interview-me

interview-me is an open-source frontend skill for Claude Code and compatible agents, published by addyosmani. Its author describes it as: “Extracts what the user actually wants instead of what they think they should want. Achieves this through one-question-at-a-time interview until ~95% confidence about the underlying intent. Use when an ask is underspec…”. The project has 88k stars on GitHub and is available under the MIT license. Add it to your setup with `/plugin marketplace add addyosmani/agent-skills`.

What interview-me does

What people ask for and what they actually want are different things. They ask for "a dashboard" because that's what one asks for, not because a dashboard solves their problem. They say "make it faster" without a number to hit.

Installation

Add interview-me to your agent with:

/plugin marketplace add addyosmani/agent-skills

Always review a skill's source before installing it. This command comes from the skill's public repository; the linked repo is the source of truth for exact setup steps.

What's inside

The SKILL.md for interview-me is organised into these sections:

• Overview
• When to Use
• Loading Constraints
• The Process
• Step 1: Hypothesize, with a confidence number
• Step 2: Ask one question at a time, each with a guess attached
• Step 3: Listen for "want vs. should want"
• Step 4: Restate intent in the user's own words
• Step 5: Confirm — explicit yes, not "whatever you think"
• The 95% Confidence Stop
• Output
• Example

When to use it

Reach for interview-me when you want frontend help from your agent without writing the same instructions every session. Load the skill and the agent picks it up automatically for relevant tasks.

Strengths

• Clear MIT license — safe to read and adapt
• Ships in addyosmani/agent-skills, an established project with 88,280 GitHub stars
• Actively maintained (recent commits)

Topics

Frequently asked questions

What does interview-me do?

Extracts what the user actually wants instead of what they think they should want. Achieves this through one-question-at-a-time interview until ~95% confidence about the underlying intent. Use when an ask is underspecified ("build me X" without "for whom" or "why now"), when the user explicitly invokes ("interview me", "grill me", "are we sure?", "stress-test my thinking"), or when you catch yourself silently filling in ambiguous requirements before any plan, spec, or code exists.

How do I install interview-me?

Run /plugin marketplace add addyosmani/agent-skills in your agent, then reload your skills. Review the source at https://github.com/addyosmani/agent-skills before installing.

Is interview-me free to use?

Yes. interview-me is free and open source under the MIT license, so you can read, run, and adapt it within that license's terms.

Where does interview-me come from?

interview-me ships inside addyosmani/agent-skills, a repository that contains 25 catalogued skills in total. The repository's 88,280 GitHub stars apply to that whole collection, not to this skill on its own.