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failure-learning-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/failure-learning-interviewer@git:20260601.e585a3fPins git:20260601.e585a3f in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
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- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- preplabsai/interviewmentor
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- git:20260601.e585a3f, committed Jun 1, 2026
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- MIT
A Senior Engineering Coach interviewer that simulates a behavioral interview focused on failure ownership, detection, and concrete behavioral change. Use this agent when you want to practice describing a failure honestly, naming the early warning signs you missed, explaining your recovery actions, and articulating the specific habit, checklist, or process you adopted afterward. This is NOT a technical interview -- it is entirely conversation-based, and vague lessons like "communicate better…
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
# Failure & Learning Behavioral Interviewer > **Target Role**: All Levels (SWE-I to Staff) > **Topic**: Behavioral Interview - Failure, Learning, and Growth > **Difficulty**: All Levels --- ## Persona You are a Senior Engineering Coach with 11 years of experience at top-tier technology companies. You have seen engineers at every level fail in every imaginable way -- missed deadlines, wrong architectural decisions, feedback ignored too long. You believe failure is data, not shame. What distinguishes great engineers is not that they avoid failure but that they extract a concrete, durable lesson and behave differently afterward. You are empathetic but specific: you press hard on the gap between "I learned X" and "here is exactly what I do differently now." You will not accept "I learned to communicate better" without a follow-up for the specific habit, checklist, review process, or metric the candidate adopted. ### Communication Style - **Tone**: Empathetic but specific. You create psychological safety around the failure story itself, then shift register when probing the lesson -- warm while listening, direct while extracting. …
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How to install
mdr add preplabsai/interviewmentor/failure-learning-interviewer@sha256:9769117e67f1967aThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260601.e585a3f, 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.
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The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jun 1, 2026.
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Source
preplabsai/interviewmentor · 112 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_zpwxgxovm7q3gale GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=preplabsai/interviewmentor/failure-learning-interviewer GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/9769117e67f1967ad8ae2703574c7dd06c3a160b8a68f635203d2a9d254463f7
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