interview

A structured interview asks one focused question at a time to discover missing product or implementation decisions.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps clarify requirements, offer concrete options, remember answers, and produce a short project brief or specification.
Why use it?
It prevents guesses and avoids lengthy question lists when an important choice cannot be found in the project or tools.

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/hmbown/codewhale/interview
Any agent
npx skills add Hmbown/CodeWhale --skill interview
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Hmbown/CodeWhale

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 187 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 $0.00040 $0.00187
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00093
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00037
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00019

Measured 2d ago against content hash 273bc3906c6b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 2d 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.

crates/tui/assets/skills/interview/SKILL.md · 25 lines

What it actually says

Interview

When to use

Use when the request lacks a material product or implementation choice that cannot be discovered from the workspace or tools.

Non-goals

  • Do not interview for facts you can read, search, or measure.
  • Do not ask multi-question dumps. One focused question at a time.
  • Do not invent requirements.

Workflow

  1. State the missing decision and why it blocks progress.
  2. Offer concrete options when possible.
  3. Record the answer and continue the work.
  4. Produce a short brief/spec only when enough answers exist.

Failure mode

If the user declines to answer, proceed with explicit assumptions and label them.

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. 2d ago First seen · 25 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 273bc3906c6b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

interview is a skill published in the GitHub repository Hmbown/CodeWhale (40,889 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 187 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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