mock-interview-coach

mock-interview-coach is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from art2url/career-agent-skills. It costs 34 tokens per session (898 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An interview-practice coach that helps turn your experience into STAR stories, where STAR means Situation, Task, Action, and Result.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to practise behavioural questions, write an introduction, prepare references, and develop answers from a job description.
Why use it?
It gives structure to answers that might otherwise be vague or difficult to rehearse.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to practise behavioural questions, write an introduction, prepare references, and develop answers from a job description.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/art2url/career-agent-skills/mock-interview-coach
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add art2url/career-agent-skills --skill mock-interview-coach
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/art2url/career-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 898 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 $0.00034 $0.00898
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00449
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00180
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00090

Measured 11d ago against content hash 75c421bd94f5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mock-interview-coach 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 11d 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.

skills/mock-interview-coach/SKILL.md · 106 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 106 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Mock Interview Coach

Trigger

Use when the user wants to practice for an interview, build STAR stories, rehearse answers, or prepare references.

Keywords: "mock interview", "practice interview", "interview coach", "interview prep", "STAR stories", "STAR method", "behavioral questions", "behavioral interview", "prepare for interview", "interview questions", "tell me about yourself", "references", "reference list", "interview answers", "interview coaching", "questions to ask interviewer", "how to answer interview questions"

Process

Step 1: Analyze the Role

From the job description, identify:

  • Competencies they'll test — leadership, problem-solving, collaboration, technical depth
  • Likely question themes — based on responsibilities and requirements
  • Company-specific topics — recent news, products, culture to reference

Step 2: Build STAR Story Bank

Convert resume bullets into full stories:

  • Situation (1-2 sentences): Context and challenge
  • Task (1 sentence): Your specific responsibility
  • Action (2-3 sentences): What YOU did — not the team
  • Result (1-2 sentences): Quantified outcome + business impact

Prepare two versions per story:

  • Full: ~2 minutes (for "tell me about a time...")
  • Short: ~60 seconds (for follow-ups)

Cover these competency areas:

  • Leadership / managing conflict
  • Problem-solving / overcoming obstacles
  • Collaboration / cross-functional work
  • Achievement / exceeding expectations
  • Failure / learning from mistakes (must be a real failure, not a humble brag)

Step 3: Prepare Standard Answers

  • "Tell me about yourself" — 2-min pitch: current role → key achievement → why this role
  • "Why this company?" — reference something specific about them
  • "Why are you leaving?" — forward-looking, growth-focused, never negative
  • "Greatest weakness?" — real weakness + self-awareness + improvement steps
  • "Salary expectations?" — deflect first ("what's the budgeted range?"), give researched range if pressed

Read the full file on GitHub · 106 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. 11d ago First seen · 106 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 75c421bd94f5

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mock-interview-coach is a skill published in the GitHub repository art2url/career-agent-skills (8 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 898 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.