interview-guide

interview-guide is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Waddling-Penguin/mogkit. It costs 3 tokens per session (1,379 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A discovery-interview guide generator that reads gaps in a research graph and creates open-ended questions about past behaviour. Discovery interviews are conversations used to learn about people's real problems and habits.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare non-leading interview questions, with each question linked to a specific research gap.
Why use it?
It focuses interviews on the unknowns most likely to change the team's understanding instead of producing generic questions.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to prepare non-leading interview questions, with each question linked to a specific research gap.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/waddling-penguin/mogkit/interview-guide
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.

Any agent
npx skills add Waddling-Penguin/mogkit --skill interview-guide
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Waddling-Penguin/mogkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 3 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,379 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00003 $0.01379
Opus 5.5 $0.00001 $0.00552
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00001 $0.00276
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00138

Measured 1mo ago against content hash c859b71cbee1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

interview-guide 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 1mo 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/discovery/interview-guide/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.

Purpose

A discovery interview is most valuable when the interviewer walks in knowing what the graph currently doesn't know. This skill reads the graph and produces a guide pointed at the gaps that would change the most if filled — not a generic discovery questionnaire that any PM could have written.

Each question is tied to a named gap in the graph, so the PM understands why it's on the list. The questions follow interview-craft rules: they ask about past behaviour, not hypothetical futures; they are open-ended and non-leading; they avoid pitching the product.

It does NOT script a sales conversation, prepare answers, or anticipate what the interviewee "should" say. The interviewer enters open; the guide just makes sure they enter pointed at the right gaps.

Procedure

  1. Read graph/graph.json. If it does not exist, tell the PM to run graphify first and stop.
  2. Read meta.health. Cold-start branch: if health === "thin", state that on a thin corpus the gaps are everywhere — the guide should focus on the highest-leverage first gap (usually: which segment has the most weight on the team's current direction?). One well-targeted interview against a thin corpus is more valuable than a long guide chasing every gap.
  3. Identify the load-bearing gaps in the graph. Sources of gaps: a. Segments named in the corpus but represented by ≤1 source. b. Assumption nodes adjacent to a major decision (i.e. the PRD intent doc or memo references them). c. Pains or Needs supported by only one source — single-source pains pointing at scope are high-leverage to triangulate. d. contradicts edges — the graph itself records that two sources disagree; resolving the contradiction often unlocks the decision.
  4. If the PM has named a specific segment or persona to interview, filter the gaps to those that segment alone can fill. If not, pick the top 3 load-bearing gaps in the graph regardless of segment.
  5. For each chosen gap, write 1–3 interview questions. Rules:
    • Behavioural, not hypothetical. Ask about what happened, not what would you do if. Bad: "Would you use feature X?" Good: "Walk me through the last time you tried to do X — what did you actually do?"
    • Open, not leading. Bad: "Don't you find the import frustrating?" Good: "Tell me about importing your previous data — what was the experience like?"
    • JTBD-anchored. Frame around the user's job, not the product. "When you were trying to set up the team, what did you need to figure out?" over "What do you think of our onboarding?"
    • One question at a time. No compound questions.
  6. Add a short warm-up section (2–3 questions to set context and relax the interviewee) and a short close section (a single "is there anything I didn't ask that I should have?" closer).
  7. Emit the output contract.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 126 lines · 3 tokens per session scan A c859b71cbee1

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interview-guide is a skill published in the GitHub repository Waddling-Penguin/mogkit (5 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 3 tokens to every session and 1,379 once invoked, about $0.0000 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 2026-08-31.

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