interview-synthesis

interview-synthesis is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from redhuntlabs/wizard. It costs 25 tokens per session (1,096 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for turning notes from interviews into recurring themes, supporting quotes, and decisions or hypotheses.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after user research, expert, stakeholder, or other structured interviews when you need to understand what the conversations suggest.
Why use it?
It turns scattered conversation notes into findings that can guide product, research, journalism, or internal decisions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the wizard plugin — 37 skills, 6 commands, 1 agent, 1 hook 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/redhuntlabs/wizard/interview-synthesis
Any agent
npx skills add redhuntlabs/wizard --skill interview-synthesis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/redhuntlabs/wizard

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install wizard, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 37 skills, 6 commands, 1 agent, 1 hook.

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README.md
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Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,096 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 $0.00025 $0.01096
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00548
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00219
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00110

Measured 4d ago against content hash 9768b5566193, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

interview-synthesis 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.

spells/research/interview-synthesis/SKILL.md · 126 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 126 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Interview Synthesis

What this does

Turns raw interview notes (1-N interviews) into a structured synthesis: themes that recurred, verbatim quotes that anchor each theme, and the decisions or hypotheses the synthesis supports.

When to use

  • After user research interviews
  • After expert interviews for journalism / writing / product work
  • After internal stakeholder interviews
  • After any structured set of conversations where the next step is "what do we do with this"

What you bring (Inputs)

  • Raw notes from N interviews (transcripts or your shorthand)
  • The original research question (what were you trying to learn)
  • Who the synthesis is for (you / a team / a client) — drives format

What you get (Output)

A document with: research question, methods, themes (3-7), verbatim supporting quotes per theme, surprises, and the decisions or hypotheses the data supports.

How it works (Steps)

This is a workflow.

Stages

Stage 1: Re-read with fresh eyes

Read all the notes through once without highlighting anything. Just take in the totality. This guards against latching onto the first idea.

Stage 2: Tag each note

Go through each interview and tag observations. Tags are short — 2-4 words. Examples: "Pricing confusion," "Wants integration," "Onboarding too slow."

Don't merge tags yet. Keep them granular.

Stage 3: Cluster tags into themes

Group similar tags. Aim for 3-7 themes. If you have 1-2, you're under-clustering. If you have 15+, you're over-tagging.

A theme is interesting if it appears in more than one interview AND is non-obvious.

Stage 4: Find the verbatim quote per theme

For each theme, pull the strongest 1-2 verbatim quotes. Use the speaker's actual words. These anchor the theme and prevent paraphrasing drift.

Stage 5: Note surprises

What did you NOT expect to hear? What contradicted your hypothesis going in? Surprises are often the most valuable output.

Stage 6: State the decisions or hypotheses

The synthesis should support concrete next steps. Examples:

Read the full file on GitHub · 126 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 · 126 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 9768b5566193

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interview-synthesis is a skill published in the GitHub repository redhuntlabs/wizard (9 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 1,096 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.