conducting-interviews

conducting-interviews is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from liqiongyu/lenny_skills_plus. It costs 34 tokens per session (1,896 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for structured behavioral hiring interviews, where candidates are asked about past actions and experiences to assess defined skills and values. It covers interview planning, questions, scoring, and debriefs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create interview scripts, design an interview loop, define competency-based questions, build scorecards, reduce interviewer bias, and write a summary ready for a hiring debrief.
Why use it?
Unstructured interviews can reward polished answers and produce inconsistent judgments. A shared process and scorecard help interviewers collect evidence and compare candidates more consistently.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to create interview scripts, design an interview loop, define competency-based questions, build scorecards, reduce interviewer bias, and write a summary ready for a hiring debrief.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/liqiongyu/lenny_skills_plus/conducting-interviews
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add liqiongyu/lenny_skills_plus --skill conducting-interviews
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/liqiongyu/lenny_skills_plus

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,896 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.
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 $0.00034 $0.01896
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00948
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00379
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00190

Measured 11d ago against content hash ed235480da9b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

conducting-interviews 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 11d 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/conducting-interviews/SKILL.md · 129 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 129 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Conducting Interviews (Structured, Behavioral)

Scope

Covers

  • Preparing and running structured interviews (screen + loop) with consistent criteria
  • Behavioral interviewing mapped to competencies/values
  • Getting to “substance over polish” (avoiding “confident but shallow” signal)
  • Capturing evidence, scoring consistently, and writing a debrief-ready summary

When to use

  • “Help me conduct interviews for a .”
  • “Create an interview script / interview question set / scorecard for .”
  • “Design an interview loop and structured rubric for .”
  • “Improve interviewer consistency and reduce bias.”

When NOT to use

  • You need to define the role outcomes or write the job description (use writing-job-descriptions first)
  • You need to make a final hiring decision, design work samples, or run reference checks (use evaluating-candidates)
  • You need to conduct user/customer research interviews (use conducting-user-interviews — completely different skill)
  • You need to onboard the person after hiring (use onboarding-new-hires)
  • You need legal/HR compliance guidance or to adjudicate complex employment risk (this skill is not legal advice)
  • You need compensation/offer strategy or negotiation coaching

Inputs

Minimum required

  • Role + level + function (e.g., “Senior PM”, “Engineering Manager”)
  • Interview stage(s) to design/run (screen, hiring manager, panel, etc.) + duration(s)
  • Evaluation criteria: 4–8 competencies/values to measure (or your existing rubric)
  • Company/team context candidates should know (mission, what’s hard, why now)
  • Candidate materials (resume/portfolio) + any areas to probe

Missing-info strategy

  • Ask up to 5 questions from references/INTAKE.md.
  • If criteria aren’t provided, propose a default criteria set and clearly label it as an assumption.

Outputs (deliverables)

Produce an Interview Execution Pack in Markdown (in-chat; or as files if requested):

  1. Interview plan (stage purpose, criteria, agenda, timeboxes)
  2. Question map (questions → competency/value → what good looks like → follow-up probes)
  3. Interviewer script (opening, transitions, probes, close)
  4. Notes + scorecard (rating anchors + evidence capture)
  5. Debrief summary template (evidence-based strengths/concerns + hire/no-hire signal + follow-ups)
  6. Risks / Open questions / Next steps (always included)

Read the full file on GitHub · 129 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. 11d ago First seen · 129 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A ed235480da9b

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conducting-interviews is a skill published in the GitHub repository liqiongyu/lenny_skills_plus (52 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 1,896 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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