podcast-interview

podcast-interview is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from guia-matthieu/clawfu-skills. It costs 78 tokens per session (3,833 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for preparing and conducting podcast interviews using methods associated with NPR training and Tim Ferriss. It focuses on questions that encourage guests to share stories and detailed insights.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan an interview, design questions, prepare for a guest, improve follow-up prompts, or coach someone who conducts interviews.
Why use it?
It helps avoid generic answers and gives the interview a prepared direction while keeping the conversation natural. It also helps the host prepare before recording.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to plan an interview, design questions, prepare for a guest, improve follow-up prompts, or coach someone who conducts interviews.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/guia-matthieu/clawfu-skills/podcast-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 guia-matthieu/clawfu-skills --skill podcast-interview
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/guia-matthieu/clawfu-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,833 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 $0.00078 $0.03833
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.01917
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00767
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00383

Measured 12d ago against content hash 518e93e7d99f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

podcast-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 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.

skills/audio/podcast-interview/SKILL.md · 505 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 505 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Podcast Interview Mastery

Master the art of podcast interviewing using NPR training methodology and Tim Ferriss's preparation techniques to extract compelling stories and insights from any guest.

When to Use This Skill

  • Preparing for a podcast interview with a guest
  • Designing questions that elicit stories, not soundbites
  • Struggling to get guests to open up authentically
  • Planning a new interview-format podcast
  • Improving your interviewing technique
  • Coaching others on interview skills

Methodology Foundation

Source: NPR Training + Tim Ferriss (The Tim Ferriss Show, 700+ episodes)

Core Principle: Great interviews are 80% preparation and 20% presence. "The best interviews feel like conversations, but they're actually carefully orchestrated to extract specific moments of insight, emotion, and story." The interviewer's job is to be genuinely curious while guiding toward revelatory moments.

Why This Matters: Most podcast interviews are forgettable because hosts ask the same questions and accept surface-level answers. NPR-trained interviewers and Tim Ferriss have developed techniques that consistently produce the "good tape" that makes episodes shareable and memorable.

What Claude Does vs What You Decide

Claude Does You Decide
Structures production workflow Final creative direction
Suggests technical approaches Equipment and tool choices
Creates templates and checklists Quality standards
Identifies best practices Brand/voice decisions
Generates script outlines Final script approval

What This Skill Does

  1. Designs interview questions for story extraction - Questions that get narrative, not bullet points
  2. Prepares comprehensive guest research - Know enough to ask unexpected questions
  3. Creates psychological safety - Techniques for making guests vulnerable
  4. Navigates difficult moments - How to redirect, follow up, and challenge respectfully
  5. Identifies and pursues good tape - Recognizing when to dig deeper

Read the full file on GitHub · 505 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 · 505 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A 518e93e7d99f

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podcast-interview is a skill published in the GitHub repository guia-matthieu/clawfu-skills (149 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 3,833 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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