interview-me SKILL.md skillA
interview-me from naveedharri/benai-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add naveedharri/benai-skills/interview-me@git:20260916.a3b1e15Pins git:20260916.a3b1e15 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- naveedharri/benai-skills
- Path
plugins/all-skills/skills/interview-me/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260916.a3b1e15, committed Sep 16, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 26, 2026
- Size
- 2,894 bytes
- Repository stars
- 78
- License
- MIT
Interview the user one question at a time before starting a big or fuzzy task, then write the brief and execute it. Use when the user says "interview me", "brief me", "help me brief this", "I don't know where to start", or hands over a large task with obvious gaps in the request. Based on the interview pattern Anthropic recommends in the Claude Fable 5 field guide.
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 Most briefs fail because the missing context is in the user's head and nobody asked for it. This skill pulls it out before any work starts, using the pattern Anthropic recommends: interview one question at a time, prioritising the questions whose answers would change the plan. Source: A field guide to Claude Fable 5 (https://claude.com/blog/a-field-guide-to-claude-fable-finding-your-unknowns). ## Process 1. **Read before you ask.** Look at whatever is already available: the folder, the files the user mentioned, recent related work. Never ask a question you could answer yourself by reading. Questions you burned on discoverable facts are questions you cannot spend on real unknowns. 2. **Interview, one question at a time.** Ask 5 to 7 questions maximum, one per turn, in plain language. Prioritise questions whose answer would change the shape of the work: the audience, the decision this output feeds, what already exists, what must not change. Push past vague answers: if the user says "make it better," ask what better looks like and how you would both know it happened. 3. **Cover four things by the end of the interview:** …
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How to install
mdr add naveedharri/benai-skills/interview-me@sha256:b1323402af15ac52The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260916.a3b1e15, 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_sdeiudkjl4w3hhoc)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Aug 26, 2026 and Sep 16, 2026, about one every 21 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260916.a3b1e15 latest | 2026-09-16 | a3b1e15 | 2,894 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260826.76c256c | 2026-08-26 | 76c256c | 2,863 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 (2894 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
naveedharri/benai-skills · 78 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-09 · branch develop
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_sdeiudkjl4w3hhoc GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=naveedharri/benai-skills/interview-me GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b1323402af15ac52bee89b6c93f908d95194c5c3743a10a966f8004987eb3840
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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