expert-interview SKILL.md skillA
expert-interview from skillmedev/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add skillmedev/skills/expert-interview@git:20261005.bea4ea5Pins git:20261005.bea4ea5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- skillmedev/skills
- Path
skills/expert-interview/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261005.bea4ea5, committed Oct 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 5, 2026
- Size
- 7,521 bytes
- Repository stars
- 19
- License
- MIT
Designs an expert-interview package - sourcing criteria for the right experts, a funneled discussion guide with timing, open-then-probe question design, laddering, and a neutral probe kit - that extracts honest insight without leading the witness. Use when someone asks "help me write questions for an expert call", "build a discussion guide", "prep me for this expert network interview", or is planning customer-development or domain-expert conversations. Do NOT use for designing a full…
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
# Expert Interview An hour with the right expert can replace weeks of desk research - or produce nothing but confirmation of what the interviewer already believed. The costly failure this skill prevents is the leading interview: questions that carry the hypothesis inside them, so the expert politely agrees and the team ships on evidence it manufactured itself. A good guide is a structure, not a script. ## Inputs to collect 1. **Learning objectives**: what decision the interviews inform, and the 3-5 things that must be learned. Separate "must learn" from "nice to know" so sections can be cut under time pressure. 2. **The hypothesis being tested**, if any - written down so it can be deliberately kept out of the questions. 3. **Interview length** (default 45-60 minutes) and format (call, in person). 4. **How many experts** and what mix of vantage points (practitioner, buyer, former insider, adjacent-market operator). 5. **Recording and consent constraints**, and any compliance rules (expert networks prohibit asking for confidential or MNPI material - respect this in question design). ## Operating procedure ### Step 1: Source the right experts …
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How to install
mdr add skillmedev/skills/expert-interview@sha256:c2b8e42844a21252The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261005.bea4ea5, 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_6mn77otp4vcquryf)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jul 5, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026, about one every 46 days.
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| git:20261005.bea4ea5 latest | 2026-10-05 | bea4ea5 | 7,521 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260705.a28c4ce | 2026-07-05 | a28c4ce | 7,483 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260705.acb5571 | 2026-07-05 | acb5571 | 7,523 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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Source
skillmedev/skills · 19 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-13 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_6mn77otp4vcquryf GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=skillmedev/skills/expert-interview GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c2b8e42844a21252e4bed7ae9ff5262d761cbf5a2bf503b89ae738303c6184ea
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.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.