Interview Prep
Produce a fair, repeatable interview kit when a solo builder or small team is hiring their first roles.
Overview
Interview Prep is an agent skill for the Grow phase that creates structured interview plans with competency-based questions, scorecards, and debrief templates for fair candidate evaluation.
Install
npx skills add https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins --skill interview-prepWhat is this skill?
- Maps 4–6 role competencies to behavioral and situational question banks with follow-up probes
- 1–4 competency scorecard with level descriptions instead of gut-feel hiring
- Panel assignment: who interviews for which competency
- Structured debrief template for aligned hire/no-hire decisions
- Five design principles: structured, competency-based, evidence-based, diverse panel, scored
- 4–6 key competencies per role
- 1–4 scoring scale per competency
- 2–3 behavioral and 1–2 situational questions per competency
Adoption & trust: 1.9k installs on skills.sh; 19.6k GitHub stars; 3/3 security scanners passed (skills.sh audits).
What problem does it solve?
You are hiring without a playbook, so every interview sounds different and decisions drift toward bias and inconsistency.
Who is it for?
Solo founders or two-person teams opening their first engineering, design, or ops hire and needing structured panels and rubrics fast.
Skip if: High-volume recruiting ops with an existing ATS and legal-reviewed question libraries already in place.
When should I use this skill?
User says "interview plan for", "interview questions for", "how should we interview", "scorecard for", or is preparing to interview candidates.
What do I get? / Deliverables
You get a full interview kit—competencies, question bank, rubric, panel map, and debrief template—ready to run scored interviews across candidates.
- Competency-mapped question bank
- 1–4 scorecard with level descriptions
- Panel assignment and debrief template
Recommended Skills
Journey fit
Structured hiring is a scaling milestone that sits in Grow once you move beyond building alone and need consistent evaluation of candidates. Lifecycle covers team growth rituals—interview design, scorecards, and debriefs are core hiring lifecycle work, not one-off product docs.
How it compares
Use instead of ad-hoc ChatGPT question lists that skip rubrics, panel design, and debrief structure.
Common Questions / FAQ
Who is interview-prep for?
Interview Prep is for indie builders and small teams hiring contractors or employees who want competency-based interviews without dedicated recruiters.
When should I use interview-prep?
Use it in Grow when defining how you will interview for a new role, before scheduling candidates—e.g. first engineer hire, part-time designer, or support contractor—with triggers like "interview plan for" or "scorecard for".
Is interview-prep safe to install?
Review the Security Audits panel on this Prism page and the upstream plugin source before installing; the skill is documentation-only and does not require shell or network by itself.
SKILL.md
READMESKILL.md - Interview Prep
# Interview Prep Create structured interview plans to evaluate candidates consistently and fairly. ## Interview Design Principles 1. **Structured**: Same questions for all candidates in the role 2. **Competency-based**: Map questions to specific skills and behaviors 3. **Evidence-based**: Use behavioral and situational questions 4. **Diverse panel**: Multiple perspectives reduce bias 5. **Scored**: Use rubrics, not gut feelings ## Interview Plan Components ### Role Competencies Define 4-6 key competencies for the role (e.g., technical skills, communication, leadership, problem-solving). ### Question Bank For each competency, provide: - 2-3 behavioral questions ("Tell me about a time...") - 1-2 situational questions ("How would you handle...") - Follow-up probes ### Scorecard Rate each competency on a consistent scale (1-4) with clear descriptions of what each level looks like. ### Debrief Template Structured format for interviewers to share findings and make a decision. ## Output Produce a complete interview kit: panel assignment (who interviews for what), question bank by competency, scoring rubric, and debrief template.