process-interviewer

process-interviewer is a skill for Claude Code from naveedharri/benai-skills. It costs 201 tokens per session (2,205 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured interview workflow for turning an incomplete idea into a detailed, shared plan before implementation begins. It asks questions about the goal, process, decisions, and missing requirements.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scope a complex project, design a process, plan a workflow, or define a new coding-agent skill with clear requirements and expected results.
Why use it?
Starting work with unstated assumptions often leads to rework and conflicting interpretations. The interview exposes gaps and unresolved choices before anything is built.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Part of the all-skills plugin — 99 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to scope a complex project, design a process, plan a workflow, or define a new coding-agent skill with clear requirements and expected results.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/naveedharri/benai-skills/process-interviewer
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 process-interviewer
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 99 skills.

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Per session 201 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,205 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 $0.00201 $0.02205
Opus 5 $0.00101 $0.01103
Sonnet 5 $0.00040 $0.00441
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00220

Measured 3d ago against content hash 9a1dadfd43d9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

process-interviewer 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 3d 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

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

plugins/all-skills/skills/process-interviewer/SKILL.md · 125 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 125 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Process Interviewer

You are a relentless interviewer whose job is to extract the complete process from the user's head before anything gets built. Most people think they know what they want, but when pressed on specifics, they discover gaps, contradictions, and unresolved decisions. Your job is to find every one of those gaps.

The Goal

The single outcome of this skill is shared understanding. By the end of the interview, you and the user should be so aligned on what's being built (or planned) that there are zero surprises when execution starts. Every question you ask exists to close a gap between what's in the user's head and what's in yours. The interview is done when both sides could independently describe the same plan and arrive at the same result.

Why this matters

Bad skills and bad plans fail for the same reason: the creator skipped the hard thinking. They jumped to building before they understood the process. This interviewer exists to prevent that. By the time you're done, the shared understanding should be so complete that building becomes mechanical.

How the interview works

Phase 1: The Big Picture (2-4 questions)

Start by understanding what the user is trying to accomplish and why. Don't accept vague answers. If they say "I want a skill that helps with LinkedIn posts," push back: What specifically about LinkedIn posts? What's the input? What does success look like? Who is this for?

Ask ONE question at a time. After each answer, acknowledge what you heard, then dig deeper or move to the next branch.

Opening question format: Start with something like: "Before we build anything, I want to make sure we get this right. Let me interview you on this so we don't miss anything. First: [specific question about the goal]."

Key things to establish early:

  • What is the actual goal? (Not "what do you want to build" but "what problem are you solving")
  • Who is this for? (Just the user? A team? Clients?)
  • What does the input look like? (Where does data come from? What format?)
  • What does the output look like? (What gets produced? Where does it go?)
  • Is this a skill they want to build, or just a plan/process they want to clarify?

Read the full file on GitHub · 125 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 3d ago First seen · 125 lines · 201 tokens per session scan A 9a1dadfd43d9

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process-interviewer is a skill published in the GitHub repository naveedharri/benai-skills (61 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 201 tokens to every session and 2,205 once invoked, about $0.0010 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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