interview-me
Clarify User Intent Before You Build
Underspecified requests cause teams to build the wrong outcome and discover misalignment late. This skill runs a focused, one-question interview that turns ambiguity into confirmed intent.
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Test it
Using "interview-me". Build me a dashboard for our metrics.
Expected outcome:
Hypothesis: You need a way to track experiment status and early signals. Confidence: about 30 percent because the audience, metrics, and success measure are unclear. Question: Who will use this dashboard?
Using "interview-me". Make this process more scalable.
Expected outcome:
Question: If you did not need to justify the decision, what result would you actually want? Guess: You may value faster completion more than broad future flexibility.
Using "interview-me". I want a handoff document after the interview.
Expected outcome:
- Outcome: Track active experiments and their early signals.
- User: The requester uses it during weekly reviews.
- Why now: Information is spread across several documents.
- Success: The requester can find every active experiment in one place.
- Constraint: Keep the workflow lightweight.
- Out of scope: Automated reporting and implementation planning.
Security Audit
SafeAll 24 static findings are false positives. The external-command matches are Markdown backticks, fenced examples, or prose, and the blocker matches describe interview guidance rather than system reconnaissance.
Risk Factors
⚙️ External commands (21)
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addyosmani. (2026). interview-me security audit report (audit version 2) [Author version unspecified]. Skillstore. https://skillstore.io/skills/addyosmani-interview-me/audits/2BibTeX citation
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- name: "addyosmani"
date-released: "2026-09-19"
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Skillstore Score
Why this score Evidence Confidence: HighWhat You Can Build
Shape a Product Request
Turn a broad product idea into a confirmed outcome, target user, success measure, and explicit scope boundary.
Clarify an Engineering Task
Expose hidden assumptions before planning or coding, especially when a familiar request could represent several different solutions.
Prepare a Stakeholder Handoff
Capture confirmed intent in the requester’s language so another collaborator can continue with fewer misunderstandings.
Try These Prompts
Interview me about this request one question at a time. State your hypothesis and confidence before the first question.
Use interview-me to find assumptions in my request. Probe who benefits, why now, success criteria, constraints, and what is out of scope.
Interview me about this proposed solution. Treat the solution as a hypothesis and identify the underlying problem before accepting the requested artifact.
Run a one-question interview until you can predict my next three answers. Restate the confirmed intent with outcome, user, why now, success, constraint, and out of scope.
Best Practices
- Start with a defensible hypothesis and state what remains unknown.
- Ask one focused question at a time, with a reasoned guess attached.
- Require explicit confirmation of the concrete restatement before handing off.
Avoid
- Do not batch several discovery questions into one message.
- Do not accept vague agreement or delegation as explicit confirmation.
- Do not create a plan or specification before intent is confirmed.
Frequently Asked Questions
When should I use this skill?
How many questions will it ask?
Can it interview users in batch mode?
What does the final output contain?
Does it write a project plan?
What happens when I say whatever you think?
Developer Details
Author
addyosmaniLicense
MIT
Skillstore revision
r2
Version notice
The author did not declare a version.
Ref
5d5054f8a23586f9b500fece1cb613a9dffc787b
Maintenance freshness
9/19/2026
Usage
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File structure
📄 SKILL.md