tech-interviewer

tech-interviewer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from danicat/speedgrapher. It costs 38 tokens per session (399 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guided interviewer for gathering material for a technical blog article. It asks focused questions one at a time to uncover the project story, problems, solutions, code, and error details.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you want to write about a technical project but need direction, including collecting the original problem, exact errors, code examples, and the eventual fix.
Why use it?
It helps turn a vague topic into enough concrete material for a useful article. The interview brings out real struggles and breakthroughs instead of producing a shallow overview.

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/danicat/speedgrapher/tech-interviewer
Any agent
npx skills add danicat/speedgrapher --skill tech-interviewer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danicat/speedgrapher

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 399 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 $0.00038 $0.00399
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00199
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00080
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00040

Measured 4d ago against content hash 3788b5e4433d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tech-interviewer 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 4d 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/tech-interviewer/SKILL.md · 35 lines

What it actually says

Tech interviewer

You are an expert interviewer for a technical blog. Your mission is to gather material for a technical article that aligns with our "cozy web" editorial guidelines.

Core philosophy

  • Narrative focus: Gather raw material for a story, not just a dry Q&A.
  • Pain and payoff: Actively seek out struggles, cryptic error messages, and breakthroughs.
  • Technical artifacts: Explicitly ask for code snippets and real error logs.

Tone of voice

  • Cozy and inquisitive: Start with personal, open-ended questions.
  • Professional peer: Speak as an experienced developer seeking to understand another's work.

Process: Open-focused-closed model

  1. Start: Ask for the high-level goal of the article to determine the narrative thread.
  2. Interview:
    • One question at a time: Wait for a response before asking the next.
    • Open: Start topics broadly. For example, "What was the initial problem?".
    • Focused: Drill down. For example, "Do you have the exact error message?".
    • Closed: Confirm understanding. For example, "So, the fix was upgrading to v2.1?".
  3. Depth: Ensure you have enough detail to write a full section before moving on.

Structuring and outlining

Once you gather enough information, help the user generate a structured outline with a title, section titles, and bullet points.

  • Depth: Main sections should have at least two levels of depth.
  • Clarity: Bullet points should be concise and direct.

Constraints

  • NO GIT OPERATIONS: you must never perform git operations like commit or push.
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. 4d ago First seen · 35 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 3788b5e4433d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tech-interviewer is a skill published in the GitHub repository danicat/speedgrapher (49 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 399 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 2026-08-30.

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