deep-interview

deep-interview is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from kirti12025/gitlab-mcp. It costs 57 tokens per session (713 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of deep-interview, MIT.

A question-led process for turning a vague request into a precise specification. It repeatedly asks targeted questions and checks how much uncertainty remains.

In plain words
What is it for?
Clarifying broad ideas, gathering requirements for complex work, and preparing a well-defined task for later planning and execution.
Why use it?
It helps expose missing requirements and hidden assumptions before implementation begins.

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/kirti12025/gitlab-mcp/deep-interview
Any agent
npx skills add kirti12025/gitlab-mcp --skill deep-interview
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kirti12025/gitlab-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 713 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00057 $0.00713
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00357
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00143
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00071

Measured 5d ago against content hash 16daa80ebb49, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, 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 5d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to deep-interview — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.github/skills/deep-interview/SKILL.md · 76 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 76 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

Phases

Phase 1: Initialize

  1. Parse the user's idea
  2. Detect brownfield vs greenfield (use @explore to check codebase)
  3. For brownfield: map relevant codebase areas
  4. Initialize ambiguity score at 100%

Phase 2: Interview Loop

Repeat until ambiguity <= 20% or user exits early:

  1. Generate question targeting the WEAKEST clarity dimension
  2. Ask ONE question at a time with current ambiguity context
  3. Score ambiguity across dimensions:
    • Goal Clarity (40% weight for greenfield, 35% brownfield)
    • Constraint Clarity (30% / 25%)
    • Success Criteria (30% / 25%)
    • Context Clarity (N/A / 15% for brownfield)
  4. Report progress with dimension scores and gaps
  5. Track ontology (key entities, stability ratio)

Phase 3: Challenge Agents

  • Round 4+: Contrarian - challenge core assumptions
  • Round 6+: Simplifier - probe for complexity removal
  • Round 8+: Ontologist - find the essence (if ambiguity > 30%)

Phase 4: Crystallize Spec

When ambiguity <= threshold, generate spec to .omc/specs/deep-interview-{slug}.md:

  • Goal, Constraints, Non-Goals, Acceptance Criteria
  • Assumptions Exposed & Resolved
  • Ontology (Key Entities) with convergence tracking
  • Interview Transcript

Phase 5: Execution Bridge

Present options:

  1. Ralplan → OMG Autopilot (Recommended): consensus-refine then execute
  2. Execute with omg-autopilot (skip ralplan)
  3. Execute with ralph: persistence loop
  4. Execute with team: parallel agents
  5. Refine further: continue interviewing

Read the full file on GitHub · 76 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. 5d ago First seen · 76 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A 16daa80ebb49

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deep-interview is a skill published in the GitHub repository kirti12025/gitlab-mcp (0 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 713 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to deep-interview, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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