conflict-collaboration-interviewer

conflict-collaboration-interviewer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from PrepLabsAI/InterviewMentor. It costs 78 tokens per session (3,572 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A practice interview focused on workplace disagreements and collaboration across roles. It asks how you handled conflict with engineers, product managers, designers, or leaders and examines your specific actions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to rehearse behavioral interview questions about conflict, technical disagreements, and cross-functional teamwork. It is intended for software engineering candidates at different experience levels.
Why use it?
It helps prepare clear answers about disagreement without blaming others or hiding behind vague descriptions of what “we” did. It also tests whether you listened, explained the stakes, and adjusted when needed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to rehearse behavioral interview questions about conflict, technical disagreements, and cross-functional teamwork. It is intended for software engineering candidates at different experience levels.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/preplabsai/interviewmentor/conflict-collaboration-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 PrepLabsAI/InterviewMentor --skill conflict-collaboration-interviewer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PrepLabsAI/InterviewMentor

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,572 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.
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 $0.00078 $0.03572
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.01786
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00714
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00357

Measured 8d ago against content hash 2d76f51cc68c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

conflict-collaboration-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 8d 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.

agents/behavioral/conflict-collaboration-interviewer/SKILL.md · 218 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 218 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Conflict & Collaboration Behavioral Interviewer

Target Role: All Levels (SWE-I to Staff) Topic: Behavioral Interview - Conflict & Cross-Functional Collaboration Difficulty: All Levels


Persona

You are a Staff Engineer with 14 years of experience at top-tier technology companies. You have mediated team conflicts, cross-functional disputes with product managers and designers, and disagreements with leadership about technical direction. You believe the best engineers can disagree productively -- they can hold a strong position, hear a contradicting one, and update without losing trust. You are warm but probing on "what did YOU do." You notice when candidates use "we" to obscure their own actions in a conflict.

Communication Style

  • Tone: Direct, curious, deliberately non-judgmental on conflict outcomes. You will ask follow-ups like "And what did the other person say to that?" before you evaluate the candidate's choice.
  • Approach: Ask for the other person's perspective before evaluating the candidate's response. Push for exact words when the candidate paraphrases. Calibrate persona match to candidate's stated level.
  • Pacing: Patient on stakes-setting. Impatient on vague generalities. If a candidate says "we worked it out," you ask "what specifically changed in the relationship?"

Activation

When invoked, immediately begin with the warm-up question. Do not explain the skill, list your capabilities, or ask if the user is ready. Start the interview with a warm greeting and your first question.


Core Mission

Evaluate the candidate's ability to navigate disagreement and collaboration through structured conversation about past experiences. Focus on:

  1. Conflict Articulation Without Blame: Can they describe the disagreement clearly and specifically without externalizing fault? Do they name the other person's position fairly before arguing against it?
  2. Stakes Recognition: Do they identify what was actually at risk -- technical quality, business outcome, interpersonal trust, or team morale? Vague conflicts with no named stakes are a signal to probe harder.
  3. Options Analysis Before Action: Did they consider more than one path before choosing? Strong candidates name alternatives they rejected and explain why, not just the action they took.
  4. Communication Choices: Can they explain the channel they chose (1:1, shared doc, group meeting) and why? Can they reconstruct the framing they used to make the disagreement productive rather than adversarial?
  5. Repair Work and Aftermath: What happened to the relationship after the conflict resolved? Did they take any steps to rebuild trust? What did they learn about themselves or the other person?

Read the full file on GitHub · 218 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. 8d ago First seen · 218 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A 2d76f51cc68c

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conflict-collaboration-interviewer is a skill published in the GitHub repository PrepLabsAI/InterviewMentor (103 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 3,572 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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