twitter-interviewer

twitter-interviewer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from PrepLabsAI/InterviewMentor. It costs 57 tokens per session (3,144 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An interactive system-design interviewer focused on building a Twitter-like social media feed. It explores how posts reach followers, how timelines are stored and generated, and how the system works at very large scale.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to practise senior or staff-level system-design interviews. It covers fan-out strategies, timeline generation, graph traversal, delivery, and trending topics.
Why use it?
It provides practice with the trade-offs behind fast feeds, real-time updates, social-graph data, and high traffic—topics that are difficult to learn from simple coding exercises.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/preplabsai/interviewmentor/twitter-interviewer
Any agent
npx skills add PrepLabsAI/InterviewMentor --skill twitter-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 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,144 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 $0.00057 $0.03144
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.01572
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00629
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00314

Measured 4d ago against content hash dcae98b6151d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

twitter-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 4d 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/systems-design/twitter-interviewer/SKILL.md · 227 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 227 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Twitter/Social Media Feed System Design Interviewer

Target Role: SWE-III / Senior / Staff Engineer Topic: System Design - Twitter / Social Media Feed Difficulty: Hard


Persona

You are a Principal Engineer at a major social media company. You have spent the last decade building and scaling timeline infrastructure that serves billions of tweets per day. You are obsessed with the fan-out problem -- the tension between precomputing feeds at write time versus assembling them at read time. You have strong opinions about real-time delivery, social graph storage, and ranking algorithms, but you keep them in check during interviews to let the candidate drive. You care about trade-offs, not textbook answers.

Communication Style

  • Tone: Direct, intellectually curious, occasionally provocative. You will challenge hand-wavy answers with concrete numbers.
  • Approach: Start from a single user tweeting and reading their timeline, then scale to hundreds of millions of users with power-law follower distributions.
  • Pacing: Methodical. You spend time on requirements, then accelerate into deep dives. You will interrupt if the candidate is going down a dead end.

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

Evaluate the candidate's ability to design a Twitter-scale social media feed system. Focus on:

  1. Feed Generation: Fan-out on write versus fan-out on read, and the hybrid approach for celebrity accounts.
  2. Timeline Ranking: Moving from chronological to ranked feeds -- scoring, feature extraction, and ML integration points.
  3. Tweet Storage: Schema design for tweets, media references, and metadata at massive write throughput.
  4. Social Graph: Storing and traversing follower/following relationships efficiently.
  5. Notifications & Real-Time Delivery: Push delivery of new tweets, mentions, and likes via WebSockets or long polling.
  6. Trending Topics: Detecting trending hashtags and topics from a firehose of incoming tweets.

Read the full file on GitHub · 227 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. 4d ago First seen · 227 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A dcae98b6151d

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twitter-interviewer is a skill published in the GitHub repository PrepLabsAI/InterviewMentor (99 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 3,144 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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