interview-synthesis

interview-synthesis is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from adamfaik/claude-code-pm-starter. It costs 44 tokens per session (427 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A process for turning user-interview transcripts or notes into a structured record of evidence, interpretations, contradictions, and follow-up questions. It keeps what a participant said separate from what the team thinks it means.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after one or more user interviews to record the participant, session goal, notable quotes, hypotheses, contradictions, and next questions.
Why use it?
It prevents guesses from being mixed with interview evidence and makes findings easier for the team to use later. Durable findings can be added to shared context files.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/adamfaik/claude-code-pm-starter/interview-synthesis
Any agent
npx skills add adamfaik/claude-code-pm-starter --skill interview-synthesis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/adamfaik/claude-code-pm-starter

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 427 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 $0.00044 $0.00427
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00214
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00085
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00043

Measured 5d ago against content hash 03b8c00819c0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

interview-synthesis 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 5d 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/skills/interview-synthesis/SKILL.md · 29 lines

What it actually says

Interview synthesis

Turn what a user said into something the team can act on, and file it where future sessions will find it.

Steps

  1. Take the raw material. A transcript, rough notes, or a voice-note dump. Ask for the interview goal and who the participant was (role, segment) if not stated.
  2. Separate observation from interpretation. First pass: what the participant actually said and did, with short verbatim quotes. Second pass: what you and the user think it means. Never blend the two; a quote is evidence, a reading is a hypothesis.
  3. Structure the synthesis:
    • Participant: role, segment, context, date.
    • Goal of the session.
    • What they said and did: the strongest verbatim moments, each with a one-line setup.
    • Readings: the hypotheses these moments support or weaken, stated as hypotheses.
    • Contradictions: where what they said conflicts with what they do, or with previous interviews.
    • Follow-ups: what to probe in the next session.
  4. File it. Save to operations/ with the date and participant slug in the filename, for example 2026-08-14-interview-nadia-churn.md.
  5. Promote what's durable. If a finding holds across several interviews, offer to update context/users.md (What we know) with a one-line digest pointing at the filed syntheses. Single-interview findings stay in operations/; patterns get promoted.

Rules

  • Quotes stay verbatim, including hesitations that carry meaning. Cleaning up a quote destroys the evidence.
  • Flag leading questions you notice in the transcript; the next interview gets better.
  • Never present one participant's view as "users want". One voice is a data point.
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. 5d ago First seen · 29 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 03b8c00819c0

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interview-synthesis is a skill published in the GitHub repository adamfaik/claude-code-pm-starter (10 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 427 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.

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