The Context Portfolio Interview

Your AI already knows half the answers. This skill makes it prove it — then interview you for the rest.

One markdown file that turns any capable AI into an interviewer that builds your context portfolio: a portable pack of seven markdown files about who you are, your work, your voice, your tools and your current projects. Drop the pack into any AI tool and it stops producing generic output and starts working like a collaborator who actually knows you.

Quick start

Claude Code

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/context-portfolio-interview
curl -o ~/.claude/skills/context-portfolio-interview/SKILL.md \
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KyleBehrend/context-portfolio-interview/main/SKILL.md

Then: “interview me about my work”.

Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini (no install) Paste the entire contents of SKILL.md into a chat and say “interview me”.

What makes it different

Most “tell me about yourself” prompts start from zero. This one starts from everything your AI already has:

1. Source before you ask — it mines persistent memory, past conversations and visible files first, marking every claim [said], [guess] or [gap]. A clean gap beats a confident guess.
2. Show your homework — you see and veto everything it found before it goes anywhere.
3. Interview the gaps — one question at a time, 10–15 questions worst case, far fewer when its memory is warm.
4. A portable pack — seven files (identity, role & goals, domain knowledge, communication style, preferences & constraints, tools & systems, current projects) plus deployment guidance for Claude Projects, CLAUDE.md, custom instructions and saved info.

Privacy, by design

• Nothing surfaced from memory lands in a file unshown.
• No credentials, no client-confidential material, nothing you wouldn't put in a public bio.
• Every line is written to travel between tools — because it will.

Who made this

Built by AI Mates — an Australian community of people building real things with AI, together, on weekly calls. This file is one of our take-home frameworks: built in the open, improved by the people who use it.

If it helped you, come say g’day: aimates.com.au.

License

MIT — see LICENSE. Edit it, fork it, make it better. PRs welcome, especially from people whose AI surprised them with what it already knew.