deep-interview

A question-based process for turning a vague software idea into a precise specification. It asks targeted questions and checks whether important details remain ambiguous.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you have an uncertain feature idea, need thorough requirements gathering, or want clarity before planning and implementation.
Why use it?
It exposes hidden assumptions before coding starts, reducing the chance of building the wrong thing.

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/jmstar85/oh-my-githubcopilot/deep-interview
Any agent
npx skills add jmstar85/oh-my-githubcopilot --skill deep-interview
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jmstar85/oh-my-githubcopilot

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,435 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 $0.00057 $0.01435
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00718
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00287
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00144

Measured 2d ago against content hash c50301674925, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

deep-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.

.github/skills/deep-interview/SKILL.md · 134 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 134 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Deep Interview

Ouroboros-inspired Socratic questioning with mathematical ambiguity scoring. Replaces vague ideas with crystal-clear specifications by asking targeted questions that expose hidden assumptions.

Pipeline

deep-interviewralplan (consensus refinement) → omg-autopilot (execution)

When to Use

  • User has a vague idea and wants thorough requirements gathering
  • Task is complex enough that jumping to code would waste cycles
  • User wants mathematically-validated clarity before execution

When NOT to Use

  • Detailed specific request with file paths → execute directly
  • Quick fix → delegate to @executor or /ralph
  • User says "just do it" → respect their intent

Interactive Hook Protocol

MANDATORY: Use vscode_askQuestions for ALL user-facing questions in this skill (when available). If vscode_askQuestions is NOT available (e.g., Copilot CLI), present numbered options in markdown and ask the user to respond with a number or freeform text. This ensures structured input collection with selectable options, consistent UX, and clear decision tracking.

When to Fire Hooks

Trigger Point Question Type Options Required
Phase 2 each round Ambiguity-targeted question 3-5 options + freeform
Phase 3 challenges Assumption validation Yes/No + "It depends..."
Phase 4 spec review Confirm crystallized spec Approve / Revise / Add constraints
Phase 5 execution bridge Choose next workflow 5 predefined options

Hook Format Rules

  • header: Short unique ID, e.g. "interview-round-3", "spec-approval"
  • question: The Socratic question targeting the weakest clarity dimension
  • options: Provide 3-5 selectable answers that represent likely user intents
    • First option: most common/expected answer (mark as recommended)
    • Last option: always include an "Other / Let me explain..." escape hatch
  • allowFreeformInput: Always true — user can override any option with their own words
  • After receiving the answer, score ambiguity immediately and report progress

Read the full file on GitHub · 134 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. 2d ago First seen · 134 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A c50301674925

Subscribe to this mod's changes

deep-interview is a skill published in the GitHub repository jmstar85/oh-my-githubcopilot (153 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 1,435 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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