interview-me

interview-me is a skill for Claude Code from pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow. It costs 103 tokens per session (1,540 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An interactive research interview that turns an early research idea into a structured study plan.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for developing research questions, hypotheses, causal approaches, data needs, and empirical strategies through step-by-step questions.
Why use it?
It helps clarify the question, expected answers, data requirements, and method before research begins.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

About the project

claude-code-my-workflow is a forkable setup for using Claude Code to produce and review academic papers, slides, data analyses, and replication packages. Researchers use its agents, skills, rules, hooks, and quality checks to coordinate these tasks and verify their results. The catalogue entries define the reusable workflow components for Claude Code.

pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow · 1,563 stars · on GitHub · psantanna.com

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/pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow/interview-me
Any agent
npx skills add pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow --skill interview-me
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 103 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,540 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 $0.00103 $0.01540
Opus 5 $0.00051 $0.00770
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00308
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00154

Measured 6d ago against content hash 78c572dea1c2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, 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 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.

.claude/skills/interview-me/SKILL.md · 139 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 139 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Research Interview

Conduct a structured interview to help formalize a research idea into a concrete specification.

Input: $ARGUMENTS — a brief topic description or "start fresh" for an open-ended exploration.


How This Works

This is a conversational skill. Instead of producing a report immediately, you conduct an interview by asking questions one at a time, probing deeper based on answers, and building toward a structured research specification.

Do NOT use AskUserQuestion. Ask questions directly in your text responses, one or two at a time. Wait for the user to respond before continuing.


Interview Structure

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

  • "What phenomenon or puzzle are you trying to understand?"
  • "Why does this matter? Who should care about the answer?"
  • After the user answers, optionally ask: "Do you have a sense of what kind of paper this would be — reduced-form / structural / theory+empirics / descriptive / formal-theory / survey-experiment / unsure?" (See .claude/agents/methods-referee.md for the type definitions and .claude/references/discipline-cards.md for field-default frequencies.) Record the answer in the saved spec under the **Paper type:** header field; "unsure" is fine and is recorded as **Paper type:** unsure.

Phase 2: Theoretical Motivation (1-2 questions)

  • "What's your intuition for why X happens / what drives Y?"
  • "What would standard theory predict? Do you expect something different?"

Phase 3: Data and Setting (1-2 questions)

  • "What data do you have access to, or what data would you ideally want?"
  • "Is there a specific context, time period, or institutional setting you're focused on?"

Phase 4: Identification (1-2 questions)

  • "Is there a natural experiment, policy change, or source of variation you can exploit?"
  • "What's the biggest threat to a causal interpretation?"

Phase 5: Expected Results (1-2 questions)

  • "What would you expect to find? What would surprise you?"
  • "What would the results imply for policy or theory?"

Read the full file on GitHub · 139 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 · 139 lines · 103 tokens per session scan A 78c572dea1c2

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interview-me is a skill published in the GitHub repository pedrohcgs/claude-code-my-workflow (1,563 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 103 tokens to every session and 1,540 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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