How to use Interview Prep in your AI agent

What you'll get

This skill helps you prepare for interviews by walking through background research, question frameworks, and logistics. Whether you're interviewing customers, experts, or stakeholders, it provides checklists for pre-interview research, question templates for different interview types, and guidelines for recording consent and attribution. You'll get structured frameworks to ensure you ask the right questions and capture what you need.

Step 1 — Get the skill source URL

The Interview Prep skill lives at:

Step 2 — Add it to your AI agent

Copy one of these prompts and paste it into your AI tool. The agent will fetch and install the skill for you.

Add the agent skill from https://github.com/jamditis/claude-skills-journalism/tree/master/interview-prep to my project.

Install this agent skill: https://github.com/jamditis/claude-skills-journalism/tree/master/interview-prep

Add this skill to .codex/skills/: https://github.com/jamditis/claude-skills-journalism/tree/master/interview-prep

Add the skill at https://github.com/jamditis/claude-skills-journalism/tree/master/interview-prep to my .gemini/skills/ directory.

Install this agent skill from https://github.com/jamditis/claude-skills-journalism/tree/master/interview-prep

Add this skill: https://github.com/jamditis/claude-skills-journalism/tree/master/interview-prep

Step 3 — Try these prompts

Once the skill is installed, ask your AI things like:

• Preparing to interview customers, users, or stakeholders for research
• Interview an expert or subject matter specialist for content
• Conducting user interviews or customer discovery calls
• You want a structured approach to ensure you get the information you need from any conversation

What this skill does

• Generates pre-interview research checklists covering background, public records, and topic context
• Provides question frameworks and templates tailored to interview type (profile, expert, investigative, sensitive)
• Explains recording consent laws and provides consent templates for different scenarios
• Offers attribution guidelines (on record, background, deep background, off record) with clarification scripts
• Creates interview logistics checklists including scheduling templates and day-of preparation