What do I need to use Expert Interview Prep?

The expert and the occasion; The decision the call feeds; The current belief state; The time box.

Is Expert Interview Prep free to use?

Yes — run it free in the browser playground (no API key needed for the sponsored trial, or bring any provider key), or install it into Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT and more via npx pm-claude-skills. MIT-licensed and open source.

Expert Interview Prep

Q: How do I know the Expert Interview Prep output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: No question on the list is answerable by their public record; Core questions are ranked and traced to the decision; The belief-test question stakes a real current assumption; The follow-up rule outranks the coverage instinct, explicitly.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-19 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-cowork

Get the most from an hour with an expert — the do-your-homework floor (never ask what's googleable), the question arc from calibration to the frontier, the follow-up discipline that goes deep instead of wide, and the capture that survives the call. Use when asked prep me for the expert call, what should I ask this advisor/analyst/practitioner, we get an hour with X, or our expert calls are pleasant but shallow. Produces the homework brief, the question arc, the follow-up toolkit, and the capture plan.

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What to give it

▸The expert and the occasion — who, their actual expertise edges (experts are spiky — the prep aims at their peaks), and the relationship (a paid analyst call, a courtesy favor, a potential advisor — the register differs)

▸The decision the call feeds — what the team will do differently after; questions trace to it or get cut ([desk-research-sprint](../desk-research-sprint/SKILL.md) decomposition applies)

▸The current belief state — what the team thinks it knows, including the shaky parts; the best expert questions test beliefs, and hidden beliefs can't be tested

▸The time box — 30 vs. 60 minutes changes the arc's ambition; both change what gets pre-sent

✅ The bar it holds itself to

Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.

✓No question on the list is answerable by their public record

✓Core questions are ranked and traced to the decision

✓The belief-test question stakes a real current assumption

✓The follow-up rule outranks the coverage instinct, explicitly

✓Capture distinguishes claims, opinions, and hearsay

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not spend expert-minutes on googleable questions — the hour starts at the public frontier or it's a podcast

Do not march the list — the surprising answer is the call's best moment; follow it

Do not ask only open questions — staked beliefs get corrected; blank slates get lectures

Do not treat expert assertion as established fact — one source, graded accordingly, numbers triangulated

Do not synthesize next week — expert calls decay overnight into "it was really useful"

Install

npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude   # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcp

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