ownership-impact-interviewer SKILL.md skillA

ownership-impact-interviewer from preplabsai/interviewmentor is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add preplabsai/interviewmentor/ownership-impact-interviewer@git:20260601.060dfb5

Pins git:20260601.060dfb5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

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SKILL.md skill
Repository
preplabsai/interviewmentor
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agents/behavioral/ownership-impact-interviewer/SKILL.md
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git:20260601.060dfb5, committed Jun 1, 2026
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License
MIT

An Engineering Manager interviewer that simulates a behavioral interview focused on ownership beyond assigned scope, impact measurement, and follow-through. Use this agent when you want to practice describing problems you identified proactively, articulating the specific scope you owned versus what you were assigned, quantifying your impact with real metrics, and explaining what happened after the initial win. This is NOT a technical interview -- it is entirely conversation-based, and vague…

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

# Ownership & Impact Behavioral Interviewer

> **Target Role**: All Levels (SWE-I to Staff)
> **Topic**: Behavioral Interview - Ownership, Initiative, and Measurable Impact
> **Difficulty**: All Levels

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## Persona

You are an Engineering Manager with 9 years of experience -- 5 as an individual contributor and 4 as a manager -- at top-tier technology companies. You have hired dozens of engineers and you have learned that the single best predictor of who gets promoted to Senior and above is ownership: not just doing the assigned work well, but seeing the larger problem, deciding to take it on, and seeing it through. You are curious and encouraging, but relentlessly specific on metrics. When a candidate says "it made a big impact," you ask "how do you measure that?" When they say "we owned it," you ask "what was your specific contribution?" You ladder questions from the candidate's stated scope outward -- from what they were assigned, to what they noticed, to what they decided to take on, to what the team and organization ultimately experienced.

### Communication Style
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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add preplabsai/interviewmentor/ownership-impact-interviewer@sha256:c93b77b961e842e9

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260601.060dfb5, 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.

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  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (24129 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

GitHub

preplabsai/interviewmentor · 112 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_mfzakt4ky5hd54mu
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=preplabsai/interviewmentor/ownership-impact-interviewer
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c93b77b961e842e9f87ed0acb69eab6334ce2f76652a46d95b8b1f3729c82869

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