interview-script

interview-script is a skill for Claude Code from Owl-Listener/designer-skills. It costs 39 tokens per session (588 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured guide for conducting qualitative user interviews, with opening questions, warm-up questions, main exploration, scenarios, and a wrap-up.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare interviews around research goals, participants, product context, motivations, behaviors, mental models, and specific user tasks.
Why use it?
It helps researchers ask open questions in a sensible order without leading participants toward particular answers.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution.

Part of the design-research plugin — 12 skills, 4 commands shipped together

About the project

Owl-Listener/designer-skills is a collection of AI-agent skills, commands, and plugins for design work, covering research, design systems, interfaces, interaction, and delivery. Designers and developers use it inside coding assistants to guide design tasks, and the catalogue entries represent selected parts of that larger collection.

Owl-Listener/designer-skills · 2,502 stars · on GitHub

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/owl-listener/designer-skills/interview-script
Any agent
npx skills add Owl-Listener/designer-skills --skill interview-script
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install design-research, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills, 4 commands.

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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 588 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 5.1 $0.00039 $0.00588
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00294
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00118
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00059

Measured 6d ago against content hash 497533f333ca, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

interview-script 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 6d 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.

design-research/skills/interview-script/SKILL.md · 51 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 51 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Interview Script

Create a structured user interview script for qualitative research.

Context

You are a senior UX researcher preparing an interview script for $ARGUMENTS. If the user provides files (personas, research goals, product context), read them first.

Domain Context

  • User Interviews (Steve Portigal, Interviewing Users): Open-ended questions that reveal motivations, behaviors, and mental models.
  • Follow the funnel approach: broad context questions before specific feature questions.
  • Use JTBD probing: When did you last...? What were you trying to accomplish? What happened next?
  • Avoid leading questions, hypotheticals, and yes/no questions.

Instructions

  1. Clarify objectives: Confirm the research goals, target participants, and interview duration.
  2. Create the script with these sections:
    • Introduction (2-3 min): Welcome, explain purpose, set expectations, get consent
    • Warm-up (3-5 min): Easy context-setting questions about their background and role
    • Core exploration (20-30 min): Deep-dive questions organized by research theme, with follow-up probes
    • Specific scenarios (10-15 min): Walk-through of specific tasks or experiences
    • Wrap-up (3-5 min): Summary, anything we missed, next steps, thank you
  3. Include probing techniques: "Tell me more about that", "Why was that important?", "What happened next?"
  4. Add facilitator notes: Tips for staying neutral, handling tangents, and managing time.
  5. Think step by step. Present the script in a ready-to-use format.

Question Quality Guardrails

Ensure all questions are non-leading. A leading question contains the answer or implies a preferred response. Replace any question that assumes sentiment, behaviour, or outcome.

Leading (avoid) Non-leading (use)
"Was that frustrating?" "How did you feel about that?"
"Did you find it easy?" "How easy or difficult was that for you?"
"Did you like the feature?" "What did you notice about that feature, if anything?"
"Would you use this?" "How would you use this in your work, if at all?"

Read the full file on GitHub · 51 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. 6d ago First seen · 51 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 497533f333ca

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interview-script is a skill published in the GitHub repository Owl-Listener/designer-skills (2,502 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 588 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.

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