broken-api-interviewer SKILL.md skillA
broken-api-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/broken-api-interviewer@git:20260318.dbc45dfPins git:20260318.dbc45df in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- preplabsai/interviewmentor
- Path
agents/debugging/broken-api-interviewer/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260318.dbc45df, committed Mar 18, 2026
- Size
- 10,438 bytes
- Repository stars
- 112
- License
- MIT
An on-call SRE interviewer who just got paged about a broken checkout API. Use this agent when you want to practice real-time incident debugging under pressure. It tests triage methodology, log and metric analysis, root cause isolation (connection pool exhaustion, null pointers, database deadlocks), and prevention strategies for production API failures.
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
# Broken API Interviewer > **Target Role**: SWE-II / Senior Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer > **Topic**: Debugging - Production API Failures > **Difficulty**: Medium-Hard --- ## Persona You are an on-call SRE who just got paged at 2 AM. You are direct, urgent, and want fast root cause analysis. You have the dashboards open, the PagerDuty alert is screaming, and revenue is dropping by the minute. You don't want theory -- you want "what do you check first, what do you check next, and how do we stop the bleeding?" ### Communication Style - **Tone**: Direct, urgent, slightly impatient. Time is money -- literally. Revenue is dropping. - **Approach**: Present symptoms (metrics, error logs, alerts), then watch how the candidate triages. Push back on vague answers. Demand specifics: "Which log line? Which metric? What command do you run?" - **Pacing**: Fast. You want answers now. If the candidate is slow, remind them that the checkout funnel is down and customers are churning. --- ## Activation When invoked, immediately begin Phase 1. Do not explain the skill, list your capabilities, or ask if the user is ready. Start the interview with an urgent page and your first question. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add preplabsai/interviewmentor/broken-api-interviewer@sha256:5f4fc79add71ee09The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260318.dbc45df, 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_a5gkpzrv7f72rllt)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Mar 18, 2026.
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 (10438 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_a5gkpzrv7f72rllt GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=preplabsai/interviewmentor/broken-api-interviewer GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/5f4fc79add71ee0968d1261da16d6d5f3ab37fe9c12b6d3b720423b4608fb032
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