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Agent skill

User Interviews

by emotixco in emotixco/claude-skills-founder

Write a 25-minute customer discovery interview script that follows The Mom Test, with screening criteria, exact wording, red flags, and a framework for analyzing 5-8 interviews.

MITAuto-check passedProduct & Project Management

Install User Interviews

skills CLI
$ npx skills add emotixco/claude-skills-founder --skill user-interviews -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install emotixco/claude-skills-founder user-interviews --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/emotixco/claude-skills-founder.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/user-interviews .claude/skills/user-interviews && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
user-interviews
GitHub stars
517
Token cost
~1.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
544 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
13
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Write a 25-minute customer discovery interview script that follows The Mom Test, with screening criteria, exact wording, red flags, and a framework for analyzing 5-8 interviews.

  • Works in 5 steps: Interview objectives → Screening criteria → Interview script → …
  • A founder wants to talk to potential customers before
  • SKILL.md covers Before you start, Instructions and Rules
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

User Interviews is an agent skill from emotixco/claude-skills-founder. Write a 25-minute customer discovery interview script that follows The Mom Test, with screening criteria, exact wording, red flags, and a framework for analyzing 5-8 interviews. Use when a founder wants to talk to potential customers before or after building.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Product & Project Management, covering User research. The repository describes itself as: Claude Code skills for startup founders — product briefs, competitor analysis, pricing strategy, pitch decks, and GTM plans from your terminal. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • A founder wants to talk to potential customers before
  • Tasks that involve User research

Example prompts

  • “/user-interviews”

Requirements

  • Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Edit(founder/**)

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Interview objectives
  2. Screening criteria
  3. Interview script
  4. Analysis framework
  5. Red flags cheat sheet

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 0602cad. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

    • Read
    • Edit(founder/**)

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

User Interviews loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 69 tokens; SKILL.md has 544 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~69
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.1k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from emotixco/claude-skills-founder at commit 0602cad, republished under its MIT licence (© emotixco). 544 words, ~1,058 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/user-interviews/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
user-interviews
description
Write a 25-minute customer discovery interview script that follows The Mom Test, with screening criteria, exact wording, red flags, and a framework for analyzing 5-8 interviews. Use when a founder wants to talk to potential customers before or after building.
allowed-tools
Read, Edit(founder/**)
argument-hint
[your product and the assumptions to test]

You are a user research lead. You know which questions get honest answers and which ones get polite lies.

Input: $ARGUMENTS

Before you start

Read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/shared/conventions.md and follow it.

  • Reads: founder/facts.md, founder/product-brief.md, founder/persona-gen.md, founder/validate-idea.md
  • Needs: the product, and the assumptions the founder is least sure about
  • Saves to: founder/user-interviews.md

If founder/validate-idea.md or founder/product-brief.md lists risky assumptions, test those first.

Instructions

1. Interview objectives

Identify the top 3 assumptions this interview needs to test. For each:

  • The assumption, stated as a testable hypothesis
  • What a "confirmed" answer looks like
  • What a "rejected" answer looks like
2. Screening criteria

Define who to interview:

  • Must-have criteria: 3-4 attributes the interviewee must have
  • Nice-to-have criteria: 2-3 attributes that make them more useful
  • Disqualifying criteria: who to exclude and why
  • Where to find them: specific communities, LinkedIn searches, or recruiting tools such as UserInterviews.com or Respondent
  • Incentive: what to offer (gift card amount, product access, and so on)
3. Interview script

Opening (2 minutes)

  • Exact words to say to set expectations
  • How to ask for honest feedback, including negative feedback
  • Recording permission wording

Warm-up (3 minutes) 2-3 questions about their role, work, and context. They should lead into the problem space without revealing what you're building.

Problem exploration (10 minutes) 5-7 questions that dig into whether the problem exists, how severe it is, and what they do about it today.

Rules for these questions:

  • Ask about past behavior, not future intent ("Tell me about the last time you..." not "Would you...")
  • Never mention your solution
  • Follow The Mom Test: no leading questions, no hypotheticals
  • Include follow-up prompts for each question

Solution exploration (5 minutes) 3-4 questions about how they'd solve the problem, asked before you show your solution. Listen for:

  • Features they mention unprompted (these matter most)
  • Priorities (what they'd want first)
  • Dealbreakers (what would stop them using a solution)

Reaction (5 minutes)

  • A description of your solution concept: the exact words to say, 2 sentences maximum
  • 3-4 follow-up questions to gauge real reaction
  • Signals that separate polite enthusiasm from real interest

Closing (2 minutes)

  • Ask for referrals to similar people
  • Commitment test: "Would you be willing to [specific small action] this week?"
  • Thank them and explain next steps
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4. Analysis framework

After 5-8 interviews:

  • Pattern table: a simple table to track answers across interviews
  • Signal vs. noise: how to tell a real pattern from one vocal outlier
  • Decision criteria: when you have enough to decide build, pivot, or kill
5. Red flags cheat sheet

Signs the interviewee is being polite, not honest:

  • "That sounds cool" (no specifics about why)
  • "I would definitely use that" (future tense is unreliable)
  • "You should add [feature X]" (they're designing for you, not describing their problem)
  • They can't describe the last time they had this problem (they probably don't have it)

Signs of real interest:

  • They describe the problem in specific, emotional terms without prompting
  • They've already spent time or money trying to fix it
  • They ask when they can use it
  • They offer to introduce you to others with the same problem

Rules

  • Every question follows The Mom Test: no leading, no hypotheticals.
  • Write the exact words to say, not paraphrases.
  • Assume the founder has never run a user interview.
  • The script fits a 25-minute conversation.
  • Keep total output under 1500 words.

© emotixco, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/user-interviews of emotixco/claude-skills-founder.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 0602cad

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Questions about User Interviews

What does User Interviews do?

Write a 25-minute customer discovery interview script that follows The Mom Test, with screening criteria, exact wording, red flags, and a framework for analyzing 5-8 interviews. User Interviews is an agent skill from emotixco/claude-skills-founder. Write a 25-minute customer discovery interview script that follows The Mom Test, with screening criteria, exact wording, red flags, and a framework for analyzing 5-8 interviews.

When should I use User Interviews?

User Interviews fits situations like: A founder wants to talk to potential customers before; tasks that involve User research.

How do I install User Interviews in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add emotixco/claude-skills-founder --skill user-interviews -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/user-interviews in emotixco/claude-skills-founder) into .claude/skills/user-interviews in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install User Interviews in Codex?

Run `npx skills add emotixco/claude-skills-founder --skill user-interviews -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/user-interviews in emotixco/claude-skills-founder) into .agents/skills/user-interviews in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use User Interviews in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add emotixco/claude-skills-founder --skill user-interviews -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/user-interviews, .gemini/skills/user-interviews, .github/skills/user-interviews and .opencode/skills/user-interviews in your project.

What does User Interviews need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: User Interviews is instructions for the agent only. Its frontmatter pre-approves these tools: Read, Edit(founder/**).

Does User Interviews access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is User Interviews safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does User Interviews use?

User Interviews is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does User Interviews use?

About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.2k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to User Interviews?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with User Interviews: User Research Cookiy (cookiy-ai/user-research-skill, 1.6k stars), Fable Domain (Sahir619/fable-method, 2.3k stars), Produck Feedback To Build (tryproduck/produck-skills, 510 stars) and MITRE Problem Framing Canvas (deanpeters/Product-Manager-Skills, 7.2k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains User Interviews?

emotixco (a GitHub organization) maintains it in emotixco/claude-skills-founder, which has 517 GitHub stars. The repository holds 13 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 7, 2026.

Source: emotixco/claude-skills-founder on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.