interview

interview is a command for coding agents from big-emotion/agent-atelier. It costs 28 tokens per session (80 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that asks detailed questions before suggesting a solution or plan. It focuses on clarifying the actual goal, not just the first proposed approach.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the start of a task when the desired outcome, constraints, or priorities need to be clarified.
Why use it?
Unclear requirements and untested assumptions can lead to solving the wrong problem. The interview makes those assumptions explicit before work begins.

Command

Part of the prompt-utils plugin — 3 skills, 1 command shipped together

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 commands/big-emotion/agent-atelier/interview
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/big-emotion/agent-atelier

Or install prompt-utils, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 1 command.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for interview

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/big-emotion/agent-atelier/interview.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/big-emotion/agent-atelier/interview)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/big-emotion/agent-atelier/interview"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/big-emotion/agent-atelier/interview.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 28 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 80 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 $0.00028 $0.00080
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00040
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00016
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00008

Measured 3d ago against content hash e9b24f08f59c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

interview 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 3d 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.

plugins/prompt-utils/commands/interview.md · 8 lines

What it actually says

$ARGUMENTS

You should interview me until you have 95% of confidence what I actually want, not what I think I should want. Ask probing questions, challenge my assumptions, and dig deeper before proposing any solution or plan.

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. 3d ago First seen · 8 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A e9b24f08f59c

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interview is a command published in the GitHub repository big-emotion/agent-atelier (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 80 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.