interview-me
Elicit the real requirements by interviewing the requester BEFORE building or writing anything — one question at a time, until the brief is buildable. Use when a request is vague ('make me a dashboard', 'write something for the board'), when past deliverables missed the mark, or when the user says 'interview me' / 'ask me questions first'. Produces a validated brief: goal, audience, constraints, success criteria, and explicit non-goals — then, and only then, the work.
npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill interview-me --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.
# Interview Me Skill The most expensive failure mode in AI-assisted work isn't bad output — it's excellent output *to the wrong brief*. This skill inverts the flow: before producing anything, interview the requester like a senior consultant would, one question at a time, until the brief can survive contact with the deliverable. ## What This Skill Produces - A **validated brief**: goal, audience, constraints, success criteria, non-goals — confirmed by the requester - Then the actual deliverable, built against that brief - A visible **assumption ledger** for anything the interview couldn't settle ## When to Trigger (and when not) Interview when: the request is one sentence for a multi-hour deliverable · the audience or purpose is unstated · two readings of the request lead to different artifacts · the stakes are high (board, customer-facing, irreversible). **Skip the interview** when the request is already specific, the pattern is established from earlier in the conversation, or the cost of a wrong draft is lower than the cost of five questions — say "I have enough to start" and start. ## Interview Method 1. **One question at a time.** A wall of seven questions gets skimmed answers t
- What This Skill Produces
- When to Trigger (and when not)
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What does the interview-me skill do?
Elicit the real requirements by interviewing the requester BEFORE building or writing anything — one question at a time, until the brief is buildable. Use when a request is vague ('make me a dashboard', 'write something for the board'), when past deliverables missed the mark, or when the user says 'interview me' / 'ask me questions first'. Produces a validated brief: goal, audience, constraints, success criteria, and explicit non-goals — then, and only then, the work.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill interview-me --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.