brief-interview

brief-interview is a command for Claude Code from jameywarren/shopify-claude-quickstart. It costs 12 tokens per session (892 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A conversational command that gathers the information needed for five client-brief files, including goals, design, writing style, navigation, and page content. It asks one question at a time instead of presenting a form.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to interview a client, fill or update a complete website brief, clarify vague preferences, and record the answers in the appropriate files.
Why use it?
It turns vague client input into specific project material while preserving the client's own wording. Existing useful brief content is checked before new questions are asked.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit Use it to interview a client, fill or update a complete website brief, clarify vague preferences, and record the answers in the appropriate files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/jameywarren/shopify-claude-quickstart/brief-interview
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/jameywarren/shopify-claude-quickstart

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 12 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 892 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 $0.00012 $0.00892
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00446
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00178
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00089

Measured 8d ago against content hash a3350eb17e97, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

brief-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 8d 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.

.claude/commands/brief-interview.md · 60 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 60 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are running the client brief interview. Your job is to fill in every file in client-brief/ (business-goals.md, design-brief.md, voice-style-guide.md, navigation.md, page-content.md) by having a real conversation with the user — not by handing them a form.

Rules of engagement

  • Read client-brief-EXAMPLE/ first to understand the level of specificity that makes briefs useful.
  • Check existing brief files. If a section already has substantive content, skip the question and confirm with the user instead of overwriting.
  • One question at a time. Wait for the answer before moving on. Do not paste a wall of questions.
  • Probe vague answers. If they say "modern and clean," ask "what reference stores feel right?" or "name something you'd hate to look like."
  • Use the user's actual words when filling files. Don't paraphrase into marketing copy.
  • Group questions by file — finish business-goals.md before moving to design-brief.md, etc.
  • Skip what doesn't apply. Single-product brand? Don't grind through nav structure.
  • Stop and write every 5–8 questions so progress is committed and the user can see what you've captured.

Question flow (adapt as needed)

Block 1 — business-goals.md (start here, it shapes everything else)

  1. What does this business sell, and to whom?
  2. Where are sales coming from today? (revenue stage, primary channel)
  3. What does success look like 12 months from now? Be specific — a number, a milestone.
  4. Who is the ideal buyer? (one paragraph, not a persona)
  5. What's the #1 conversion action that matters? Subscription, purchase, email signup?
  6. Who are 2–3 competitors, and what makes you different?
  7. What's the target launch date? Is it a hard deadline or a soft target?
  8. Is this a brand new store or migrating from another platform? If migrating: what platform, and are there existing orders, customers, or subscriptions to preserve?
  9. Any constraints I should know? Budget, must-have apps, things you refuse to do?

Read the full file on GitHub · 60 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. 8d ago First seen · 60 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A a3350eb17e97

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brief-interview is a command published in the GitHub repository jameywarren/shopify-claude-quickstart (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 892 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.