interview

A scope-clarifying interview step for work where the goal, limits, or expected result are not clear.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps choose among possible goals, constraints, and approaches, then summarizes the agreed scope before proceeding.
Why use it?
It reduces misunderstandings by asking a small set of task-specific multiple-choice questions before work 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/mifunedev/openharness/interview
Any agent
npx skills add mifunedev/openharness --skill interview
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mifunedev/openharness

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,265 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.00073 $0.02265
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.01132
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00453
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00227

Measured 2d ago against content hash 2bf03647e9bf, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

interview scanned grade C with 1 finding 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.

Tells the agent never to refusehighAnti-refusal

Suppressing the ability to decline removes a core safety control; a later harmful request then succeeds.

Do not refuse silently. The skip is a signal, not an absence.
.oh/skills/interview/SKILL.md · 199 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 199 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Interview

Resolve scope ambiguity before non-trivial work by batching 2–4 task-specific multiple-choice questions through AskUserQuestion, then proceeding with a short scope brief that reflects the answers.

When to use

  • /interview invoked explicitly (with or without a task description).
  • Proactively, before non-trivial work where scope, intent, or constraints are ambiguous AND the user hasn't already specified them in the prompt.

The structured tool (AskUserQuestion) earns its keep when the user can resolve scope in one click rather than a paragraph of free-text Q&A.

When NOT to use

Skip — and announce the skip — when any of these hold:

  • Trivial edits — single-file typo, comment-only edit, format/whitespace pass.
  • Already specified — the user's prompt already names goal + scope + constraints + acceptance criteria.
  • Follow-up turn — same task, context already established earlier in the conversation.
  • Trivial CLI invocations/release, /ci-status, gh pr list, etc.
  • Plan approval moments — that's ExitPlanMode, not this skill. AskUserQuestion is for picking among options, not approving a finished plan.
  • About to run /prd or /spec plan — those have their own clarifier. For v1 the user chooses one or the other; do not stack.

Instructions

1. Classify trivial vs non-trivial

If the task is trivial (per § When NOT to use), announce the skip and continue:

Skipping interview — this looks trivial. Proceeding directly.

Do not refuse silently. The skip is a signal, not an absence.

2. Extract what's already known

Read the conversation context. List, internally, what's already specified — goal, files touched, mode, constraints, acceptance. Do not re-ask anything the context already answers. A question whose answer is already in the prompt is a tell that the model didn't read.

3. Pick 2–4 questions

Each question must clear the bar in § Question quality bar below. If you can't write 2 that clear the bar, ask 1 (sequential calls are fine) or skip and announce why. Don't quota-fill to reach 4.

Read the full file on GitHub · 199 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 · 199 lines · 73 tokens per session scan C 2bf03647e9bf

Subscribe to this mod's changes

interview is a skill published in the GitHub repository mifunedev/openharness (36 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 2,265 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (tells the agent never to refuse). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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