hyper-interview

A requirements-clarification interview that asks focused questions one at a time and records the answers as a written specification.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to clarify goals, constraints, and expected results before planning a coding task. It saves the resulting specification in the project's .hyperclaude/specs/ folder.
Why use it?
It prevents development from starting with guesses about what the user wants. It turns an unclear idea into a shared description that can guide research and planning.

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/zeikar/hyperclaude/hyper-interview
Any agent
npx skills add zeikar/hyperclaude --skill hyper-interview
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zeikar/hyperclaude

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 138 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,459 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 $0.00138 $0.02459
Opus 5 $0.00069 $0.01229
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00492
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00246

Measured 2d ago against content hash 19d8e3a06096, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hyper-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.

skills/hyper-interview/SKILL.md · 136 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 136 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

hyper-interview

Requirements-clarification gate. Turns a vague idea into a clear spec through a short Socratic interview — one targeted question at a time, aimed at whichever requirement dimension is least clear — then writes the spec to .hyperclaude/specs/<YYYYMMDD-HHMM>-<slug>.md. The spec is the front-end input to hyper-research / hyper-plan; the slug it mints is derived from the idea text the same way those skills derive theirs, so handing the same idea forward keeps the research → plan → plan-review trace linked.

Claude-only — no Codex. Critique belongs downstream, where it has something concrete to critique (hyper-plan-review on the plan, hyper-code-review on the diff). This gate's job is clarity, not review: get the requirements right so the plan isn't built on guesses. Anything off in the spec is caught when the plan is reviewed.

This is the light interview — the brainstorming-style conversational flow with deep-interview's weakest-dimension targeting, minus the heavy machinery (no numeric ambiguity scoring, no topology/ontology bookkeeping, no challenge-mode state machine, no resume).

When to use

  • User typed /hyperclaude:hyper-interview <idea>.
  • The idea is vague or under-specified and jumping straight to a plan would guess at scope ("interview me", "ask me what you need", "not sure exactly what I want", "make sure you understand before building").

Skip when:

  • The request is already concrete (file paths, function names, acceptance criteria) — go to hyper-plan, or dispatch implementer for one step (pass run_in_background: false for the result inline).
  • The user pasted a PRD / spec / plan and wants it executed — use hyper-plan / hyper-implement.
  • The user says "just do it" / "skip the questions" — respect it. Don't interrogate; proceed to the work they asked for.

Read the full file on GitHub · 136 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 · 136 lines · 138 tokens per session scan A 19d8e3a06096

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hyper-interview is a skill published in the GitHub repository zeikar/hyperclaude (3 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 138 tokens to every session and 2,459 once invoked, about $0.0007 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.