deep-interview

deep-interview is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from scalarian/oh-my-codex. It costs 22 tokens per session (485 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A focused question-and-answer process that turns an unclear request into a written specification ready for planning or coding.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a request describes an outcome without enough detail, when the user is still deciding what they want, or when scope and non-goals are unclear.
Why use it?
It removes ambiguity about the goal, scope, exclusions, and decision boundaries before implementation begins. This reduces the risk of expensive rework caused by wrong assumptions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: $skill-name invocation.

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/scalarian/oh-my-codex/deep-interview
Any agent
npx skills add scalarian/oh-my-codex --skill deep-interview
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/scalarian/oh-my-codex

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 485 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 5.1 $0.00022 $0.00485
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00243
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00097
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00049

Measured 6d ago against content hash b13c5b95713b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 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.

skills/deep-interview/SKILL.md · 74 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Deep Interview

Purpose

Use $deep-interview to turn a fuzzy request into an execution-ready spec. This is not generic brainstorming. It is a focused clarification loop that removes ambiguity before planning or coding.

Use When

  • the request describes outcomes, not behavior
  • the user is still discovering what they want
  • scope, non-goals, or decision boundaries are unclear
  • a wrong assumption would create expensive rework

Do Not Use When

  • the request already names files, symbols, and acceptance criteria
  • the user explicitly wants immediate execution and the risk is low
  • the only missing work is architectural decomposition, not intent clarity

Execution Policy

  • Ask one question at a time.
  • Ask only the highest-leverage unresolved question.
  • Use repo facts before asking the user about codebase internals.
  • Force clarity on non-goals and decision boundaries before handing off.
  • Keep the interview moving toward a written artifact, not an endless conversation.

Question Order

  1. Why does this need to exist?
  2. What should be true when it is done?
  3. How far should it go?
  4. What should explicitly stay out?
  5. What may OMX decide without checking again?
  6. What constraints or preferences are hard?

Workflow

  1. Read current .omx/ artifacts and inspect the repo if this is brownfield work.
  2. Capture the current hypothesis in .omx/plans/<phase>-requirements.md.
  3. Run a one-question loop until these are explicit:
    • goal
    • in-scope
    • out-of-scope
    • acceptance criteria
    • decision boundaries
  4. Update:
    • .omx/plans/<phase>-requirements.md
    • .omx/research/summary.md
    • .omx/state/planning-state.json
  5. Hand off to $plan when the spec is concrete.

Output Standard

The finished interview should leave behind:

  • clear goal
  • explicit non-goals
  • decision boundaries
  • testable acceptance criteria
  • constraints that downstream execution must honor

Stop Conditions

Do not hand off while either of these is missing:

Read the full file on GitHub · 74 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 · 74 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A b13c5b95713b

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deep-interview is a skill published in the GitHub repository scalarian/oh-my-codex (73 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 485 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 2026-08-30.

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