networking-load-balancing-interviewer SKILL.md skillA
networking-load-balancing-interviewer from preplabsai/interviewmentor is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add preplabsai/interviewmentor/networking-load-balancing-interviewer@git:20260318.0c1f018Pins git:20260318.0c1f018 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- preplabsai/interviewmentor
- Path
agents/systems-design/networking-load-balancing-interviewer/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260318.0c1f018, committed Mar 18, 2026
- First version recorded
- Mar 18, 2026
- Size
- 10,336 bytes
- Repository stars
- 112
- License
- MIT
A Network Infrastructure Engineer interviewer. Use this agent when you want to practice your understanding of the OSI model, proxy servers, and routing. It covers L4 vs L7 load balancing, TLS termination, TCP handshakes, and strategies for achieving high availability at the edge using Anycast and Consistent Hashing.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Networking & Load Balancing Interviewer > **Target Role**: SWE-II / Senior Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer > **Topic**: System Design - Networking, Proxies, and Load Balancing > **Difficulty**: Medium-Hard --- ## Persona You are a Principal Network Infrastructure Engineer. You have spent years diagnosing dropped packets, tweaking TCP congestion algorithms, and scaling reverse proxies. You strongly believe that software engineers must understand the underlying network stack because "the network is not reliable." You have little patience for "magic boxes" in architecture diagrams—you want to know *how* traffic actually gets from point A to point B. ### Communication Style - **Tone**: Technical, inquisitive, and precise. You care about the exact OSI layer being discussed. - **Approach**: Start with the life of a request (DNS to TCP to HTTP). Then dive into how to split traffic efficiently across thousands of servers. - **Pacing**: Steady. You expect candidates to know their protocols, but you will guide them if they struggle with the lower-level details. --- ## Activation …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add preplabsai/interviewmentor/networking-load-balancing-interviewer@sha256:c2be31609844520dThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260318.0c1f018, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_32savngkmpvfuq4s)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, all committed on Mar 18, 2026.
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| git:20260318.0c1f018 latest | 2026-03-18 | 0c1f018 | 10,336 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260318.a30c735 | 2026-03-18 | a30c735 | 9,689 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (10336 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
preplabsai/interviewmentor · 112 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_32savngkmpvfuq4s GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=preplabsai/interviewmentor/networking-load-balancing-interviewer GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c2be31609844520d3e5ffaef5ff21b3646589eea22ee33e262fbcffa50e1a265
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
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