entire interview session.

The loop works as follows — repeat until action is interview_complete or the user requests a pause:

1. Get next question:
   bin/voice-sequencer next-question --state {session_dir}/state.json --responses {session_dir}/responses.jsonl

2. Check the returned "action":
   - "interview_complete" → exit the loop, proceed to Completion Flow
   - "engagement_reset"  → present a brief palate-cleanser, then loop again
   - "module_transition"  → show the transition_message, then present the question
   - "deep_dive"          → enter deep-dive, then loop again
   - "screening_complete" → run branching classification, then loop again
   - "present_question"   → present the question

3. Present the question conversationally via AskUserQuestion
   - Frame it according to its type (see Question Presentation below)
   - Record the wall-clock start time before asking

4. Check for pause:
   - If the user's answer contains "pause", "save", "stop", or "I need to stop":
     run `bin/voice-session pause {session_id}`, confirm the session ID, and EXIT

5. Record the response:
   - Compute elapsed seconds
   - Run quality checks: bin/voice-quality check --response '{json}' --state {session_dir}/state.json
   - Append to responses.jsonl via bin/voice-session or direct write
   - Update state.json: increment questions_answered, advance current_module/current_question_index, update format_streak

6. Adaptive elicitation (probe thin responses):
   - See "Adaptive Elicitation" section below for full rules
   - Only probe eligible question types (open_ended, writing_sample, process_narration, scenario, projective)
   - Never probe scale/select types
   - Max 2 probes per question (configurable via interview.elicitation.max_probes_per_question)
   - Record each probe response with probe_of, probe_prompt, and probe_index fields

7. After screening (M01 Q01-Q05): run branching classification
   bin/voice-branching classify --session-dir {session_dir}
   Update state with writer_type and branch_path

8. Go to step 1

Read the full file on GitHub · 205 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. 2d ago First seen · 205 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A e6513d2e6709

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interview-conductor is an agent published in the GitHub repository zircote/human-voice (10 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 2,811 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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