intake-interview

intake-interview is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from panaversity/ksor. It costs 84 tokens per session (2,355 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guided interview for defining what a company's knowledge base contains, who can read it, and who can approve changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
It asks the owner three focused questions, one at a time, then records the answers in the project's identity file.
Why use it?
It prevents the system's purpose and rules from being guessed or left unclear.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents); mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit It asks the owner three focused questions, one at a time, then records the answers in the project's identity file.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/panaversity/ksor/intake-interview
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 panaversity/ksor --skill intake-interview
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/panaversity/ksor

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 84 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,355 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 $0.00084 $0.02355
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.01177
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00471
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00235

Measured 3d ago against content hash 164672012a90, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

intake-interview 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.

packages/ksor/templates/scaffold/.agents/skills/intake-interview/SKILL.md · 178 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 178 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Intake interview

instance.md is the identity of this Knowledge System of Record, and its prose IS the agent surface's system prompt (ksor serve wires it into the MCP server's instructions). Do not draft it from guesses — interview the owner, one question at a time, and write down what they actually say.

Ask THREE questions, one at a time

Ask them in the OWNER's words, not this project's. The vocabulary on this page — record, corpus, abstention, governance act — is precise and it is ours; an owner meeting it for the first time in a question cannot answer, and says so (reported 2026-08-26, against the wording these replaced: "the corpus wins about ___" asked them to complete a sentence that is not English unless you already know the ledger analogy).

Ask exactly this much. Do not explain what the answer will be used for inside the question — that is what made the last version unanswerable.


1 of 3 — What is this knowledge base about?

Be specific enough that I would know what does NOT belong in it.

Too vague: "our engineering docs" — I still could not tell what to leave out. Specific enough: "our leave, expense and conduct policies, current versions only."


2 of 3 — What is close to that, but not part of it?

Things people will ask this and it should NOT answer. A confident wrong answer is worse than "I do not cover that."

For the policies example: "not salaries, not individual HR cases, not last year's versions."


3 of 3 — Who signs off on a document, and who can take one down?

Names or handles, not job titles. If it is just you, say so.

Ask for BOTH: the handle the record will store (human:bashiraziz) and the natural name to print ("Bashir Aziz"). They are not derivable from each other — human:ciso and human:mjs are not anybody's squashed full name — so the handle goes into the frontmatter and the policy, and the pair goes into .ksor/people.yaml for the site to print.


Follow up until each is concrete, but follow up in their words too: "what would someone actually ask this?" gets further than "name the boundary".

Read the full file on GitHub · 178 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. 3d ago Changed · +24 lines 164672012a90
  2. 8d ago First seen · 154 lines · 84 tokens per session scan A 81555b3f2ea0

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intake-interview is a skill published in the GitHub repository panaversity/ksor (151 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 84 tokens to every session and 2,355 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 2026-08-30.

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