Overview
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 98k 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.
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"
- Step 6: Terminal Turn & Stop Rule (CRITICAL)
- The 95% Confidence Stop
- Output
Installation
Add interview-me to your agent with:
/plugin marketplace add addyosmani/agent-skillsReview a skill’s source before installing it — skills can instruct your agent to run commands. This command comes from the skill’s public repository, which is the source of truth for setup steps. New to skills? Read how to install Claude Code skills.
Supported agents
- Claude Code — ships a claude code plugin marketplace
- Codex — declared in the repository topics
- Cursor — declared in the repository topics
- Antigravity — declared in the repository topics
License
interview-me is published under the MIT license.
Strengths
- Clear MIT license — safe to read and adapt within its terms
- Ships in addyosmani/agent-skills, an established project with 97,992 GitHub stars
- Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Antigravity
- Actively maintained — repository updated in the last 30 days
- Its repository gained 16,916 GitHub stars over the last 52 days
Author
Topics
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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.
- Which agents does interview-me work with?
- interview-me lists Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Antigravity — named in its SKILL.md, its plugin marketplace or its repository topics. Skills use the portable SKILL.md format, so other agents that read that format may load it too.
- Where does interview-me come from?
- interview-me ships inside addyosmani/agent-skills, a repository that contains 26 catalogued skills in total. The repository's 97,992 GitHub stars apply to that whole collection, not to this skill on its own.
