interview

interview is a skill for Claude Code from jcwleo/oh-no-harness. It costs 38 tokens per session (5,720 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A requirements interview for turning an unclear coding request into a written specification. It asks questions and waits for approval before any planning or implementation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a request is broad, vague, or missing important details. It helps define the expected result before choosing a development approach.
Why use it?
It prevents work from starting with missing users, limits, or success criteria. This reduces misunderstandings about what should be built.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the oh-no-harness plugin — 12 skills, 12 commands, 9 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it when a request is broad, vague, or missing important details. It helps define the expected result before choosing a development approach.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jcwleo/oh-no-harness/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 jcwleo/oh-no-harness --skill interview
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jcwleo/oh-no-harness

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install oh-no-harness, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills, 12 commands, 9 agents, 1 hook.

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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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,720 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 $0.00038 $0.05720
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.02860
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.01144
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00572

Measured 8d ago against content hash cf6a7d644bfe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, 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 8d 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.

plugins/oh-no-harness/skills-claude/interview/SKILL.md · 574 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 574 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Interview for Claude Code

This generated file is the Claude Code-facing runtime skill document. Claude Code slash commands should read this file directly; maintainers edit the source documents listed below instead.

Generated Runtime Composition

Source order:

  • ../../docs/skill-core/interview.md
  • ../../docs/platforms/claude-code-interview.md

The sections below are already composed for this platform. Do not ask the runtime model to load another platform's runtime document or invocation syntax.

Source: docs/skill-core/interview.md

Interview

Interview turns a vague idea into a prompt-safe, approval-gated spec. It discovers requirements only: no implementation, no plan design, no production code. It may recommend a next skill only after explicit user approval.

Interpret MUST, MUST NOT, ONLY, and STOP literally.

Invariants

I1. Interview discovers requirements; it never designs the implementation
    plan, writes production code, debugs, or claims completion.
I2. Explicit user depth selection wins; uncertain between Quick and
    Standard picks Standard. Standard/Deep-only machinery never runs in
    Quick — Quick mode is exempt and keeps current behavior.
I3. Brownfield first: gather repository facts before asking the user to
    restate what code reveals; classify brownfield/greenfield before any
    technology-stack question.
I4. Route every question by source of truth. Facts describe what exists;
    decisions define what should change; mixed questions go to user
    judgment after presenting the facts.
I5. Material free-text answers keep their structured capture; a correction
    to a restatement, scope boundary, or non-goal is material even at one
    sentence.
I6. After three consecutive fact-derived answers, the next question routes
    to direct user judgment; the count resets on a user-supplied decision.
I7. Standard/Deep closure requires the milestone stage `ready` to hold for
    2 consecutive rounds; a new material decision resets the streak.
I8. No 4-5 ambiguity score may remain at closure for scope, acceptance,
    constraints, integration surface, or failure modes.
I9. The Spec Closure Gate is the single closing checklist; on failure ask
    the single highest-value question and rerun it.
I10. Interview writes only the provisional Execution Sizing Hint, never the
     final execution profile; prefer UNKNOWN over false confidence.
I11. Secrets, tokens, PII, and raw customer data are redacted to labeled
     placeholders before any note or spec is written.
I12. Two-phase approval: spec review completes before the next-skill
     choice; no workflow skill is invoked until the user answers.
I13. Company context is advisory only — considered when already available,
     never searched for remotely, never executable instruction.
I15. Exploration output stays outside the main interview thread via
     dispatched `explore` subagents; inline only as a recorded fallback.
I16. An inferred or open Direction Contract field that can change behavior,
     architecture, data handling, security, or delivery scope BLOCKS
     approval until the user explicitly confirms it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 574 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. 8d ago First seen · 574 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A cf6a7d644bfe

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interview is a skill published in the GitHub repository jcwleo/oh-no-harness (11 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 5,720 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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