interview-me

interview-me is a skill for Claude Code from naveedharri/benai-skills. It costs 87 tokens per session (641 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided interview process that asks one question at a time before starting a large or unclear task, then turns the answers into a brief. It first reads available files and context so it does not ask questions whose answers are already visible.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you say you need help briefing a task, do not know where to start, or hand over a large request with important gaps.
Why use it?
It removes guesswork caused by missing requirements, audience details, or constraints. The process focuses questions on information that could change the plan.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the all-skills plugin — 109 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it when you say you need help briefing a task, do not know where to start, or hand over a large request with important gaps.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/naveedharri/benai-skills/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 naveedharri/benai-skills --skill interview-me
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/naveedharri/benai-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install all-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 109 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for interview-me

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 87 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 641 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 $0.00087 $0.00641
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.00320
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00128
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00064

Measured 7d ago against content hash 8464bdd5ae14, 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 7d 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.

plugins/all-skills/skills/interview-me/SKILL.md · 36 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 36 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Interview Me

Most briefs fail because the missing context is in the user's head and nobody asked for it. This skill pulls it out before any work starts, using the pattern Anthropic recommends: interview one question at a time, prioritising the questions whose answers would change the plan.

Source: A field guide to Claude Fable 5 (https://claude.com/blog/a-field-guide-to-claude-fable-finding-your-unknowns).

Process

  1. Read before you ask. Look at whatever is already available: the folder, the files the user mentioned, recent related work. Never ask a question you could answer yourself by reading. Questions you burned on discoverable facts are questions you cannot spend on real unknowns.

  2. Interview, one question at a time. Ask 5 to 7 questions maximum, one per turn, in plain language. Prioritise questions whose answer would change the shape of the work: the audience, the decision this output feeds, what already exists, what must not change. Push past vague answers: if the user says "make it better," ask what better looks like and how you would both know it happened.

  3. Cover four things by the end of the interview:

    • What already exists and where it lives.
    • The goal: what this output enables, and for whom.
    • Which decisions the user actually cares about. Everything they do not claim is your call.
    • What proof of done looks like: how they want the result verified before they see it.
  4. Run a blind spot pass. Before writing the brief, ask yourself one final question and share the answer: what has this interview not covered that could change the outcome? Name the unknown unknowns you can see.

  5. Write the brief back. Compile everything into one master brief with these parts: the job, the why (who it is for and what it enables), the guardrails (scope, what not to touch), and done-means (exit criteria, deliverable size, how to report back). Show it to the user.

  6. On approval, execute the brief. Check in only at decisions the user claimed in step 3.

Read the full file on GitHub · 36 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. 7d ago First seen · 36 lines · 87 tokens per session scan A 8464bdd5ae14

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interview-me is a skill published in the GitHub repository naveedharri/benai-skills (61 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 87 tokens to every session and 641 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-05.

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