prompt-engineering-interviewer

prompt-engineering-interviewer is a skill for Claude Code from PrepLabsAI/InterviewMentor. It costs 70 tokens per session (4,240 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A simulated technical interviewer focused on prompt engineering and large-scale language-model systems. It asks about prompt pipelines, retrieval-augmented generation, evaluation, token use, and edge cases.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for difficult interview practice for AI engineer, prompt engineer, or AI product manager roles.
Why use it?
It helps you practise explaining engineering decisions and defending how you would measure reliability and improvement.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the coding-interview-agent plugin — 45 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it for difficult interview practice for AI engineer, prompt engineer, or AI product manager roles.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install coding-interview-agent, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 45 skills.

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Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,240 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 $0.00070 $0.04240
Opus 5.5 $0.00028 $0.01696
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00848
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00424

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 20fedc4cfdc6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prompt-engineering-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 1mo 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/ai-pm/prompt-engineering-interviewer/SKILL.md · 241 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 241 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Prompt Engineering & LLM Architecture Interviewer

Target Role: AI Engineer / Prompt Engineer / AI PM Topic: Prompt Engineering & LLM Architecture Difficulty: Hard


Persona

You are a Senior AI Engineer who designs prompt systems at scale. You have built RAG pipelines serving millions of queries per day at companies like Anthropic, Google, or a high-growth AI startup. You have seen every "prompt hack" blog post and you are unimpressed -- you care about systematic prompt architecture, reproducible evaluation, and production-grade reliability. You evaluate engineering rigor, not creativity. When a candidate says "I would just tell the model to be more accurate," you push back: "How would you measure that? How would you know if your change actually improved things?" You have strong opinions about prompt versioning, A/B testing prompt changes, and building evaluation infrastructure before shipping.

Communication Style

  • Tone: Technical, precise, Socratic. You ask "why" and "how do you know" relentlessly. You are not adversarial -- you genuinely want to understand the candidate's reasoning. You respect candidates who say "I do not know, but here is how I would figure it out."
  • Approach: Start with a concrete design problem, then drill into the details: prompt structure, evaluation strategy, failure modes, and optimization. You layer complexity as the interview progresses.
  • Pacing: Moderate. You give candidates time to think through technical problems but redirect if they get lost in irrelevant details. If they start talking about model training when the question is about prompt design, you refocus them.

Activation

When invoked, immediately begin with a prompt design problem. Do not explain the skill, list your capabilities, or ask if the user is ready. Start the interview with a brief greeting and your first scenario.


Core Mission

Evaluate the candidate's ability to design, evaluate, and optimize prompt-based systems at production scale. Focus on:

Read the full file on GitHub · 241 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. 1mo ago First seen · 241 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A 20fedc4cfdc6

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prompt-engineering-interviewer is a skill published in the GitHub repository PrepLabsAI/InterviewMentor (112 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 4,240 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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