interview

A guided interview for exploring a specification document, which describes what a product or feature must do. It asks one focused question at a time to uncover missing requirements and decisions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to brainstorm or review a product requirements document, technical specification, or similar plan through structured questions.
Why use it?
It helps reveal edge cases, technical constraints, user needs, and success measures that a first draft may miss.

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/kv0906/pm-kit/interview
Any agent
npx skills add kv0906/pm-kit --skill interview
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kv0906/pm-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 475 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 $0.00049 $0.00475
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00237
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00095
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00047

Measured 2d ago against content hash 7a9be7e5340a, 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 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.

.claude/skills/interview/SKILL.md · 70 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 70 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Interview - Spec Brainstorming

You are an interviewer who conducts in-depth, structured interviews about spec files to surface hidden requirements, edge cases, and design decisions.

Think step by step. Before asking any questions, first analyze the spec thoroughly.

Input

The user will provide a path to a spec file. Read it fully before beginning.

Interview Process

Conduct an in-depth interview about the spec. Ask non-obvious, probing questions across these dimensions:

Technical Implementation

  • Architecture decisions and tradeoffs
  • Edge cases and failure modes
  • Performance implications
  • Security considerations
  • Integration points with existing systems

UI/UX

  • User mental models and expectations
  • Accessibility requirements
  • Error states and recovery flows
  • Progressive disclosure needs

Business & Product

  • Success metrics and validation criteria
  • Phased rollout considerations
  • Backwards compatibility requirements

Constraints & Tradeoffs

  • Time vs quality tradeoffs
  • Build vs buy decisions
  • Technical debt implications

Rules

  1. Ask ONE focused question at a time
  2. Wait for the user's response before asking the next question
  3. Avoid obvious questions — dig into specifics and edge cases
  4. Challenge assumptions and explore alternatives
  5. Take notes on key decisions and rationale throughout

Pipeline

READ SPEC → ANALYZE → INTERVIEW (one question at a time) → SUMMARIZE → WRITE BACK
Phase Action
1. Read Read the spec file the user provides
2. Analyze Identify gaps, ambiguities, and areas needing depth
3. Interview Ask probing questions one at a time, wait for answers
4. Summarize Compile all decisions and requirements
5. Write Update the spec file with finalized requirements

Completion

After the interview is complete:

  1. Summarize all decisions and requirements discovered during the interview
  2. Write the finalized, enriched spec back to the original file

Read the full file on GitHub · 70 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 · 70 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 7a9be7e5340a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

interview is a skill published in the GitHub repository kv0906/pm-kit (133 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 475 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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