interview-me

interview-me is a skill for Claude Code from flonat/flonat-research. It costs 58 tokens per session (1,411 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured interview that asks questions one at a time to turn a person's tacit knowledge, requirements, or research idea into a clear specification.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explore a research topic, clarify requirements, record preferences, or make a decision explicit.
Why use it?
It captures information that is in the user's head but cannot be recovered from project files alone.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: $skill-name invocation.

Good fit Use it to explore a research topic, clarify requirements, record preferences, or make a decision explicit.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/flonat/flonat-research/interview-me
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 flonat/flonat-research --skill interview-me
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/flonat/flonat-research

Made for: Claude Code.

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.

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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.

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Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,411 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00058 $0.01411
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.00705
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00282
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00141

Measured 7d ago against content hash 1c962d78769c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

interview-me 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 7d 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/interview-me/SKILL.md · 157 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 157 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research Interview

Conduct a structured interview to help formalise a research idea into a concrete specification.

Input: $ARGUMENTS — a brief topic description or "start fresh" for open-ended exploration.


How This Works

This is a conversational skill. Instead of producing a report immediately, you conduct an interview by asking questions one at a time, probing deeper based on answers, and building toward a structured research specification.

Do NOT use the available structured-question mechanism. Ask questions directly in your text responses, one or two at a time. Wait for the user to respond before continuing.

Before starting, read .context/profile.md and .context/projects/_index.md to understand the researcher's areas and active projects. If the topic relates to an existing project, read its context file too.


Interview Structure

Phase 1: The Big Picture (1–2 questions)

  • "What phenomenon or puzzle are you trying to understand?"
  • "Why does this matter? Who should care about the answer?"

Phase 2: Theoretical Motivation (1–2 questions)

  • "What's your intuition for why X happens / what drives Y?"
  • "What would standard theory predict? Do you expect something different?"

Phase 3: Data and Setting (1–2 questions)

  • "What data do you have access to, or what data would you ideally want?"
  • "Is there a specific context, time period, or institutional setting you're focused on?"

Phase 4: Identification (1–2 questions)

  • "Is there a natural experiment, policy change, or source of variation you can exploit?"
  • "What's the biggest threat to a causal interpretation?"

Phase 5: Expected Results (1–2 questions)

  • "What would you expect to find? What would surprise you?"
  • "What would the results imply for policy or theory?"

Phase 6: Contribution (1 question)

  • "How does this differ from what's already been done? What's the gap you're filling?"

Adapting to the Research Area

the user's work spans multiple disciplines. Adapt the interview to the domain:

Read the full file on GitHub · 157 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. 7d ago First seen · 157 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A 1c962d78769c

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interview-me is a skill published in the GitHub repository flonat/flonat-research (133 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 1,411 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.

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