interview

A question-driven method for turning vague requirements into clear, checked specifications for an AI workflow.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to interview stakeholders, inspect repository facts, refine answers, review alternatives, track open decisions, and approve a final specification.
Why use it?
It exposes hidden assumptions and unresolved choices before work begins, while keeping decisions and readiness checks visible.

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/q00/ouroboros/interview
Any agent
npx skills add Q00/ouroboros --skill interview
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Q00/ouroboros

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 11 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 11,580 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. 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 $0.00011 $0.11580
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.05790
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.02316
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.01158

Measured today against content hash 404cf415e3ff, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

interview scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 today.

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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -s --max-time 3 https://api.github.com/repos/Q00/ouroboros/releases/latest | grep -o '"tag_name": "[^"]*"' | head -1
skills/interview/SKILL.md · 914 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 914 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/ouroboros:interview

Socratic interview to crystallize vague requirements into clear specifications.

Required Skill Capabilities

  • ask_user — ask human-judgment questions through the active runtime's user-question surface.
  • inspect_code — answer repo-local factual questions from exact local files before asking the user.
  • call_mcp — use Ouroboros MCP tools for persistent interview state and seed generation.
  • run_lateral_review — invoke lateral thinking subagents before milestone turns and direct-answer synthesis.
  • web_research — fetch current external facts only when the interview genuinely depends on them.
  • run_shell — run bounded local commands for version checks and repository inspection.
  • refine_answer — confirm structured interpretations of free-text answers before forwarding them.
  • maintain_ledger — keep ambiguity, gates, and unresolved decisions visible in the main session.
  • run_closure_gate — audit readiness locally even when MCP reports seed-ready.
  • restate_goal — restate the goal and require explicit approval before seed generation.

Non-Skippable Gates

  • Refine free-text answers that carry scope, constraints, or decisions.
  • Maintain a visible ambiguity ledger in the main session.
  • Treat MCP seed-ready as permission to audit closure, not as completion.
  • Apply Seed Closer criteria before suggesting or running seed generation.
  • Run the Restate gate before seed generation.
  • Require explicit user approval before suggesting or running seed generation.

Usage

ooo interview [topic]
/ouroboros:interview [topic]

Trigger keywords: "interview me", "clarify requirements"

Instructions

When the user invokes this skill:

Step 0: Version Check (runs before interview)

Before starting the interview, check if a newer version is available:

# Fetch latest release tag from GitHub (timeout 3s to avoid blocking)
curl -s --max-time 3 https://api.github.com/repos/Q00/ouroboros/releases/latest | grep -o '"tag_name": "[^"]*"' | head -1

Read the full file on GitHub · 914 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. today Changed · +29 lines 404cf415e3ff
  2. 3d ago First seen · 885 lines · 11 tokens per session scan A 0e9a26b48429

Subscribe to this mod's changes

interview is a skill published in the GitHub repository Q00/ouroboros (5,747 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 11 tokens to every session and 11,580 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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