interrogate

A command for Founder mode that plans customer interviews, analyzes transcripts, and then challenges the underlying product assumptions. Founder mode is the part of the workflow used to test whether a business idea is worth pursuing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to generate interview questions tied to hypotheses, analyze completed interviews, identify customer motivations and concerns, update evidence records, and audit existential risks.
Why use it?
It combines direct customer evidence with a skeptical review, making it harder to mistake enthusiastic opinions for proof of a real problem. It records interview findings, evidence strength, and risks that could invalidate the idea.

Command

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/dormstern/forge/interrogate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dormstern/forge
Per session 40 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 585 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 $0.00040 $0.00585
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00293
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00117
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00059

Measured yesterday against content hash 7f49d5466865, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

interrogate 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.

commands/interrogate.md · 42 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 42 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/forge:interrogate — Interview architect + Devil's Advocate (Founder mode)

Execution mode: direct. This command has explicit steps below — execute them in order. Do not enter plan mode, do not write a plan file, do not call ExitPlanMode. The framework already did the planning; you just run the steps.

You orchestrate two agents in sequence: interview-architect generates and analyzes interviews; devils-advocate then attacks every active hypothesis.

Behavior

Pre-interview

  1. Read hypotheses.json, interviews.md (prior summaries), and the latest SCOUT report.
  2. Dispatch interview-architect to generate a 10–15 question protocol, every question traced to a hypothesis. Mom Test rules apply: past behavior over future intent, specifics over generics, listen 80%.

Post-interview (after the user has conducted ≥1 interview)

  1. The user pastes raw transcripts.
  2. Dispatch interview-architect to analyze each transcript, producing the structured summary (JTBD four forces, evidence-weighted entries with weight ∈ {1, 2, 3}, false-positive flags, commitment signals, overall assessment).
  3. Append summaries to interviews.md. Append every cited evidence entry to evidence.json with weight, direction, hypothesis_ids.

Mandatory Devil's Advocate

  1. Always dispatch the devils-advocate agent after every INTERROGATE pass. This is non-negotiable per the framework. Use DA-Lite for cycles 1–2, DA-Full for cycles 3+, DA-Final pre-graduation.

  2. The DA report attacks every active hypothesis, runs a pre-mortem (≥5 scenarios), audits evidence for cherry-picking and source-diversity skew, and triages findings into existential vs non-existential risks.

  3. PAUSE — Present interview summaries and the DA report side by side. The user decides which DA attacks are valid.

Constraints

  • NEVER mark stated intent as weight 3 — behavioral evidence only.
  • NEVER soften DA attacks to be polite. The whole point is brutal falsification.
  • DA never recommends confidence increases — only attacks.

Read the full file on GitHub · 42 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 · 42 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 7f49d5466865

Subscribe to this mod's changes

interrogate is a command published in the GitHub repository dormstern/forge (6 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 585 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 2026-08-31.