Agent skill

Hire Or Pass

by mohitagw15856 in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Turn a hiring debrief into a typed decision — hire, hire at a different level, get more signal, or pass — from rubric evidence only, with probabilities and confidence.

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Install Hire Or Pass

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill hire-or-pass -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills hire-or-pass --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/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/hire-or-pass .claude/skills/hire-or-pass && 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
hire-or-pass
GitHub stars
1.4k
Token cost
~1.4k tokens
SKILL.md length
642 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
1,348
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Turn a hiring debrief into a typed decision — hire, hire at a different level, get more signal, or pass — from rubric evidence only, with probabilities and confidence.

  • Asked should we hire this candidate
  • SKILL.md covers Where this sits, What This Skill Produces, Required Inputs and Framework: Four Defined Outcomes, plus 4 more sections
  • Calls node
  • Run the debrief

What it does

Hire Or Pass is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Turn a hiring debrief into a typed decision — hire, hire at a different level, get more signal, or pass — from rubric evidence only, with probabilities and confidence. Use when asked should we hire this candidate, run the debrief, hire or no-hire, or when interviewers disagree and the manager has to call it. Produces the evidence state per competency, the four-way decision with probabilities, the act-or-hold verdict, and when holding, the exact competency to test and who tests it. Decision support for a human…

Its SKILL.md is about 1.4k 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 Education, covering Quizzes and assessments. The repository describes itself as: 1255 professional Agent Skills for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor & Codex — PRDs, postmortems, leases, medical bills, layoffs, go-bags, new countries. Plain markdown, MIT, in… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Asked should we hire this candidate
  • Run the debrief
  • Interviewers disagree and the manager has to call it

Example prompts

  • “/hire-or-pass”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1cbf1f0. 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

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • node

    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

Hire Or Pass loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 141 tokens; SKILL.md has 642 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~141
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.4k

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 mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills at commit 1cbf1f0, republished under its MIT licence (© mohitagw15856). 642 words, ~1,378 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/hire-or-pass/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
hire-or-pass
description
Turn a hiring debrief into a typed decision — hire, hire at a different level, get more signal, or pass — from rubric evidence only, with probabilities and confidence. Use when asked should we hire this candidate, run the debrief, hire or no-hire, or when interviewers disagree and the manager has to call it. Produces the evidence state per competency, the four-way decision with probabilities, the act-or-hold verdict, and when holding, the exact competency to test and who tests it. Decision support for a human decision — a person owns the hire.
version
1.0.0

Hire or Pass

Debriefs go wrong when the loudest interviewer wins or when everyone waits to see what the manager thinks. This skill forces the evidence into a fixed shape — per competency, strongest example and strongest counter-example, from whom — and defines the four possible outcomes before the discussion starts. The output is a distribution over those outcomes and, when it is close, the specific extra signal to go get.

Boundary. This is decision support. A person makes and owns the hiring decision, applies the company's process and the law where they are, and is accountable for it. Never let a distribution replace that.

Where this sits

After hiring-rubric (which defines the competencies) and engineering-hiring-rubric, and after the interviews. This one runs the debrief decision.

What This Skill Produces

  • The evidence state — per must-have competency: strongest example, strongest counter-example, which interviewer saw it, rubric scores
  • The decision — hire / hire_at_different_level / more_signal / pass with probabilities and confidence
  • Act or hold — thresholds applied; a close hire/pass is a more_signal by definition
  • The signal plan — when holding: the competency to test, the format, who runs it, by when
  • The debrief record — one paragraph for the file: evidence summary, decision, who decided

Required Inputs

Ask for these; do not infer from "vibes" or an interviewer's overall thumbs:

  • role — title, level, the 3–5 must-have competencies from the rubric
  • evidence — per competency: strongest observed example and strongest counter-example, with the interviewer who saw it
  • scores — rubric scores per interviewer per competency
  • references — if taken: confirmed or contradicted what
  • risks — gaps, level mismatch, red flags with the evidence behind them
  • process — any missed interviews or untested competencies

Framework: Four Defined Outcomes

OptionIt applies when
hireEvery must-have competency has positive evidence from at least two interviewers, and no red flag has evidence behind it
hire_at_different_levelThe evidence supports the competencies at a different level than the role was opened at
more_signalA must-have was untested, or the evidence is split between interviewers — one targeted extra conversation decides it
passA must-have competency has negative evidence, or a red flag is substantiated

Thresholds. Act when confidence ≥ 0.65 and the winning option's probability ≥ 0.7. A close hire / pass is a more_signal outcome: name the competency and who tests it. Never decide on the distribution alone.

Evidence, not impressions. "Strong communicator" is an impression. "Explained the outage timeline to a non-engineer in the panel without being asked — seen by R." is evidence. Only evidence enters the state.

Getting probabilities. Any calibrated decision model that returns a probability per defined option serves this contract; the repo ships an adapter (node integrations/jev/decide.mjs hire-or-pass --state state.json, contract in integrations/jev/decisions/). Without one, the assistant estimates and labels it. Either way the decision is the hiring manager's.

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Output Format

Debrief decision: [role, level] · candidate [initials]

Evidence by competency

CompetencyStrongest example (who)Strongest counter (who)Scores
…………

Decision

OptionProbability
hire0.xx
hire_at_different_level0.xx
more_signal0.xx
pass0.xx

Confidence: 0.xx · Source: [model / estimate]

Verdict: [act: option] or [hold → more_signal: competency, format, owner, by when] Debrief record: [one paragraph — evidence summary, the decision, who made it]

Quality Checks

  • Every must-have has an evidence row; untested ones are marked and force more_signal
  • Counter-examples are recorded, not just the good moments
  • Red flags are listed with evidence or dropped
  • All four probabilities shown; the verdict cites the thresholds
  • The record names the human who decided
  • Nothing in the state is a protected characteristic or a proxy for one

Anti-Patterns

  • Overall thumbs replacing per-competency evidence
  • Anchoring on the manager — collect scores before anyone speaks
  • "Culture fit" as an undefined competency
  • Deciding a coin flip — 0.5 / 0.5 hire/pass is a more_signal, always
  • Letting the model hire — it produces evidence about evidence; a person decides

Example Trigger Phrases

  • "Run the debrief — three interviewers, split panel."
  • "Hire or pass on this candidate? Here are the scorecards."
  • "We're at hire vs. pass 50/50 — what do we do?"

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Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/hire-or-pass of mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1cbf1f0

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Questions about Hire Or Pass

What does Hire Or Pass do?

Turn a hiring debrief into a typed decision — hire, hire at a different level, get more signal, or pass — from rubric evidence only, with probabilities and confidence. Hire Or Pass is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Turn a hiring debrief into a typed decision — hire, hire at a different level, get more signal, or pass — from rubric evidence only, with probabilities and confidence.

When should I use Hire Or Pass?

Hire Or Pass fits situations like: asked should we hire this candidate; run the debrief; interviewers disagree and the manager has to call it.

How do I install Hire Or Pass in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill hire-or-pass -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/hire-or-pass in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .claude/skills/hire-or-pass in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Hire Or Pass in Codex?

Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill hire-or-pass -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/hire-or-pass in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills) into .agents/skills/hire-or-pass in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Hire Or Pass 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 mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill hire-or-pass -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/hire-or-pass, .gemini/skills/hire-or-pass, .github/skills/hire-or-pass and .opencode/skills/hire-or-pass in your project.

What does Hire Or Pass need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Hire Or Pass needs the command-line tools its instructions call (node).

Does Hire Or Pass 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 Hire Or Pass 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 Hire Or Pass use?

Hire Or Pass 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 Hire Or Pass use?

About 1.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.5k 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 Hire Or Pass?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Hire Or Pass: DeepTutor CLI (HKUDS/DeepTutor, 41k stars), AI Engineering Placement Quiz (rohitg00/ai-engineering-from-scratch, 67k stars), Codebase to Course (zarazhangrui/codebase-to-course, 5.7k stars) and AI Engineering Phase Quiz (rohitg00/ai-engineering-from-scratch, 67k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Hire Or Pass?

mohitagw15856 (a GitHub user) maintains it in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, which has 1,434 GitHub stars. The repository holds 1,348 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 9, 2026.

Source: mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.