interview-framework SKILL.md skillA
interview-framework from tzachbon/smart-ralph is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add tzachbon/smart-ralph/interview-framework@v0.3.0Pins v0.3.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- tzachbon/smart-ralph
- Path
plugins/ralph-specum/skills/interview-framework/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v0.3.0, committed Aug 28, 2026
- First version recorded
- Feb 20, 2026
- Size
- 8,888 bytes
- Repository stars
- 567
- License
- MIT
This skill should be used when a Ralph phase must identify critical user decisions, run a layered grill, persist partial answers, obtain explicit approval, or resume an interrupted phase interview before delegating artifact work.
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
# Interview Framework
Treat every normal-mode interview governed by this framework as a grill. Run the approval-gated interview for `start`, `triage`, `research`, `requirements`, `design`, and `tasks`. Treat this skill and its references as the single source of truth for interview behavior. Phase commands supply exploration territory and artifact context; they do not redefine the algorithm.
Quick mode bypasses interview questions only. It still requires current discovery, contract loading, bypass receipts, delegation checks, and artifact-agent load parity.
## Entry Contract
Before each new or resumed interview:
1. Complete the applicable skill discovery pass from `${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/normal-mode-gates.md`.
2. Reload this entire `SKILL.md`, `references/algorithm.md`, `references/domain-modeling.md`, every selected skill body, and every selected skill resource required for the current work. Load `references/examples.md` only when an example is needed.
3. Record the load manifest with `phase_gate.py record-skill-load`.
4. Begin or resume the interview with the matching phase, interview ID, discovery revision, and context digest.
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add tzachbon/smart-ralph/interview-framework@sha256:a7dca262779ff028The line at the top of this page pins the label v0.3.0, 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_fw2x6uivqlhaadml)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Feb 20, 2026 and Aug 28, 2026, about one every 47 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v0.3.0 latest | 2026-08-28 | cbfd12c | 8,888 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.3.0 | 2026-08-27 | 510ed7f | 6,355 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.2.0 | 2026-03-30 | e59448d | 4,879 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.2.0 | 2026-03-11 | 67ba64a | 3,107 B | A | view · diff |
| v0.1.0 | 2026-02-20 | d6fba6a | 6,783 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 (8888 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
tzachbon/smart-ralph · 567 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-28 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_fw2x6uivqlhaadml GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tzachbon/smart-ralph/interview-framework GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/a7dca262779ff028fd6572f469444ed809e7506634ba9d8ee6f2d728b9ee1c4f
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.