Agent skill

The Visa Interview

by mohitagw15856 in mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Simulate a consular visa interview — the 90-second assessment, the questions behind the questions, and a debrief on which answers helped and hurt.

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Install The Visa Interview

skills CLI
$ npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill the-visa-interview -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills the-visa-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/mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/the-visa-interview .claude/skills/the-visa-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
the-visa-interview
GitHub stars
1.4k
Token cost
~1.3k tokens
SKILL.md length
651 words
Files
2 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
1,348
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Simulate a consular visa interview — the 90-second assessment, the questions behind the questions, and a debrief on which answers helped and hurt.

  • Works in 5 steps: The underlying question is never the… → Specificity reads as truth; polish reads… → Consistency is the whole exam: answers… → …
  • Asked prep me for my visa interview
  • SKILL.md covers What This Skill Produces, Required Inputs, Framework: The Officer's Read and Output Format, plus 6 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

The Visa Interview is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Simulate a consular visa interview — the 90-second assessment, the questions behind the questions, and a debrief on which answers helped and hurt. Use when asked prep me for my visa interview, simulate the consular interview, why might my visa be denied, or practice my student visa questions. Produces the interview transcript with the officer's internal read after each answer, the decision with its real basis, and a debrief on answer-shapes — preparation, never coaching to misrepresent.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.3k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 2 other files, including reference files (for example `references/worked-example.md`).

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 prep me for my visa interview
  • Simulate the consular interview
  • Why might my visa be denied
  • Practice my student visa questions

Example prompts

  • “/the-visa-interview”

Workflow steps

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

  1. The underlying question is never the asked question: "What will you study?" is testing whether the plan is real and coherent, not…
  2. Specificity reads as truth; polish reads as coaching: "I'll join my university's data-science program, my uncle in Leeds is NOT funding it…
  3. Consistency is the whole exam: answers are checked against the stated paperwork and against each other; one contradiction reframes every…
  4. Brevity is credibility: volunteered extra information opens new lines of questioning — the simulation punishes rambling realistically.
  5. The integrity line: the debrief improves presentation of the true situation — ordering, specificity, calm. Any request to rehearse a false…

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

    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

The Visa Interview loads about 1.3k tokens when it runs, and up to ~2.8k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 128 tokens; SKILL.md has 651 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~128
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.3k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~2.8k

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). 651 words, ~1,344 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/the-visa-interview/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
the-visa-interview
description
Simulate a consular visa interview — the 90-second assessment, the questions behind the questions, and a debrief on which answers helped and hurt. Use when asked prep me for my visa interview, simulate the consular interview, why might my visa be denied, or practice my student visa questions. Produces the interview transcript with the officer's internal read after each answer, the decision with its real basis, and a debrief on answer-shapes — preparation, never coaching to misrepresent.

The Visa Interview Skill

A consular interview is ninety seconds of questions carrying one underlying assessment the officer is required to make. Applicants fail prepared-for-the-wrong-test: they memorize speeches when the officer is reading consistency, specificity, and whether answers match the paperwork. This skill runs the window early — realistic questions, an officer's internal read after each answer — then debriefs on answer shape: concise, specific, consistent, true. It prepares people to present their real situation well; it will not help construct a false one.

What This Skill Produces

  • The transcript — the rapid-fire interview, with the officer's internal read after each answer
  • The decision — approved / refused-with-section-cited (framed generically — grounds vary by country) / administrative processing, with the real basis
  • The debrief — which answers helped, which hurt and why, and the answer-shape fixes — all within the truth

Required Inputs

Ask for these if not provided:

  • The visa type and country — student, visitor, work, immigrant intent categories differ; the officer's required assessment differs with them. Country-specific rules are simulated generically and flagged as verify-with-official-sources.
  • The real situation — purpose, funding, ties to home (job, family, property, return plans), prior travel/refusals, who's sponsoring. The simulation uses only what's true — that's structural, not decorative.
  • The paperwork story — what the forms say; interview-vs-forms inconsistency is the classic self-inflicted refusal
  • The worry — the question they dread; it will be asked

Framework: The Officer's Read

  1. The underlying question is never the asked question: "What will you study?" is testing whether the plan is real and coherent, not curiosity. Each answer gets scored against the question-behind-the-question.
  2. Specificity reads as truth; polish reads as coaching: "I'll join my university's data-science program, my uncle in Leeds is NOT funding it — my father's business is, here's the scale" beats a memorized paragraph. Over-rehearsed answers trigger follow-ups; the simulation models that.
  3. Consistency is the whole exam: answers are checked against the stated paperwork and against each other; one contradiction reframes every subsequent answer.
  4. Brevity is credibility: volunteered extra information opens new lines of questioning — the simulation punishes rambling realistically.
  5. The integrity line: the debrief improves presentation of the true situation — ordering, specificity, calm. Any request to rehearse a false story, hide a material fact, or evade a lawful question ends the exercise with a referral to an immigration lawyer, who is also the right stop for genuinely complicated histories (refusals, overstays, criminal records).
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Output Format

Visa Interview: [type — country, applicant profile]

Simulation — a plausible adversarial reading, not a prediction.

Transcript

[8–14 rapid exchanges. After each answer: Officer's read: one line — what it signaled, what it triggered next]

The Decision

[Outcome with the real basis · what a refusal slip would say vs. what actually drove it]

Debrief — out of character

AnswerHelped / hurtThe shape that works (same truth, better presented)
[Plus: the consistency check against stated paperwork · the brevity edits · the dread question's prepared true answer]

Prepared truthfully — this simulation improves how a real situation is presented; it does not build stories. Requirements vary by country and change: verify everything with official sources; complicated histories belong with an immigration lawyer.

Quality Checks

  • Every officer read names the question-behind-the-question
  • At least one over-long answer is realistically punished with a follow-up
  • Consistency is checked against the stated paperwork explicitly
  • The debrief rewrites answers within the supplied truth only
  • Country-specific legal grounds are framed generically with the verify-officially flag
  • The truthfulness banner appears in the artifact

Anti-Patterns

  • Do not coach misrepresentation, concealment, or evasion — that request ends the simulation and routes to a lawyer
  • Do not script memorized speeches — the debrief teaches shapes, not lines
  • Do not assert country-specific law — simulate the assessment generically and flag verification
  • Do not simulate hostility — officers are fast and neutral, not cruel; realism is the tempo, not menace
  • Do not stay in character in the debrief

Example Trigger Phrases

  • "Prep me for my visa interview."
  • "Simulate the consular interview."
  • "Why might my visa be denied?"
  • "Practice my student visa questions."

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Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file (references) in skills/the-visa-interview of mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/worked-example.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1cbf1f0

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Questions about The Visa Interview

What does The Visa Interview do?

Simulate a consular visa interview — the 90-second assessment, the questions behind the questions, and a debrief on which answers helped and hurt. The Visa Interview is an agent skill from mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills. Simulate a consular visa interview — the 90-second assessment, the questions behind the questions, and a debrief on which answers helped and hurt.

When should I use The Visa Interview?

The Visa Interview fits situations like: asked prep me for my visa interview; simulate the consular interview; why might my visa be denied; practice my student visa questions.

How do I install The Visa Interview in Claude Code?

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

How do I install The Visa Interview in Codex?

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

Can I use The Visa 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 mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill the-visa-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/the-visa-interview, .gemini/skills/the-visa-interview, .github/skills/the-visa-interview and .opencode/skills/the-visa-interview in your project.

What does The Visa Interview need to run?

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

Does The Visa 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 The Visa 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 The Visa Interview use?

The Visa 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 The Visa Interview use?

About 1.3k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.4k 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 1.4k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

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Who maintains The Visa Interview?

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.