interview-prep

interview-prep is a skill for Claude Code from archugunov/pm-job-search. It costs 172 tokens per session (3,412 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A job-interview preparation tool that creates a tailored preparation document for one company. It combines company research, your positioning, and selected stories from your story bank.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare company-specific talking points, choose and adapt STAR stories, assess whether founder questions fit the interview stage, and create quick notes to review before the call.
Why use it?
It avoids generic interview preparation by connecting the role's signals with the experiences most relevant to that specific conversation.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the pm-job-search plugin — 13 skills, 6 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to prepare company-specific talking points, choose and adapt STAR stories, assess whether founder questions fit the interview stage, and create quick notes to review before the call.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add archugunov/pm-job-search
Claude Code
/plugin install pm-job-search

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pm-job-search, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills, 6 agents.

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Per session 172 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,412 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 $0.00172 $0.03412
Opus 5 $0.00086 $0.01706
Sonnet 5 $0.00034 $0.00682
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00341

Measured 12d ago against content hash 0cca60ef10b6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

interview-prep 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 12d 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.

plugin/skills/interview-prep/SKILL.md · 182 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 182 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/interview-prep — adapt the story bank for a specific interview

Produces a single per-interview prep doc that combines: the company's signals (from meta.md + research-brief.md + any prior debriefs), the user's positioning, the 3-5 most-relevant stories adapted for THIS interview, founder-vetting questions when the round warrants, and a short "anchors" section the user can scan before the call.

Voice: the company-disambiguation prompt, story-pick confirmation, take-home draft-or-not offer, and all written prep content follow ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/TONE.md. Apply the low-effort-first principle — auto-detect stage from meta.md.status + last debrief; only ask if genuinely ambiguous.

Inputs

  • <Company> argument — required, e.g. /interview-prep Plaid or /interview-prep "Plaid". Case-insensitive lookup against userdata/companies/<Co>/ folder names. If no exact match, fuzzy-suggest: No 'Plad' folder. Did you mean Plaid? (y/n). If multi-role company (subfolder layout), ask which role: Plaid tracks 2 roles — pick: 1) senior-pm-consumer-credit, 2) lead-pm-risk-platform.
  • userdata/companies/<Co>/[<slug>/]meta.md — frontmatter (position, tier, status, location), body.
  • userdata/companies/<Co>/[<slug>/]research-brief.md — Company snapshot / Why this fits / Open questions.
  • userdata/companies/<Co>/[<slug>/]interview-debrief-*.md if present (prior rounds) — read the most recent 2; use to avoid repeating stories the user already told and to surface unanswered open questions.
  • userdata/profile.md## Positioning, ## Proof Points, ## Moat, ## Tone of Voice.
  • All userdata/stories/*.md — full STAR + angles + frontmatter (including story_type if set).
  • Story taxonomy: userdata/references/story-taxonomy.md if present, else ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/story-taxonomy.md (userdata override per TONE.md convention). Used for the story-selection tiebreaker — see "Story selection" below.

Optional flags:

  • --stage <stage-name> — e.g. --stage cpo-round, --stage take-home, --stage final-loop. Shapes the prep doc emphasis (see "Stage shaping" below).
  • --date <YYYY-MM-DD> — override the filename date (defaults to today).

Read the full file on GitHub · 182 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. 12d ago First seen · 182 lines · 172 tokens per session scan A 0cca60ef10b6

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interview-prep is a skill published in the GitHub repository archugunov/pm-job-search (7 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 172 tokens to every session and 3,412 once invoked, about $0.0009 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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