interview-methodology

interview-methodology is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from YoungjaeDev/my-claude-plugins. It costs 122 tokens per session (3,298 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured method for interviewing users, gathering requirements, and testing a plan before implementation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for in-depth user interviews, specification work, requirements gathering, and thorough review of an existing implementation plan.
Why use it?
It helps uncover needs, constraints, and edge cases before coding begins.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the docs plugin — 8 skills, 3 commands 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/youngjaedev/my-claude-plugins/interview-methodology
Any agent
npx skills add YoungjaeDev/my-claude-plugins --skill interview-methodology
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/YoungjaeDev/my-claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install docs, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 3 commands.

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README.md
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Per session 122 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,298 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 $0.00122 $0.03298
Opus 5 $0.00061 $0.01649
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00660
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00330

Measured today against content hash df246ca279dc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

interview-methodology 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.

plugins/docs/skills/interview-methodology/SKILL.md · 328 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 328 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Interview Methodology

Cross-runtime interactive input

Every question below runs through a capability-aware interactive-input gate, not one hardcoded tool. Read each AskUserQuestion mention as this gate:

  • Claude Code: use AskUserQuestion.
  • Codex: use request_user_input when that tool is exposed. When it is not, ask ONE concise blocking question only where a wrong assumption would be costly; otherwise proceed on a documented safe default and state the assumption.

Full policy: AGENTS.md → "Cross-runtime interactive input policy".

A comprehensive framework for conducting thorough requirement-gathering interviews that uncover hidden needs, constraints, and edge cases.

Trigger Examples

Critical Rules

These govern a full interview once you've decided one is warranted. They are explicitly relaxed by the two scoping sections that follow: "When NOT to Interview" (whether to interview at all) and the lightweight close in "Interview Completion" (how much to write). When those apply, they override rules 3-5 below.

  1. Use the interactive-input gate for all questions (Claude AskUserQuestion; see "Cross-runtime interactive input") - never just ask in plain text
  2. Questions must NOT be obvious - avoid basic questions the user has already answered
  3. Don't stop a full interview early - once committed to a full (breadth-first) interview, cover it; don't bail after 2-3 questions. (Doesn't apply when "When NOT to Interview" already capped the scope at 2-3 targeted questions.)
  4. Probe deeper on substantive answers - each response can spawn follow-ups; in depth-first mode this is the primary loop. (Not a mandate to follow up on every trivial confirmation.)
  5. Write a spec file for substantial interviews - large/multi-decision interviews persist a spec; small/focused ones use the lightweight close instead (see "Interview Completion").

Read the full file on GitHub · 328 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. today Changed · +4 lines · +40 tokens per session df246ca279dc
  2. 5d ago First seen · 324 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A 9fcd83ed3e1c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

interview-methodology is a skill published in the GitHub repository YoungjaeDev/my-claude-plugins (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 122 tokens to every session and 3,298 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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