expert-interview-prep
Get the most from an hour with an expert — the do-your-homework floor (never ask what's googleable), the question arc from calibration to the frontier, the follow-up discipline that goes deep instead of wide, and the capture that survives the call. Use when asked prep me for the expert call, what should I ask this advisor/analyst/practitioner, we get an hour with X, or our expert calls are pleasant but shallow. Produces the homework brief, the question arc, the follow-up toolkit, and the capture plan.
npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill expert-interview-prep --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Expert Interview Prep Skill An hour with a real expert is expensive and perishable — and most of it gets spent badly: fifteen minutes of questions the expert's own writing already answers, a list marched through on schedule while the expert's best tangent dies unfollowed, and notes that resolve to "great conversation." The prep flips the economics: homework raises the starting altitude (the call begins where public knowledge ends), the question arc is designed (calibration → the core unknowns → the frontier questions only this person can answer), and the discipline in the room is *follow-up over coverage* — the fifth "why" beats the ninth topic. ## What This Skill Produces - **The homework brief** — what the expert has already said publicly (writing, talks, the searchable record), so no question re-asks it - **The question arc** — calibration openers → the core unknowns (ranked, since time will run out) → the only-this-person frontier questions - **The follow-up toolkit** — the probes that go deep: "what's an example?", "who disagrees with that and why?", "what would change your mind?" - **The capture plan** — recording/notes division, the same-day synthesis, and the repo deposit
- What This Skill Produces
- Required Inputs
- Framework: The Prep Rules
- Output Format
- Homework Brief
- The Arc
- The Toolkit
- Capture
- Quality Checks
- Anti-Patterns
What does the expert-interview-prep skill do?
Get the most from an hour with an expert — the do-your-homework floor (never ask what's googleable), the question arc from calibration to the frontier, the follow-up discipline that goes deep instead of wide, and the capture that survives the call. Use when asked prep me for the expert call, what should I ask this advisor/analyst/practitioner, we get an hour with X, or our expert calls are pleasant but shallow. Produces the homework brief, the question arc, the follow-up toolkit, and the capture plan.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill expert-interview-prep --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, a repository with 1,255 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.