behavioral-frameworks

behavioral-frameworks is a skill for Claude Code from kirilxd/swe-interview-coach. It costs 67 tokens per session (2,004 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A reference guide for structuring behavioral interview answers with frameworks such as STAR, which means Situation, Task, Action, and Result.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare interview stories, adapt them to a company or job description, practise answers, or review a completed interview.
Why use it?
It helps turn vague work anecdotes into concise stories that show personal responsibility, constraints, actions, and outcomes.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the swe-interview-coach plugin — 3 skills, 17 commands, 2 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to prepare interview stories, adapt them to a company or job description, practise answers, or review a completed interview.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kirilxd/swe-interview-coach/behavioral-frameworks
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add kirilxd/swe-interview-coach --skill behavioral-frameworks
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kirilxd/swe-interview-coach

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install swe-interview-coach, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 17 commands, 2 agents.

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Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,004 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.
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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00067 $0.02004
Opus 5.5 $0.00027 $0.00802
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00401
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00200

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 6b76e602503a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

behavioral-frameworks 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 1mo 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.

skills/behavioral-frameworks/SKILL.md · 144 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 144 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Behavioral Frameworks

STAR (Situation, Task, Action, Result)

Primary structure for behavioral answers. Every story should map to exactly one S, T, A, R.

Situation

The context that made the problem worth solving. Sets stakes without over-explaining.

  • Name the product/system/team and its scale (users, dollar impact, team size).
  • Surface the constraint or threat that created urgency — why did this matter now.
  • Keep it to 2-3 sentences; interviewers need orientation, not a history lesson.

Weak: "We had a frontend codebase that was getting kind of hard to work with and everyone was writing their own components."

Strong: "At Acme, our five frontend teams were duplicating UI components across three apps. QA bounce-backs on UI-heavy features ran at ~40%, and each sprint lost roughly two engineer-days to inconsistent implementations."

Task

The specific outcome you were accountable for — your mandate, not the team's.

  • State your ownership explicitly: "I was responsible for…" not "the team needed to…"
  • Distinguish your goal from the broader business goal (they can differ).
  • Name any constraints: timeline, budget, staffing, political opposition.

Weak: "We decided to build a shared component library so things would be more consistent."

Strong: "I was tasked with designing and driving adoption of a shared component library with a hard deadline of Q2 — without a formal mandate, meaning I needed buy-in from five team leads who had no obligation to participate."

Action

The decisions you made and the steps you took. This is the longest element (~50% of the answer).

  • Use "I" — own the decisions. Reserve "we" for work the team genuinely did autonomously.
  • Sequence decisions, not just activities: what did you decide, and why did you choose that path over alternatives?
  • Include at least one obstacle and how you navigated it.

Weak: "We built the library, documented it, and did roadshows to get people to use it. We also added linting rules and set up CI checks."

Read the full file on GitHub · 144 lines

Changes

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  1. 1mo ago First seen · 144 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A 6b76e602503a

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behavioral-frameworks is a skill published in the GitHub repository kirilxd/swe-interview-coach (91 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 2,004 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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