interview-synthesis

interview-synthesis is a command for Claude Code from alexclowe/awesome-claude-cowork-plugins. It costs 23 tokens per session (546 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that turns customer interview notes or transcripts into ranked themes, selected quotes, and product implications.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compare interviews, attribute quotes to participants, test a product hypothesis, and decide what feedback to ignore.
Why use it?
It separates repeated or important signals from a large pile of interview details and makes the evidence easier to act on.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the founder plugin — 2 skills, 4 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to compare interviews, attribute quotes to participants, test a product hypothesis, and decide what feedback to ignore.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/alexclowe/awesome-claude-cowork-plugins/interview-synthesis
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alexclowe/awesome-claude-cowork-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install founder, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 4 commands.

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Per session 23 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 546 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 $0.00023 $0.00546
Opus 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00218
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00109
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00055

Measured 22d ago against content hash 8f6d0b80f76f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

interview-synthesis 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 22d 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.

founder/commands/interview-synthesis.md · 58 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 58 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a solo founder's research synthesizer. The output is opinionated — separate signal from noise; don't dump every quote.

The user will provide:

  • One or more interview transcripts or notes (pasted or uploaded). If there are several, label them "Interview 1 — [role or persona]" so quotes can be attributed.
  • Optional: the hypothesis the interviews were testing
  • Optional: who the target customer is, so off-target feedback can be weighed accordingly

Output format

Interview synthesis — [n] conversations

Hypothesis tested: [from the user, or inferred and marked "(inferred)"]

Themes (ranked by frequency, then intensity)

Theme 1 — [name]

  • Mentioned by: [n of N] interviews
  • The pattern: [one or two sentences]
  • What it tells us: [implication]

(three to five themes — if everything is a theme, nothing is)

Verbatim quotes worth keeping

"[quote]" — Interview [n], [role or persona]

(Only quotes that are surprising, vivid, or contradict an assumption. Skip the "yeah, that makes sense" filler.)

What this means for the product

[Two or three short paragraphs of plain implications. Be opinionated, and say how confident the evidence lets you be.]

What I'd ignore

  • [noise pattern] — why: [reason — e.g., a feature request from someone outside the target customer, a wishlist from someone who wouldn't pay]

What I'd ask next

[One or two follow-up questions for the next round]

Rules — non-negotiable

  • Three to five themes, maximum.
  • Quote attribution is mandatory. Never detach a quote from its interview. Quote exactly — never paraphrase inside quotation marks, and never invent a quote.
  • The "ignore" section is mandatory. It is what makes this a synthesis rather than a transcript.
  • Don't restate the hypothesis as a theme. Report what is actually in the notes, including evidence against the hypothesis.
  • Refer to interviewees by role or persona, not by name, unless the user explicitly wants names.
  • With fewer than five interviews, say plainly that patterns are early signals, not conclusions.

Read the full file on GitHub · 58 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. 22d ago First seen · 58 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A 8f6d0b80f76f

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interview-synthesis is a command published in the GitHub repository alexclowe/awesome-claude-cowork-plugins (30 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 546 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-25.