prd-v10-mom-test-interview

prd-v10-mom-test-interview is a skill for Claude Code from mattgierhart/PRD-driven-context-engineering. It costs 101 tokens per session (2,583 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A customer-interview guide based on Rob Fitzpatrick’s Mom Test, a method for learning about people’s real past behavior instead of asking whether they like a proposed idea.

In plain words
What is it for?
Preparing discovery interviews, writing question scripts, recording findings, calibrating confidence, flagging weak evidence, and synthesizing patterns across several interviews.
Why use it?
It reduces flattering but unreliable feedback by focusing conversations on specific experiences, actions, and problems customers have actually had.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Preparing discovery interviews, writing question scripts, recording findings, calibrating confidence, flagging weak evidence, and synthesizing patterns across several interviews.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mattgierhart/prd-driven-context-engineering/prd-v10-mom-test-interview
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add mattgierhart/PRD-driven-context-engineering --skill prd-v10-mom-test-interview
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mattgierhart/PRD-driven-context-engineering

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 101 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,583 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00101 $0.02583
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.01291
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00517
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00258

Measured 10d ago against content hash 797961d5ffef, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prd-v10-mom-test-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 10d 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/prd-v10-mom-test-interview/SKILL.md · 216 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 216 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Mom Test Interview Discipline

Position in workflow: v1.0 Continuous Discovery (Torres) → v1.0 Mom Test Interview → v1.0 Case Study Builder, Testimonial Collector

Execution Mode

Default is standard. See .claude/rules/08-skill-execution-modes.md for selection logic.

Mode What this skill produces
quick Single interview prep + question list + CFD-* discovery entry post-interview
standard Interview prep + scripted opening + 5–7 questions + CFD-* entry with confidence calibration + Bad Data flagged
deep Multi-interview cohort plan + cross-interview synthesis + pattern flagging at 3-mention threshold + assumption-test handoff

Framework: The Mom Test

From The Mom Test: How to Talk to Customers and Learn If Your Business is a Good Idea When Everyone is Lying to You (Rob Fitzpatrick, 2013). Premise: People lie to spare your feelings — especially about your business idea. Learn to ask questions that get truth.

The three Mom Test rules

  1. Talk about their life, not your idea. Ask about how they actually live and work, not whether they'd like your hypothetical feature.
  2. Ask about specifics in the past, not generics or opinions about the future. "Last time you faced X, what did you do?" beats "Would you use a tool that does Y?"
  3. Talk less and listen more. If you're talking more than 30% of the time, you're pitching, not learning.

Three types of Bad Data to avoid

Bad Data type Example Why it's bad What to do
Compliments "That sounds awesome!" Politeness; not predictive Discard; don't update confidence
Fluff "I usually..." "I would probably..." Generics, future hypotheticals Anchor to specifics: "When did you last do that?"
Ideas "You should add X" Solution suggestions disguised as needs Note as IDEA; ask "what would solving X enable you to do?" — get the underlying job

Read the full file on GitHub · 216 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. 10d ago First seen · 216 lines · 101 tokens per session scan A 797961d5ffef

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prd-v10-mom-test-interview is a skill published in the GitHub repository mattgierhart/PRD-driven-context-engineering (182 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 101 tokens to every session and 2,583 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.