interview

interview is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from boshu2/agentops. It costs 33 tokens per session (1,194 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A one-question-at-a-time interview workflow for deciding the outcome, proof, scope, authority, and priorities of a large piece of work before agents act alone. It records the caller's choices but creates no task or file.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to shape a large goal or research-and-planning task, look up relevant facts, present options and trade-offs, and turn each answer into an acceptance example.
Why use it?
It settles important decisions while the person requesting the work still has the most control, reducing unclear goals and later rework.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the agentops plugin — 25 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to shape a large goal or research-and-planning task, look up relevant facts, present options and trade-offs, and turn each answer into an acceptance example.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/boshu2/agentops/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.

Any agent
npx skills add boshu2/agentops --skill interview
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/boshu2/agentops

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install agentops, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 25 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for interview

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for interview

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,194 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 $0.00033 $0.01194
Opus 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00478
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00239
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00119

Measured 10d ago against content hash a1dee5ce6dd5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 10d 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/SKILL.md · 115 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 115 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Interview

Shape a big outcome with the caller, one question per turn, before agents run alone. You look up facts; the caller makes choices. Why: answering shapes the caller's thinking, and control is highest before launch. Interview creates nothing new (no goal, bead or file) and changes no status, claim or closure; within authority it only appends settled notes to an existing intent source (see Show the state).

Each turn

  1. Look it up in the tracker, docs and code first. Ask only for choices: outcome, proof, non-goals, authority, budgets, priorities, risk tolerance.
  2. Pick the branch. Start with the outcome, then the open branch that most changes acceptance, scope or authority. Defer any that change no decision.
  3. Ask one question in this shape, so the caller can accept, amend or reject in one line. Wait for the answer.
  4. Record only what the caller decides. A skip stays open; "your call" accepts the recommendation shown. A revision reopens dependent answers.
Q<n>: <the decision>. <the question, with 2 to 4 options when they exist>
My recommendation: <answer>, because <source or reason>.
Tradeoff: <the one cost that matters>

Answerer

The caller answers by default. On request ("let a council answer my interview"), a council answers through Council's interview-panel mode; the caller accepts or amends its answers in one pass before anything is recorded, and authority, budgets and acceptance changes stay the caller's.

BDD: acceptance as examples

Drive each criterion to a Given/When/Then with an observable result and its proving evidence. Draft the example yourself as the recommendation; the caller accepts or edits it. "Works reliably" is not acceptance; ask what would be seen.

Given a Job has already completed
When the worker receives that Job again
Then it returns the completed result without a second side effect
# Proof: a redelivery test asserts one side effect and the completed result

Read the full file on GitHub · 115 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 10d ago Changed · +4 lines · -10 tokens per session a1dee5ce6dd5
  2. 12d ago Changed · +20 lines 21157a7c11ca
  3. 20d ago Changed · -12 lines d1b6450fdeac
  4. 21d ago First seen · 103 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A baa1e9de147e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

interview is a skill published in the GitHub repository boshu2/agentops (448 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 1,194 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-25.

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