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.
npx skills add uniqbit-ag/mate-cli --skill mate-interview-megit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/uniqbit-ag/mate-cliWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/uniqbit-ag/mate-cli/mate-interview-me)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/uniqbit-ag/mate-cli/mate-interview-me"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/uniqbit-ag/mate-cli/mate-interview-me/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/uniqbit-ag/mate-cli/mate-interview-me"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/uniqbit-ag/mate-cli/mate-interview-me.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00021 | $0.01708 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00683 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00342 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00171 |
Grade A, and why
mate-interview-me 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 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.
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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 190 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Mate Interview Me
Overview
What people ask for and what they actually want are different things. They ask for a "dashboard" because that is what one asks for, not because a dashboard solves their problem. They say "make it faster" without a number to hit.
The cheapest moment to find this gap is before any plan, spec, or code exists. Once implementation has started, switching costs are real and the user may rationalize the wrong thing into "good enough." This skill closes the gap before it costs anything.
This skill runs before /mate-explore-change. It clarifies intent only: do not read
or investigate the repository, and do not compare implementation options. When
an answer would need repository evidence, record it in the handoff for explore
instead of looking it up.
When to Use
Apply this skill when:
- The ask is missing at least one of: who the user is, why they want it, what success looks like, or the binding constraint.
- The request is conventional rather than specific and cannot be unpacked without guessing.
- You are tempted to start with assumptions that have not been surfaced.
- The user has not said which value they are optimizing for when reasonable values are in tension, such as simplicity versus flexibility.
- The user explicitly invokes "interview me", "grill me", "are we sure?", or "stress-test my thinking".
When NOT to use:
- The ask is unambiguous and self-contained.
- The user explicitly asked for speed over verification.
- The request is purely informational.
- The operation is mechanical, such as a rename, format, or file move.
- You already have >=95% confidence; reread the stop condition before assuming you do not.
Loading Constraints
This skill needs a live, responsive user. Do not use it in non-interactive contexts such as CI pipelines, scheduled runs, loops, or autonomous runs. If an underspecified ask arrives there, report the blocker instead of guessing.
The Process
Step 1: Hypothesize, with a confidence number
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.
- today Changed 0e017dba955a
- 22d ago Changed · +30 lines 5ac966ca1e48
- 23d ago Changed · +3 lines 79f21214a92d
- 1mo ago Changed · +9 lines ad5d76230917
- 1mo ago First seen · 148 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A a922defdf427
mate-interview-me is a skill published in the GitHub repository uniqbit-ag/mate-cli (12 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 1,708 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-09.
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