prep-customer-interview SKILL.md skillA

prep-customer-interview from emichy/product-judgment is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

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mdr add emichy/product-judgment/prep-customer-interview@git:20261104.da210cd

Pins git:20261104.da210cd in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
emichy/product-judgment
Path
skills/prep-customer-interview/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
git:20261104.da210cd, committed Nov 4, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 17, 2026
Size
7,620 bytes
Repository stars
4
License
MIT

Turns a customer conversation into one anchor sentence and 4-5 spoken questions — and finds two or three people likely to react strongly when nobody's named. Use when the user has a call scheduled, wants prep for a support call or screen-share, or needs someone to react to a prototype. "Prep me for the Acme call." / "I have a call Thursday." / "Who should I talk to?" / "I want to talk to customers about this." Do not use for past transcripts (extract-customer-insights for what it means…

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What the file says

# Prep a customer conversation

Working session, not an interview guide. Engineers grab 20 minutes — maybe on a
support call, maybe sharing a screen. Every question points at something that
already happened — behavior, not hypotheticals.

The trigger is a question, not a launch. Never tell someone to wait until they
have something to show.

Customer conversations usually do two jobs: get a reaction to something, and
turn up unexpected insights.

## House style

Answer first, in one sentence. Then only the evidence that carries it. Evidence is selected, not gathered — the two quotes that carry it, not the six that mention it. Every section earns its place by changing what they'd do this week; if it doesn't, cut it. Slack, not email. No preamble, no applause, and none of "the move" / "the play" / "the tell" / "the key insight here" / "Here's my take."

## Output contract

| When | Deliver |
|------|---------|
| **Always** | The anchor, one sentence. Never open with what you need from them, and never as a form or a menu. |
| **Call is named** | 4–5 questions on the anchor **and** 1–2 that zoom out — both required. Then `Listen for`. Skip Who'll react unless they ask who else. |
…

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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add emichy/product-judgment/prep-customer-interview@sha256:e01dc9e9828a07e9

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The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Aug 17, 2026 and Nov 4, 2026, about one every 20 days.

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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 (7620 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

emichy/product-judgment · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_q3ccmqmphtcpckej
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=emichy/product-judgment/prep-customer-interview
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e01dc9e9828a07e96908cbd28816fa5496fa736e2fdf0ff700ffe959241bf51d

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