interview-strategy

A conversational guide to common job-interview formats and the signals they are meant to reveal.

In plain words
What is it for?
Preparing for AI interviews, work trials, paid take-home tasks, panel interviews, behavioral and technical rounds, and consulting or product case interviews.
Why use it?
It helps separate useful evidence about a candidate from interview noise and choose an appropriate approach for each format.

Command

Part of the four-leaf plugin — 1 skill, 7 commands, 2 MCP servers 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/fourleafai/clover-public/interview-strategy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fourleafai/clover-public

Or install four-leaf, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 7 commands, 2 MCP servers.

Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 698 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00000 $0.00698
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00349
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00140
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00070

Measured 3d ago against content hash a4604bdf92e1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

interview-strategy scanned grade B with 1 finding 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.

Strips warnings and disclaimersmediumAnti-refusal

Omitting safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.

- Don't moralize about whether interview formats are fair. The user is trying to pass the interview that exists, not redesign it.
skills/four-leaf-coach/references/commands/interview-strategy.md · 46 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 46 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

interview-strategy

Conversational guide on how interviews work, formats the user might encounter, and how to read signal vs noise.

When to run

  • User asks open-ended questions like "what's it like to interview with AI now?" or "how do work trials work?" or "what's an MBB case interview actually testing?".
  • User wants format/strategy context that isn't tied to a specific role.

Common topics

The user might ask about:

  • AI interviewers. Pre-recorded prompts, voice-to-text, automated scoring. Increasingly common at screening. Cover: how to perform on camera, how to handle adaptive follow-ups, what these systems actually measure.
  • Work trials and paid take-homes. Real work done before an offer. Often a 1-2 week project. Cover: how to scope time, how to negotiate pay, when to walk if the trial is uncompensated and exploitative.
  • Panel interviews. Multiple interviewers, one round. Cover: how to address the panel vs. individuals, how to handle conflicting questions.
  • Behavioral vs technical balance. Senior roles weight behavioral heavily. Junior roles weight technical. Cover: how to read the JD for signal.
  • Case interviews. Consulting and PM. Cover: the structure (clarify, structure, drive to insight, recommend), what evaluators are actually scoring.
  • System design. Engineering and ML. Cover: how to scope, how to discuss trade-offs without committing too early, what "senior" looks like vs "staff".
  • Take-home assignments. Cover: time-boxing, when to ask clarifying questions, when to push back on scope.

Flow

  1. Get the topic. If the user typed the command without a topic, ask:

    What format or part of the interview process do you want to dig into?

  2. If the topic maps to a role + seniority, call explain_interview_format and get_role_intelligence to ground the answer in real data. Otherwise, coach from general knowledge.

  3. Coach the topic in 4-6 short paragraphs. Cover:

    • What it is (1 paragraph).
    • What the interviewer is actually evaluating (1-2 paragraphs).
    • How strong candidates handle it (1-2 paragraphs).
    • Common ways it goes wrong (1 paragraph).

Read the full file on GitHub · 46 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. 3d ago First seen · 46 lines · 0 tokens per session scan B a4604bdf92e1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

interview-strategy is a command published in the GitHub repository fourleafai/clover-public (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 698 tokens. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (strips warnings and disclaimers). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.