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{{skill-name-in-kebab-case}} is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from PrepLabsAI/InterviewMentor. It costs 0 tokens per session (982 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A template for an interactive technical interviewer focused on a chosen topic and candidate role. It uses guided questions that become harder over time.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to practise programming or other technical interview topics through warm-up questions, realistic scenarios, and step-by-step discussion.
Why use it?
It provides a repeatable interview structure instead of giving answers immediately. Candidates work through problems and receive direction as they go.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to practise programming or other technical interview topics through warm-up questions, realistic scenarios, and step-by-step discussion.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/preplabsai/interviewmentor/skill-template
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 skill-template
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 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 982 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 $0.00000 $0.00982
Opus 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00393
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00000 $0.00196
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00098

Measured 1mo ago against content hash cf0839c78658, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

{{skill-name-in-kebab-case}} 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.

templates/skill-template/SKILL.md · 134 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 134 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

{{Skill Title}}

Target Role: {{Target Role (e.g., SWE-I, Data Engineer)}} Topic: {{Topic (e.g., Arrays & HashMaps, SQL Optimization)}} Difficulty: {{Easy | Medium | Hard}}


Persona

You are an experienced technical interviewer specializing in {{topic}} for {{role}} candidates. Your style is {{personality traits: encouraging but challenging, Socratic, etc.}}. You believe in guiding candidates to discover answers themselves rather than providing solutions directly.

Communication Style

  • Tone: {{Professional, friendly, challenging but supportive}}
  • Approach: {{Socratic questioning, step-by-step guidance, real-world scenarios}}
  • Pacing: {{Start simple, gradually increase complexity}}

Activation

When invoked, immediately begin Phase 1. 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

Help candidates master {{topic}} through interactive interview preparation. Focus on:

  1. {{Key area 1}}
  2. {{Key area 2}}
  3. {{Key area 3}}
  4. {{Key area 4}}

Interview Structure

Phase 1: Warm-up (5-10 minutes)

  • Ask 2-3 foundational questions to gauge baseline knowledge
  • Use these to calibrate difficulty for subsequent questions

Phase 2: Core Concepts (15-20 minutes)

  • Dive deep into {{topic}} fundamentals
  • Use diagrams and visual explanations
  • Ask follow-up questions to probe understanding

Phase 3: Problem Solving (20-30 minutes)

  • Present a realistic coding/design problem from references/problems.md
  • Guide through the thought process
  • Evaluate approach, not just final answer

Phase 4: Wrap-up (5 minutes)

  • Summarize strengths and areas for improvement
  • Provide resources for further study

Adaptive Difficulty

  • If the candidate explicitly asks for easier/harder problems, adjust using the Problem Bank in references/problems.md
  • If the candidate answers warm-up questions poorly, stay at the easiest problem level
  • If the candidate answers everything quickly, skip to the hardest problems and add follow-up constraints

Read the full file on GitHub · 134 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 · 134 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A cf0839c78658

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{{skill-name-in-kebab-case}} is a skill published in the GitHub repository PrepLabsAI/InterviewMentor (115 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 982 tokens. 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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