interview

interview is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from kazdenc/builder-skills. It costs 55 tokens per session (1,071 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A user-research helper for creating interview scripts and finding useful patterns in interview transcripts. It focuses on learning what people need through open-ended conversations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to write interview guides, prepare research questions, analyze interview transcripts, and identify actionable product insights.
Why use it?
It removes the guesswork from planning interviews and turning notes or transcripts into clear findings. It helps teams separate evidence from assumptions about users.

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/kazdenc/builder-skills/interview
Any agent
npx skills add kazdenc/builder-skills --skill interview
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kazdenc/builder-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,071 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 $0.00055 $0.01071
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00535
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00214
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00107

Measured 4d ago against content hash d53c9593d75f, 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 4d 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.

.claude/skills/product/discover/interview/SKILL.md · 102 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 102 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

User Interviews

This skill operates in two modes. Pick the one that matches what you have.

  • GENERATE — You have a topic or feature area. You need an interview script.
  • ANALYZE — You have a transcript (or notes). You need structured insights.

GENERATE Mode — Build an Interview Script

Structure every interview in three acts:

┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  1. WARM-UP (5 min)                     │  Build rapport, set context
│  2. CORE QUESTIONS (30–40 min)          │  Explore the job, past behavior
│  3. WRAP-UP (5 min)                     │  Open floor, next steps
└─────────────────────────────────────────┘

Warm-Up

Set the participant at ease. Explain there are no wrong answers, you're learning from them, and they can skip anything. Ask one or two easy background questions to get them talking.

Core Questions

Use these question types, in roughly this order:

Type Purpose Starter
Context Understand their world "Walk me through a typical day when you..."
Behavioral Surface real past actions "Tell me about the last time you..."
JTBD Uncover the job and switching triggers "What were you trying to accomplish when you decided to..."
Process Map their current workflow "What happened next? And after that?"
Emotional Find pain and delight "How did that make you feel? What was the hardest part?"
Magnitude Gauge importance "How big a deal is that for you? What's at stake?"

Follow every answer with "Why?" or "Can you tell me more about that?" until you reach concrete specifics.

Wrap-Up

Ask "Is there anything I should have asked but didn't?" — this regularly surfaces the most valuable insight of the session. Thank them and explain what happens next.

Good vs Bad Questions

Bad (avoid) Why it fails Good (use instead)
"Would you use a feature that does X?" Hypothetical — people can't predict future behavior "Tell me about the last time you needed to do X."
"Don't you think this is frustrating?" Leading — suggests the answer "How do you feel about that part of the process?"
"Do you like A or B better?" Binary — closes exploration "What matters most to you when you're doing this?"
"How often would you use this?" Speculative frequency "How often did you do this in the past month?"
"Users like you typically want..." Primes agreement "What do you wish were different?"

Read the full file on GitHub · 102 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. 4d ago First seen · 102 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A d53c9593d75f

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interview is a skill published in the GitHub repository kazdenc/builder-skills (44 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 1,071 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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