hiring-and-interviewing SKILL.md skillA
hiring-and-interviewing from cbrock84/headcount is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add cbrock84/headcount/hiring-and-interviewing@git:20260916.0e7cd01Pins git:20260916.0e7cd01 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- cbrock84/headcount
- Path
plugins/people/skills/hiring-and-interviewing/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20260916.0e7cd01, committed Sep 16, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 28, 2026
- Size
- 3,847 bytes
- Repository stars
- 2,543
- License
- MIT
Designs and runs hiring — role definition, sourcing, interview loop design, structured evaluation, and the decision itself. Use this to open a role, write a job description or scorecard, design an interview process, prepare interview questions, calibrate a hiring decision, or diagnose why a hiring process produces poor outcomes.
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
# Hiring and interviewing ## Define before sourcing Write, before posting anything: - **What this person will accomplish in their first year** — outcomes, not responsibilities. - **The three or four competencies** that actually predict those outcomes. - **What is genuinely required** versus what is preferred. Long requirement lists are the most reliable way to shrink and homogenize a candidate pool, and most of the list is never used in the decision. - **The bar**, agreed by everyone on the loop, before the first interview. Undefined roles produce interview loops where each interviewer evaluates against a private definition, and the decision goes to whoever argues hardest. ## Design the loop Each interview assesses different competencies, stated in advance. Overlapping interviews produce four opinions on the same thing and none on the rest. - **Structured beats unstructured**, consistently and by a wide margin. Same questions, same order, same rubric. Unstructured interviews mostly measure similarity to the interviewer. - **Work samples predict best.** A realistic exercise close to the actual job beats any amount of …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add cbrock84/headcount/hiring-and-interviewing@sha256:d5a2a827e7e4baf1The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260916.0e7cd01, 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_yrg4t4vs6zoo756x)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Aug 28, 2026 and Sep 16, 2026, about one every 9 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260916.0e7cd01 latest | 2026-09-16 | 0e7cd01 | 3,847 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260901.49e89d6 | 2026-09-01 | 49e89d6 | 3,508 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260828.f80dcb5 | 2026-08-28 | f80dcb5 | 2,963 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 (3847 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
cbrock84/headcount · 2,543 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-18 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_yrg4t4vs6zoo756x GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=cbrock84/headcount/hiring-and-interviewing GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d5a2a827e7e4baf155bee77dae405e11c4cf540d8674e55a0eebadd963b7fd76
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.