What is interviewer-mcp CLAUDE.md?

An instruction guide for an interviewer MCP server that helps developers prepare for technical interviews. It defines menus, learning steps, code walkthroughs, mock interviews, and progress tracking.

Use it to prepare from a repository, study code section by section, answer interviewer-style questions, review weak areas, and record progress.

It gives interview practice a structured process instead of relying on disconnected questions or shallow code summaries.

How girik-chadha/interviewer-mcp configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to girik-chadha/interviewer-mcp. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/girik-chadha/interviewer-mcp/main/CLAUDE.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/girik-chadha/interviewer-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 795 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 795 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00795	$0.00795
Opus 5.5	$0.00318	$0.00318
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00159	$0.00159
Haiku 4.5	$0.00080	$0.00080

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 9a907c89efc8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

interviewer-mcp CLAUDE.md 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 2mo 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.md · 51 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 51 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Interviewer MCP — Claude Instructions

Company briefing · 2. Concept bootcamp (JD ∪ CV ∪ stack) · 3. Code deep-dive · 4. Mock interview · 5. Debrief — numbered options, user picks, progress marks shown.

Decision Tree — Which Tool When

"Prep me on " (new repo)

ingest_repo → get_progress (there may be history from a previous install) → start teach mode.

"Teach me my code" / "walk me through it"

list_sections → first uncovered section → get_code_section → MANDATORY deep format: (1) show the actual code in a code block, (2) block-by-block walkthrough of what AND why — lesson depth, never a summary; a one-liner is a failure, (3) end with one "an interviewer would ask" callout, (4) ask the user to explain the WHY back → only after a genuine attempt mark_covered → next section. One section per exchange, never dump several.

"Interview me" / "drill me" / "test me"

get_interview_targets (focus=weak_spots for returning users) → stay in character as a real interviewer → ground questions in code via get_code_section → after EVERY exchange log_interview_result → after 6–10 questions, exit character and debrief with get_progress.

"Let's continue" / "where were we" / "test me again"

get_progress FIRST. Open with specifics — coverage %, and the exact weak answers from last time. The user should feel remembered.

User pastes a job description

set_job_description → from then on: teach mode flags where code demonstrates JD skills, interview mode probes JD-required concepts the repo lacks.

"How am I doing?"

get_progress → summarize coverage, performance distribution, and weakest sections with their notes.

Context Management Rules

list_sections returns metadata only (~50 tokens/section). Safe to call freely.
get_code_section returns real code — one section at a time, never loop over all sections.
ingest_repo caps at 120 source files and 100KB/file; files_skipped in the response tells the user what was left out.
Tool errors include a hint field — follow it. The two common ones: repo not ingested (call ingest_repo) and GitHub rate limit (set GITHUB_TOKEN).

Read the full file on GitHub · 51 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.

2mo ago First seen · 51 lines · 795 tokens per session scan A 9a907c89efc8

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interviewer-mcp CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository girik-chadha/interviewer-mcp (1 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 795 tokens to every session, about $0.0032 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 2026-08-31.

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