measuring-ai-proficiency: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/plan-interview/SKILL.md

plan-interview is a skill for Claude Code from pskoett/measuring-ai-proficiency. It costs 108 tokens per session (1,336 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A requirements interview for planning a new feature, refactor, or other substantial implementation. It asks about technical limits, scope, risks, and what success means before implementation planning begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before non-trivial implementation work to clarify performance, compatibility, scope boundaries, dependencies, trade-offs, and acceptance criteria.
Why use it?
It helps expose missing requirements and assumptions before coding starts, reducing the chance of building the wrong solution.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

This is pskoett/measuring-ai-proficiency's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on measuring-ai-proficiency itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything measuring-ai-proficiency configures →

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Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to pskoett/measuring-ai-proficiency. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

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Per session 108 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,336 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

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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 $0.00108 $0.01336
Opus 5 $0.00054 $0.00668
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00267
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00134

Measured 6d ago against content hash 067a8b80ee84, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plan-interview 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/plan-interview/SKILL.md · 192 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 192 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Plan Interview Skill

Purpose

Run a structured requirements interview before planning implementation. This ensures alignment between you and the user by gathering explicit requirements rather than making assumptions.

When Invoked

User calls /plan-interview <task description>.

Skip this skill if the task is purely research/exploration (not implementation).

Interview Process

Phase 1: Upfront Interview (Before Exploration)

Interview the user using AskUserQuestion in thematic batches of 2-3 questions when the provider supports it. For providers like GitHub Copilot without an AskUser tool, ask the same questions directly in chat and pause for responses before continuing.

Required Question Domains

Cover ALL four domains before proceeding:

  1. Technical Constraints

    • Performance requirements
    • Compatibility needs
    • Existing patterns to follow
    • Architecture understanding (if codebase is unfamiliar)
  2. Scope Boundaries

    • What's explicitly OUT of scope
    • MVP vs full vision
    • Dependencies on other work
  3. Risk Tolerance

    • Acceptable tradeoffs (speed vs quality)
    • Tech debt tolerance
    • Breaking change acceptance
  4. Success Criteria

    • How will we know it's done?
    • What defines "working correctly"?
    • Testing/validation requirements
Question Generation
  • Generate questions dynamically based on the task - no fixed template
  • Group related questions into thematic batches
  • 2-3 questions per batch (do not exceed)
  • Continue until you have actionable specificity (can describe concrete implementation steps)
Handling Edge Cases
Scenario Action
Contradictory requirements Make a recommendation with rationale, ask for confirmation
User pivots requirements Restart interview fresh with new direction
Interrupted session Ask user: continue where we left off or restart?
Anti-Patterns to Avoid
  • Do NOT ask variations of the same question
  • Do NOT make major assumptions without asking
  • Do NOT over-engineer plans for simple tasks

Read the full file on GitHub · 192 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 · 192 lines · 108 tokens per session scan A 067a8b80ee84

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plan-interview is a skill published in the GitHub repository pskoett/measuring-ai-proficiency (11 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 108 tokens to every session and 1,336 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 2026-08-31.

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