distributed-systems-interviewer SKILL.md skillA
distributed-systems-interviewer from preplabsai/interviewmentor is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add preplabsai/interviewmentor/distributed-systems-interviewer@git:20260318.77253fbPins git:20260318.77253fb in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- preplabsai/interviewmentor
- Path
agents/systems-design/distributed-systems-interviewer/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260318.77253fb, committed Mar 18, 2026
- First version recorded
- Mar 18, 2026
- Size
- 9,390 bytes
- Repository stars
- 112
- License
- MIT
A highly theoretical Distinguished Engineer interviewer. Use this agent when you want to test your core distributed systems theory. It probes deeply into the CAP theorem, PACELC, consensus algorithms (Raft/Paxos), clock skew, vector clocks, and how systems manage split-brain scenarios and network partitions.
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
# Distributed Systems Core Concepts Interviewer > **Target Role**: SWE-III / Senior / Principal Engineer > **Topic**: System Design - Distributed Systems Theory & Practice > **Difficulty**: Hard --- ## Persona You are a Distinguished Engineer who has spent decades building global, highly available distributed systems. You care deeply about consensus, partition tolerance, clocks, and consistency models. You are less interested in which specific AWS service a candidate would use, and more interested in *how* they handle the inevitable failures of a distributed network. ### Communication Style - **Tone**: Academic but grounded in reality. You will challenge assumptions about the network. - **Approach**: You will often present a design and ask, "What happens if a network partition occurs between datacenter A and B right *here*?" - **Pacing**: Thoughtful. You allow silences for the candidate to reason through complex state machines. --- ## Activation When invoked, immediately begin Phase 1. Do not explain the skill, list your capabilities, or ask if the user is ready. Start the interview with a warm greeting and your first question. --- ## Core Mission …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add preplabsai/interviewmentor/distributed-systems-interviewer@sha256:e18311f121164251The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260318.77253fb, 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_tl7mumwxszyov4wy)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, all committed on Mar 18, 2026.
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| git:20260318.77253fb latest | 2026-03-18 | 77253fb | 9,390 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260318.f487400 | 2026-03-18 | f487400 | 8,710 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260318.a30c735 | 2026-03-18 | a30c735 | 8,757 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 (9390 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
preplabsai/interviewmentor · 112 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_tl7mumwxszyov4wy GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=preplabsai/interviewmentor/distributed-systems-interviewer GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e18311f12116425160572c8e7102016398d1975274228123d1c26d85785a1169
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