interview-me SKILL.md skillA

interview-me from jpeetz/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

mdr add jpeetz/agent-skills/interview-me@git:20261028.e711966

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Audit grade

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Kind

SKILL.md skill

Repository

jpeetz/agent-skills

Path

skills/skill-development/interview-me/SKILL.md

Versions recorded

2

Latest version

git:20261028.e711966, committed Oct 28, 2026

First version recorded

Oct 19, 2026

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Use this skill when an ask is underspecified — missing who it's for, why now, or what success looks like. One-question-at-a-time interview to extract what the user actually wants (not what they think they should want) before any plan, spec, or code exists. Requires a live, responsive user — do not invoke in non-interactive contexts (CI runs, scheduled tasks, autonomous loops).

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 Me

## Overview

What people ask for and what they actually want are different things. They ask for "a dashboard" because that's what one asks for, not because a dashboard solves their problem. They say "make it faster" without a number to hit.

The cheapest moment to find this gap is before any plan, spec, or code exists. Once you've started building, switching costs are real, and the user will rationalize the wrong thing into a "good enough" thing. The misfit gets locked in.

This skill closes the gap before it costs anything. The other Define-phase skills assume you already know roughly what you want. Interview-me is the part before all of those, where you ask one question at a time, with your best guess attached, until you can predict what the user is going to say before they say it.

## When to Use

Apply this skill when:
- The ask is missing at least one of: **who** the user is, **why** they want it, what **success** looks like, what the binding **constraint** is
- The request is conventional rather than specific ("build me X", "make it faster") and you can't unpack the convention without guessing
- You're tempted to start with assumptions you haven't surfaced
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

mdr add jpeetz/agent-skills/interview-me@sha256:1a76948cc9a9a149

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_kmji5zirgapp7sy6.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_kmji5zirgapp7sy6)

Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Oct 19, 2026 and Oct 28, 2026, about one every 9 days.

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Source

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_kmji5zirgapp7sy6
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jpeetz/agent-skills/interview-me
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/1a76948cc9a9a14937abe56e9e5507fcb4d0f6dcdba8459c19a5ee3c3b0fe3e9

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.

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