interview-prep

interview-prep is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jamditis/claude-skills-journalism. It costs 28 tokens per session (2,520 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to preparing interviews, researching sources, designing questions, handling logistics, and checking recording-consent laws.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare source research, recurring interview question frameworks, consent planning, and follow-up processes.
Why use it?
It reduces missed background checks, poorly focused questions, and legal or logistical mistakes before an interview.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the journalism-core plugin — 15 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to prepare source research, recurring interview question frameworks, consent planning, and follow-up processes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jamditis/claude-skills-journalism/interview-prep
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 jamditis/claude-skills-journalism --skill interview-prep
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jamditis/claude-skills-journalism

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install journalism-core, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,520 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 $0.00028 $0.02520
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.01260
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00504
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00252

Measured 9d ago against content hash d49b0545977e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

interview-prep 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.

journalism-core/skills/interview-prep/SKILL.md · 332 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 332 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Interview preparation

Interviews fail in the preparation, not the conversation. This skill covers pre-interview research, question design, logistics, and follow-up.

When to use

  • Preparing to interview a source
  • Developing question frameworks for recurring interview types
  • Managing interview logistics and consent
  • Planning follow-up after initial interviews
  • Training new reporters on interview technique

Pre-interview research checklist

Background research

## Source background check

### Public records
- [ ] Professional licenses verified
- [ ] Court records checked (civil/criminal)
- [ ] Business registrations confirmed
- [ ] Property records (if relevant)
- [ ] Campaign finance (if political figure)
- [ ] SEC filings (if corporate)

### Professional background
- [ ] LinkedIn profile reviewed
- [ ] Current employer confirmed
- [ ] Previous employers noted
- [ ] Published work reviewed
- [ ] Conference appearances checked
- [ ] Professional associations

### Social media audit
- [ ] All platforms identified (X, Bluesky, Threads, Mastodon, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok, YouTube, Substack, etc.)
- [ ] Post history reviewed
- [ ] Connections/followers analyzed
- [ ] Previous statements on topic found
- [ ] Any deleted content recovered? (See **web-archiving** skill for Wayback / Archive.today retrieval)

### Media appearances
- [ ] Previous interviews found
- [ ] Statements consistent with current position?
- [ ] Other journalists' assessments
- [ ] Any retractions or corrections involving them?

Context research

## Topic preparation

### Essential knowledge
- [ ] Key facts about the topic confirmed
- [ ] Timeline of events established
- [ ] Other stakeholders identified
- [ ] Conflicting accounts noted
- [ ] Documents/data reviewed

### What to know before you dial
- [ ] How do they fit into the story?
- [ ] What do I NEED from this interview?
- [ ] What might they be reluctant to discuss?
- [ ] What have they said publicly before?

Read the full file on GitHub · 332 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 332 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A d49b0545977e

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interview-prep is a skill published in the GitHub repository jamditis/claude-skills-journalism (389 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 2,520 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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