Interview Me

Before you write a line of code, this extracts what the user actually wants instead of what they think they should ask for. It works by asking one question at a time, each with your best guess attached, until you can predict their next three answers. Use it when requests are underspecified (missing who, why, or what success looks like) or when you catch yourself filling in ambiguous requirements silently. The confidence threshold is 95%, measured by whether you can actually predict reactions, not vibes. It stops polite users from agreeing with your guesses just to move forward and catches the gap between "I want it scalable" and what they'd build if nobody was watching. Output is a confirmed statement of intent, not a spec.

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$ npx -y skills add addyosmani/agent-skills --skill interview-me --agent claude-code

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Interview Me

Overview

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.

The cheapest moment to find this gap is before any plan, spec, or code exists. Once you've started building, switching costs are real, and the user will rationalize the wrong thing into a "good enough" thing. The misfit gets locked in.

This skill closes the gap before it costs anything. The other Define-phase skills assume you already know roughly what you want: idea-refine generates variations from an idea, spec-driven-development writes the requirements down, doubt-driven-development stress-tests a plan after you've drafted one. Interview-me is the part before all of those, where you ask one question at a time, with your best guess attached, until you can predict what the user is going to say before they say it.