hiring-and-interviewing skillA
hiring-and-interviewing is agent-read markdown (skill) from cbrock84/headcount: 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..
Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns 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 …
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How to install
mdr add cbrock84/headcount/hiring-and-interviewing@git:20260916.0e7cd01mdr add cbrock84/headcount/hiring-and-interviewing@sha256:d5a2a827e7e4baf1Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_yrg4t4vs6zoo756x)
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Versions
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| 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
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- 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 · 1,664 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-17 · 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
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