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Agent skill

Interview

by LilMGenius in LilMGenius/polysona

Start a deep psychology-based interview to extract your persona using 10 frameworks

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Install Interview

skills CLI
$ npx skills add LilMGenius/polysona --skill interview -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install LilMGenius/polysona interview --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/LilMGenius/polysona.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/interview .claude/skills/interview && 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
interview
GitHub stars
164
Token cost
~401 tokens
SKILL.md length
185 words
Files
4 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
8
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Start a deep psychology-based interview to extract your persona using 10 frameworks

  • Works in 3 steps: Try loading… → If file exists → Confirm continuity in first prompt
  • SKILL.md covers Goal, Interview Start Protocol…, Interview Fresh Protocol (no… and Execution Rules
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Interview is an agent skill from LilMGenius/polysona. Start a deep psychology-based interview to extract your persona using 10 frameworks

Its SKILL.md is about 400 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 4 other files, including reference files (for example `references/clean-language.md`, `references/laddering-technique.md` and `references/mcadams-life-story.md`).

The repository describes itself as: Polygonal Persona: A Persona Layer for AI Agents. Metacognition-driven multi-persona extraction and orchestration system. The licence is MIT.

Example prompts

  • “/interview”

Workflow steps

3 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Try loading personas/{active}/persona.md, where active comes from personas/_active.md and falls back to default.
  2. If file exists
  3. Confirm continuity in first prompt

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit ad1f263. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    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

Interview loads about 401 tokens when it runs, and up to ~2.4k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 23 tokens; SKILL.md has 185 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~23
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~401
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~2.4k

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 LilMGenius/polysona at commit ad1f263, republished under its MIT licence (© LilMGenius). 185 words, ~401 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/interview/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 3 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
interview
description
Start a deep psychology-based interview to extract your persona using 10 frameworks
agent
profiler

!ACTIVE=$(cat personas/_active.md 2>/dev/null || echo "default"); cat "personas/$ACTIVE/persona.md" 2>/dev/null || echo "No persona found. Starting fresh interview."

Interview Skill Protocol

Goal

Start or continue a deep psychology-based interview that extracts evidence across 10 frameworks and appends results to persona.md interview-log.

Interview Start Protocol (resume-first)

  1. Try loading personas/{active}/persona.md, where active comes from personas/_active.md and falls back to default.
  2. If file exists:
    • Find ## interview-log.
    • Read the latest interview-log lines.
    • Resume from the last meaningful entry (last framework worked, open GAP hypotheses, unresolved tensions).
  3. Confirm continuity in first prompt:
    • Mention prior framework and continue depth-spiral instead of restarting from zero.

Interview Fresh Protocol (no persona)

  1. If no persona file exists, start a fresh interview.
  2. Begin with McAdams narrative warmup:
    • Ask for life chapters.
    • Ask for one high point, one low point, one turning point.
    • Capture narrative language exactly.
  3. Transition to Laddering only after narrative anchors are established.

Execution Rules

  • Use all 10 frameworks over the full interview flow (not necessarily equal time).
  • Mark contradictions using GAP: format in interview-log.
  • Keep extraction mode: no persona structuring in this step.
  • Append only; never overwrite historical entries.

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

Files

SKILL.md and 3 other files (references) in skills/interview of LilMGenius/polysona.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/clean-language.md
  • references/laddering-technique.md
  • references/mcadams-life-story.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit ad1f263

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Questions about Interview

What does Interview do?

Start a deep psychology-based interview to extract your persona using 10 frameworks. Interview is an agent skill from LilMGenius/polysona.

How do I install Interview in Claude Code?

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

How do I install Interview in Codex?

Run `npx skills add LilMGenius/polysona --skill interview -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/interview in LilMGenius/polysona) into .agents/skills/interview in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Interview 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 LilMGenius/polysona --skill interview -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/interview, .gemini/skills/interview, .github/skills/interview and .opencode/skills/interview in your project.

What does Interview need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Interview is instructions for the agent only.

Does Interview 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 Interview 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 Interview use?

Interview 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 Interview use?

About 401 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1.6k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 2k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Interview?

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Who maintains Interview?

LilMGenius (a GitHub user) maintains it in LilMGenius/polysona, which has 164 GitHub stars. The repository holds 8 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 27, 2026.

Source: LilMGenius/polysona on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.