problem-interview

problem-interview is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from guia-matthieu/clawfu-skills. It costs 93 tokens per session (4,813 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A customer interview guide for finding out whether a problem is real, painful, and important before building a solution.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for early customer research, testing product assumptions, choosing features, exploring new markets, or deciding whether a problem is worth solving.
Why use it?
It helps teams test their assumptions instead of asking people to react to an idea they may not need. This reduces the risk of building something nobody values.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it for early customer research, testing product assumptions, choosing features, exploring new markets, or deciding whether a problem is worth solving.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/guia-matthieu/clawfu-skills/problem-interview
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add guia-matthieu/clawfu-skills --skill problem-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 93 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,813 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 $0.00093 $0.04813
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.02406
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00963
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00481

Measured 9d ago against content hash 31ea5401342e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

problem-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 9d 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/validation/problem-interview/SKILL.md · 637 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 637 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Problem Interview

Validate that the problem you want to solve is real, painful, and worth solving before building anything. Master Cindy Alvarez's structured approach to problem discovery interviews.

When to Use This Skill

  • Before solution interviews to confirm the problem exists
  • Early customer discovery to understand the problem space
  • Pivoting to find new problems worth solving
  • Market expansion to understand problems in new segments
  • Feature prioritization to validate which problems matter most
  • Hypothesis testing to validate or invalidate problem assumptions

Methodology Foundation

Aspect Details
Source Cindy Alvarez - "Lean Customer Development" (2014)
Core Principle "Problem interviews help you understand the problem space before committing to a solution. You're not pitching—you're learning."
Why This Matters Most startups fail because they solve problems people don't care enough about. Problem interviews prevent building solutions to non-problems.

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. Structures problem exploration - Systematic approach to understanding pain points
  2. Identifies problem severity - Distinguishes "nice to have" from "must solve"
  3. Discovers existing solutions - Understands what people do today
  4. Validates problem frequency - How often does this problem occur?
  5. Finds problem context - When and where does the problem happen?
  6. Generates solution hints - What would ideal look like?

How to Use

Prepare Problem Interview Script

I want to validate this problem hypothesis: [problem statement]
Target customer: [who]
Create a problem interview script with open-ended questions.

Read the full file on GitHub · 637 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. 9d ago First seen · 637 lines · 93 tokens per session scan A 31ea5401342e

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problem-interview is a skill published in the GitHub repository guia-matthieu/clawfu-skills (149 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 93 tokens to every session and 4,813 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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