mock-interview

mock-interview is a skill for Claude Code from tmargolis/career-navigator. It costs 94 tokens per session (1,206 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A practice interview session with selectable question style, interview stage, and interviewer attitude, such as recruiter, technical, panel, or final interview.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to practise recruiter, hiring-manager, technical, panel, executive, or final interviews in guided, random, or adaptive modes.
Why use it?
It lets you rehearse realistic interview situations and receive practice suited to the kind of conversation you expect. Settings can be chosen for a specific application or general practice.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the career-navigator plugin — 46 skills, 3 MCP servers 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/tmargolis/career-navigator/mock-interview
Any agent
npx skills add tmargolis/career-navigator --skill mock-interview
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tmargolis/career-navigator

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install career-navigator, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 46 skills, 3 MCP servers.

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README.md
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Per session 94 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,206 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 $0.00094 $0.01206
Opus 5 $0.00047 $0.00603
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00241
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00121

Measured 6d ago against content hash a6e6a9508c65, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mock-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/mock-interview/SKILL.md · 79 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 79 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Workflow

1. Resolve {user_dir} and gate

Application data uses the split layout defined in references/tracker-schema.md — read it before any read or write.

Same as prep-interview: require CareerNavigator/profile.md, ExperienceLibrary.json, and tracker.json unless the user only wants a generic mock with pasted JD (then still need profile + EL minimum; create minimal context note if tracker empty).

2. Parameters (ask once if missing)

Parameter Values
mock_mode guided | random | adaptive
interview_stage recruiter | hiring_manager | technical | panel | executive | final
vibe supportive | neutral | challenging | antagonistic | bored
target application_id or company + role (optional for generic practice)
2.1 When mode or vibe are not specified — system selection

The model must choose a concrete mock_mode and vibe before starting—never leave them implicit in the opening line.

  • mock_mode (if user omitted): use adaptive (default for learning and feedback). If the user asked for “surprise me,” “mix it up,” or equivalent, pick random at random and state that you did.
  • vibe (if user omitted): use neutral. If the user asked for “surprise” / “mix it up,” pick one vibe at random from the five allowed values and state it.
  • interview_stage (if user omitted): infer from the tracker.json summary row for the active application — its status, latest_stage, and latest_stage_date give the next likely stage without opening anything (e.g. phone_screen / latest_stage: "recruiter"recruiter; otherwise hiring_manager). Read the row's detail_file (applications/<application_id>.json) only when the user asks to practice against the actual interview history, and only for that one application. If no application context, default hiring_manager.
  • Announce in one line before the first question, e.g.:
    Selected: mode=adaptive, vibe=neutral, stage=hiring_manager (defaults — say if you want different).

Read the full file on GitHub · 79 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 · 79 lines · 94 tokens per session scan A a6e6a9508c65

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mock-interview is a skill published in the GitHub repository tmargolis/career-navigator (13 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 94 tokens to every session and 1,206 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 2026-08-30.

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