interview-me

interview-me is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mycelium-hq/ai-brain-starter. It costs 113 tokens per session (2,646 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of interview-me, MIT.

A guided question-and-answer step for clarifying an underspecified software request before planning or building it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a request lacks enough detail about who it serves, why it matters, what success means, or what limits the solution must respect.
Why use it?
Requests such as “build a dashboard” may leave the audience, goal, success measure, or constraints unclear. Clarifying those points reduces the risk of building the wrong thing.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Part of the ai-brain-starter plugin — 38 skills, 17 commands, 3 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it when a request lacks enough detail about who it serves, why it matters, what success means, or what limits the solution must respect.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mycelium-hq/ai-brain-starter/interview-me
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.

Any agent
npx skills add mycelium-hq/ai-brain-starter --skill interview-me
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mycelium-hq/ai-brain-starter

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install ai-brain-starter, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 38 skills, 17 commands, 3 agents, 1 hook.

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Per session 113 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,646 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 81% 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 $0.00113 $0.02646
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.01323
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00529
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00265

Measured 11d ago against content hash 2f47a461936d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

interview-me 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.

Origin

This is a copy

81% identical to interview-me — 63 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.

skills/interview-me/SKILL.md · 183 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 183 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Interview Me

Cherry-picked from addyosmani/agent-skills (MIT) 2026-05-26.

Overview

What people ask for and what they actually want are different things. They ask for "a dashboard" because that's what one asks for, not because a dashboard solves their problem. They say "make it faster" without a number to hit.

The cheapest moment to find this gap is before any plan, spec, or code exists. Once you've started building, switching costs are real, and the user will rationalize the wrong thing into a "good enough" thing. The misfit gets locked in.

This skill closes the gap before it costs anything. It complements (does not replace) batched-options elicitation skills: this skill is for free-form interview when you don't yet know enough to offer a bounded set of choices. Use the batched-options skill when the user knows roughly what they want but needs to pick between framings; use this skill when you can't write a one-sentence statement of intent yet.

When to Use

Apply this skill when:

  • The ask is missing at least one of: who the user is, why they want it, what success looks like, what the binding constraint is
  • The request is conventional rather than specific ("build me X", "make it faster") and you can't unpack the convention without guessing
  • You're tempted to start with assumptions you haven't surfaced
  • The user hasn't said which value they're optimizing for when two reasonable ones are in tension (simplicity vs. flexibility, cost vs. speed)
  • The user explicitly invokes: "interview me", "grill me", "before we start, are we sure?", "stress-test my thinking"

When NOT to use:

  • The ask is unambiguous and self-contained ("rename this variable", "fix this typo")
  • The user has explicitly asked for speed over verification
  • Pure information requests ("how does X work?", "what does this code do?")
  • Mechanical operations (renames, formats, file moves)
  • You already have ≥95% confidence; re-read the stop condition below before assuming you don't

Read the full file on GitHub · 183 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 · 183 lines · 113 tokens per session scan A 2f47a461936d

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interview-me is a skill published in the GitHub repository mycelium-hq/ai-brain-starter (36 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 113 tokens to every session and 2,646 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 81% identical to interview-me, differing in 63 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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