Interview Prep

When to use interview-prep

Tell the agent when a role advances:

I got a screen with Thornfield Labs I have a panel coming up I'm in an offer call right now, coach me

The interview-prep skill handles:

• Pre-interview packets — audience-segmented, grounded in your evidence
• Live negotiation coaching — verbal offer calls, comp pushback, BATNA framing
• Post-interview debriefs — capture what happened and extract durable lessons
• Behavioral story bank — build and sharpen STAR+R stories

Interview packets

For a scheduled interview, say:

build an interview prep packet for my screen at [Company]

The skill reads the saved JD body, your evidence bank, any prior research on the company, and the role-family learning file. It produces:

• A live cue card (one screen, glanceable during the call)
• Role-specific positioning for this audience (recruiter / hiring manager / panel)
• Your strongest evidence mapped to the role's requirements
• Questions to ask at each stage
• Comp/logistics scripts using your target_base and minimum_base (never your private current_base)

The packet is saved to workspace/interview-prep/ and exported to ~/Downloads/rolester/<Company>/. The dashboard Focus card links directly to it via "Open dossier."

Focus card and interview scheduling

When a role has a scheduled interview, it appears on the dashboard Focus card. The agent (via schedule-meeting) writes the structured datetime to interviewAt in the tracker. interview-prep reads that field to determine when prep is relevant; it does not overwrite an already-booked future datetime.

Behavioral story bank

Rolester keeps a private story bank at candidate/stories.yml. Stories are structured as STAR+R (Situation, Task, Action, Result + Reflection) and each traces to an evidence claim.

rolester stories list            # see all stories
rolester stories add --file story.yml --write
rolester stories match --signals "automation,platform"

interview-prep surfaces relevant stories from the bank for each interview packet.

Post-interview debrief

After an interview, paste your notes and say:

here are my notes from the screen / debrief this

The skill extracts:

• What went well (positioning that landed)
• Objections or gaps that surfaced
• Comp or process signals heard
• Coaching items for next rounds

It writes structured fields to the conversations[] entry and appends durable lessons to the role-family learning file.

Live negotiation coaching

For a verbal offer call or comp conversation:

I'm in an offer call right now, coach me through the pushback

interview-prep acts as the live negotiation channel. It draws market numbers only from cited comp-benchmark artifacts (workspace/research/comp-bench-*.md) — it never fabricates a number. It covers geographic-discount pushback, competing offers/BATNA framing, and multi-round sequencing.

For written counter-offers and negotiation emails, use email-comms instead.