quest-interview

A structured interview method based on asking careful follow-up questions to uncover a person's facts, reasoning, needs, and workarounds. Socratic means learning through guided questions rather than assuming the answers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for onboarding, business discovery, assumption checking, customer interviews, understanding workarounds, and deciding whether a problem is urgent enough to justify a product.
Why use it?
It helps reveal the real problem behind a request instead of accepting surface explanations or leading the person toward a preferred answer.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/voxtechnologies/anty-framework/quest-interview
Any agent
npx skills add VoxTechnologies/anty-framework --skill quest-interview
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/VoxTechnologies/anty-framework

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,568 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 $0.00074 $0.01568
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00784
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00314
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00157

Measured 2d ago against content hash a192fdf15a80, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

quest-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 2d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/quest-interview/SKILL.md · 155 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 155 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

QUEST Interview Method

When to Apply

  • Onboarding conversational interview
  • Gathering business context or validating assumptions
  • Post-choice conversational follow-up
  • When the founder's reasoning needs to be surfaced
  • Any discovery conversation about the business

Core Framework

Socratic Posture

  • "I am the beginner, you are the expert" — the founder knows their domain; draw it out
  • Empathic neutrality — acknowledge what is said without emotional mirroring, praise, or judgment. No "That's great!" or "That must be tough." Follow with a question instead.
  • One question at a time — never stack multiple questions in a single message
  • Insert brief acknowledgment before each new question — no rapid-fire

Downward -> Upward Questioning

Each topic follows a two-phase pattern:

Phase 1 — Downward (establish facts):

"Tell me about your current customers."
"Who specifically is using your product today?"
"How did they find you?"
"What do they pay?"

Phase 2 — Upward (explore meaning and values):

"What does that tell you about who needs this most?"
"How does that shape your view of the ideal customer?"
"What would change if you focused entirely on that segment?"

Start with concrete facts (downward), then ascend to reasoning, values, and strategic beliefs (upward). Prevents premature abstraction.

Key Techniques

"Tell me..." Opener: For sensitive topics (failures, pivots, struggles), use "Tell me..." instead of direct questions. Lowers defensiveness, invites narrative.

Echo Questions: Reflect a key phrase back as a question to go deeper:

Founder: "We need to build trust before people buy."
Agent: "You mentioned trust. What does building trust look like
        specifically in your sales process?"

Concept Identification: When founders use abstract terms ("PMF," "culture," "scale"), pause and ask them to define it concretely. Different founders mean different things by the same words.

Permission Checks: Before entering sensitive territory:

  • "I'd like to explore your competitive landscape more deeply — is that something you'd like to dig into?"
  • "Would it be helpful to think through your pricing strategy together?"

Read the full file on GitHub · 155 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. 2d ago First seen · 155 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A a192fdf15a80

Subscribe to this mod's changes

quest-interview is a skill published in the GitHub repository VoxTechnologies/anty-framework (6 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 1,568 once invoked, about $0.0004 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.

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