User Interview Guide skill for Claude and Codex

User Interview Guide as an AI skill. It asks for Research goal, Who you are interviewing, What you already know and 3 more, then does the rest. Free to…

Install it once and Claude or Codex runs it for you. When your request matches, your AI loads the skill, asks for anything it is missing, and works through the template itself. Prefer to fill it in by hand? See the full prompt template.

Download the skill (.zip) · View SKILL.md

When it is used

Use when a researcher or product team is preparing a user interview and needs a timed 30-minute guide with questions and probes. Do not use for a usability test with tasks or a survey questionnaire. Related topics: product, research.

What it will ask you for

• Research goal (longer free text)
• Who you are interviewing (free text, e.g. "Freelance designers who invoice clients")
• What you already know (longer free text)
• Product stage (choose one: Idea, Prototype, Live product, Mature product)
• Topics to cover (longer free text)
• Interview format (choose one: Video call, In person, Phone)

How it works

1. Restate the research goal as the decision the interviews must inform and turn each topic into a past-behaviour opening question.
2. Time the session with welcome, warm-up, main topics and wrap-up so the total comes to 30 minutes.
3. Add two or three neutral probes under each main question.
4. List the interviewer habits to avoid, including leading questions, pitching and hypotheticals.
5. Provide a note-taking template and a short method for turning notes into insights.

What you get

A timed interview guide with script lines for the welcome and wrap-up, main questions with probes, a list of habits to avoid, and a note-taking template.

What it watches out for

• Asking what people would do or pay in future, which produces confident and unreliable answers.
• Stacking two questions in one, so the participant answers only the easier half.
• Pitching the product mid-interview, which turns the participant into a polite customer instead of a witness.

How to install

Claude.ai and the Claude desktop app

1. Download the skill .zip.
2. Open Settings, then Capabilities, and find Skills.
3. Choose Upload skill and select the .zip.
4. Ask Claude for help with the task. It loads the skill when your request matches.

Claude Code

1. Download the skill .zip.
2. Unzip it into ~/.claude/skills/ (or .claude/skills/ inside a project).
3. Start a new session. Claude Code loads the skill when your request matches.

Codex

1. Download the skill .zip.
2. Unzip it into ~/.agents/skills/ (or .agents/skills/ inside a project).
3. Codex picks it up on its own. Type $ and the skill name to use it, or just ask for the task.

Cursor

1. Download the Cursor rule (.mdc).
2. Save it in .cursor/rules/ inside your project.
3. Cursor's agent applies the rule when your request matches its description.

AGENTS.md (Codex, Cursor, and other coding agents)

1. Copy the AGENTS.md section.
2. Paste it into AGENTS.md at the root of your repository, creating the file if needed.
3. Coding agents that read AGENTS.md follow it when your request fits.