interview SKILL.md skillA
interview from vanducng/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add vanducng/skills/interview@v1.2.0Pins v1.2.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- vanducng/skills
- Path
skills/interview/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v1.2.0, committed Sep 11, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 18, 2026
- Size
- 6,834 bytes
- Repository stars
- 8
- License
- MIT
Extracts what the user actually wants before any options, plan, or code. One question at a time with a stated hypothesis until an explicit yes on a restated intent (outcome, user, success, constraint, out of scope). Use when the ask is underspecified, missing who/why/success/constraint, or the user says 'interview me', 'grill me', 'before we start', 'are we sure', 'align first'. Pass --grill to walk an existing plan or idea. Pass --wayfinder (or 'chart this', 'work the map', 'this is huge'…
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 Interview extracts **want**: outcome / user / success / constraint / out of scope, confirmed with an explicit yes. `--grill` walks an existing plan or idea. `--wayfinder` charts a multi-session decision map. Those are modes of this skill, not other skills - do not look for `vd:wayfinder`. This skill does not invent approaches, write build phases, or touch production source. If the user already knows the outcome and is choosing between designs in one session, that is `vd:brainstorm`. ## Hard rules Default and `--grill` (want / walk-an-idea). `--wayfinder` uses the map rules in [`references/wayfinder.md`](references/wayfinder.md) instead. 1. **One question per message.** Batching is a survey, not an interview. Why: a stacked list gets a polite yes, not a decision. 2. **State a hypothesis + confidence before asking.** Attach your best guess and a recommended answer. Why: reacting is faster than generating from scratch, and a visible guess is easy to correct. 3. **Never ask a fact you can look up.** Repo layout, current stack, existing APIs, prior ADRs - read them. Why: the user's job is decisions, not research. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add vanducng/skills/interview@sha256:7d098d307926d07aThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.2.0, 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_ztl5rhhdhdq62usn)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Aug 18, 2026 and Sep 11, 2026, about one every 6 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.2.0 latest | 2026-09-11 | 9e58ef3 | 6,834 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1.0 | 2026-08-23 | 87cd06b | 10,149 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1.0 | 2026-08-19 | 204f73f | 10,067 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1.0 | 2026-08-18 | 5259a7d | 10,069 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-08-18 | b285587 | 8,526 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 (6834 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
vanducng/skills · 8 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ztl5rhhdhdq62usn GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=vanducng/skills/interview GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/7d098d307926d07ac734ea4146b69442d6ee8a1cc721eb6566f34ebb8ecc2d43
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.