jarvis-deep-interview

jarvis-deep-interview is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Ramsbaby/jarvis. It costs 69 tokens per session (786 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided question-and-answer process that turns an unclear software idea into a detailed specification before coding starts. It records the decisions made along the way.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you know what you want to build but not how it should behave in every situation. It helps define requirements through several rounds of narrowing questions.
Why use it?
It exposes missing requirements, contradictions, edge cases, security gaps, and hard-to-reverse choices before they become implementation problems.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the jarvis-deep-interview plugin — 1 skill shipped together

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/ramsbaby/jarvis/deep-interview
Any agent
npx skills add Ramsbaby/jarvis --skill deep-interview
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Ramsbaby/jarvis

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install jarvis-deep-interview, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 786 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 $0.00069 $0.00786
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00393
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00157
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00079

Measured 4d ago against content hash e941caa68b78, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

jarvis-deep-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 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.

plugins/jarvis-deep-interview/skills/deep-interview/SKILL.md · 82 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 82 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/deep-interview — Convergent Requirements Interview

Acts as a senior architect. 8-15 rounds of Socratic questions narrow a vague idea into a production-grade spec. Blocks contradictions, edge-case gaps, and security gaps before any code is written.

How it differs from /brainstorm

  • /brainstorm (divergent): expand possibilities. 15-20 questions + UI mockup variants. Exits when ideation feels saturated.
  • /deep-interview (convergent): spec gating. 8-15 narrowing rounds + decision log. Exits when ambiguity score ≤ threshold.

When to use which:

  • Idea itself is undefined → /brainstorm
  • Idea exists, implementation decisions are undefined → /deep-interview

Mechanism (4 stages)

1. Mathematical ambiguity gating

After each round, score across:

  • Undefined behavior areas
  • Contradiction risk (conflicting requirements)
  • Uncovered edge cases
  • Security gaps (secrets, PII, permissions)
  • Unidentified irreversible decisions

Refuse autonomous implementation until score ≤ 0.2 (default threshold).

2. Socratic question patterns

Examples the agent will ask:

  • "What happens when X scenario triggers Y?"
  • "What evidence would prove this decision wrong (falsifiability condition)?"
  • "What assumptions are you carrying that aren't yet stated?"
  • "What technical debt will this create one year out?"

3. Contrarian / Simplifier Challenge Mode

For each major decision, automatically run two checks:

  • Contrarian: deliberately raise the counter-hypothesis (debiasing — never confirm a single hypothesis without testing its opposite)
  • Simplifier: check whether a much smaller version exists (Karpathy "Simplicity First" — 200 lines vs 50 lines)

4. Decision log auto-write

All decisions, rationale, falsifiability conditions, and challenge results are recorded in JSONL for later audit.

Iron rules integration

  • No fix without root cause: 5-why on each decision
  • Never lie about status: "don't know" is explicitly marked, not papered over
  • User sovereignty: agent questions are strong signals, not commands — user's answer is final

Read the full file on GitHub · 82 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. 4d ago First seen · 82 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A e941caa68b78

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jarvis-deep-interview is a skill published in the GitHub repository Ramsbaby/jarvis (16 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 786 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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