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tech-podcast-interview-prep skill (samber): prep for someone else's podcast

Prepares you for a podcast, video interview or panel someone else hosts, and ends in a one-page prep brief.

Installs
12.5K
on skills.sh
Stars
7
on GitHub
Files
5
besides SKILL.md
Updated
Nov 2026
last repo commit

tech-podcast-interview-prep turns a vague "we'll talk about my project" into a prep brief you can hold on a card during the recording. It runs a 13-question interview, then works through 12 steps: show reconnaissance, angle, message spine, story bank, opening answer, depth calibration, sound bites, hard questions, format adaptation, disclosure, a recording-day card and a promotion loop. It ranks the steps by prep time, so an evening of prep gets spine, opening answer and hard questions first.

It triggers on requests like "I'm going on a podcast next week" or "what do I say when they ask about competitors". The booking must already exist: SKILL.md sends pitching hosts, owning your show and job interviews to other skills. It bundles no scripts. SKILL.md tells Claude to read the show's RSS feed, episode list and Apple Podcasts page, and to search the web when it can browse.

Good for

  • Developer advocates and DevRel leads booked on someone else's show
  • Open-source maintainers about to talk about their project
  • Technical founders who need talking points and answers to hard questions

Install tech-podcast-interview-prep

Claude Code

  1. 1

    Copy this prompt.

    Install the tech-podcast-interview-prep skill in Claude Code. Run this command:

/plugin marketplace add samber/developer-relations-skills
/plugin install developer-relations-skills@developer-relations-skills

Then check that it loaded and tell me how to use it.
  2. 2

    Paste it into Claude Code. It shows the change and asks before running it.

The README recommends installing the whole collection because its skills reference each other, and tech-podcast-interview-prep names other skills in the collection to hand work to. The whole-collection routes add all 93 skills in the repo (counted from the git tree); the repo holds no hooks, agents, commands or MCP server files, and 14 of its skills bundle a script. Pick one route per agent.

From the project README. Source.

What's in the skill

When it loads

Prepares a guest for someone else's technical podcast, YouTube interview, livestream or panel - show reconnaissance, the angle, an ABT message spine backed by evidence and stories, a self-contained opening answer, clip-safe sound bites, depth calibration, recording-day mechanics, and the post-publication promotion loop. Use whenever someone says "podcast guest prep", "I'm going on a podcast next week", "youtube interview prep", "devrel media training", "prep my talking points", "sound bites", "I'm on a panel", or "what do I say when they ask about competitors" - even if they only mention an upcoming recording. Not running your own show - use samber/dev-event-organizer-skills@tech-podcast-youtube-channel.

Sections in SKILL.md

  1. Invocation and output
  2. Interview
  3. How much prep this appearance warrants
  4. Step 1 - Show reconnaissance
  5. Step 2 - Angle selection
  6. Step 3 - Message spine
  7. Step 4 - Story bank
  8. Step 5 - The opening answer
  9. Step 6 - Depth calibration
  10. Step 7 - Sound bites
  11. Step 8 - Answers and hard questions
  12. Step 9 - Format adaptation
  13. Step 10 - Disclosure and promotion etiquette
  14. Step 11 - Recording-day card
  15. Step 12 - Promotion loop
  16. Measurement

Key facts

Author
Samuel Berthe (named in SKILL.md metadata, LICENSE and the plugin manifest)
License
MIT (LICENSE file, SKILL.md frontmatter, plugin.json and marketplace.json agree)
Skill version
1.0.3 (SKILL.md metadata)
Installs on skills.sh
12,472 (Nov 2, 2026)
GitHub stars
8 for the whole samber/developer-relations-skills repo (Nov 2, 2026)
Last repo commit
Nov 1, 2026
Audits on skills.sh
Gen Agent Trust Hub: pass, Socket: pass, Snyk: warn
What it includes
6 files in the git tree: SKILL.md, evals/evals.json and 4 files under references/. No scripts.
Needs
SKILL.md lists nothing to install
Part of
The developer-relations-skills plugin: 93 skill folders in the git tree
Works in
The README documents installs for Claude Code, Claude.ai, Codex, Cursor and Gemini CLI, all for the whole set

What it includes

  • Asks up to 13 questions, one at a time, and the first four gate all drafting.

    Interview

  • Ranks the 12 steps by on-air value per hour and drops steps for a short prep ceiling.

    Prep ranking

  • Reads the feed and episode pages for recurring threads and host profiles.

    Reads the feed, episode list and Apple Podcasts page to find recurring threads, show profile and host profiles.

    Step 1: Show reconnaissance

  • Picks an angle, writes a one-sentence spine and builds 5-8 stories.

    Picks an angle, writes one And-But-Therefore sentence and builds 5-8 stories with real numbers.

    Steps 2-4: Angle, spine, story bank

  • Writes a first answer that works when clipped, around 30 seconds for video.

    Step 5: Opening answer

  • Sets depth by listener type, drafts sound bites and prepares eight hard questions.

    Calibrates depth by listener type, drafts 5-8 sound bites and prepares eight predicted questions.

    Steps 6-8: Depth, sound bites, hard questions

  • Adapts to the recording format and sets the affiliation and pitch rules.

    Adapts to edited, live, audio, video, panel or roundtable, and sets the affiliation and pitch rules.

    Steps 9-10: Format and disclosure

  • Produces a one-page bullet card and a promotion plan for after publication.

    Produces a one-page card of bullets and a before, during and after publication promotion plan.

    Steps 11-12: Recording card and promotion

  • Requires five checks, such as three sound bites that survive a cold read.

    Five checks the brief must hold before it is final, such as three sound bites that survive a cold read.

    Pass threshold

From the official docs

Permissions

Low risk

tech-podcast-interview-prep is interview and planning instructions with no scripts, and it may save notes to devrel-context.md.

What it can do

  • Read your data
  • Create and change things
  • Delete things
  • Read-only mode

Watch out for

  • Embargoed or unreleased details can end up in notes

    The interview asks what is off-limits, such as embargoed releases and unnamed customers. If you list them, they go into the conversation and possibly devrel-context.md, so check the file before you commit it. github.com

  • It may save notes to devrel-context.md

    SKILL.md tells Claude to keep task and project context in devrel-context.md when memory lives in a file, or in the memory system your tool already uses. Check the file before you commit it. github.com

  • The whole-set install adds 93 skills, 14 with scripts

    The README says to install every skill. The git tree has 93 skill folders, and 14 of them hold .py or .sh files. This skill bundles no scripts, and the tree holds no hooks, agents or MCP config files. github.com

Technical details
Turning on read-onlySKILL.md describes no read-only mode.
Sign-in and keysSKILL.md names no account, key or token.
Scopes

  • Claude writes a prep brief in the conversation

  • The show, hosts, topic and off-limits items you give it go into the conversation

  • Writes devrel-context.md when memory lives in a file

Questions

What does tech-podcast-interview-prep do?

It prepares you to be a guest on someone else's technical podcast, YouTube interview, livestream or panel. It ends with a prep brief: messages, a story bank, an opening answer, sound bites, hard-question answers, a recording-day card and a promotion plan.

How do I install it?

Use the install box at the top. The README says to install every skill in the repo, because the skills point to each other. The box shows the whole-set route for each app.

Does it need an API key or account?

SKILL.md names no account, key or token. It tells Claude to read the show's public feed and episode pages, and to search the web if it can browse.

I only have an evening. Is it still useful?

Yes. SKILL.md ranks the steps by on-air value per prep hour. For one evening it does the spine, the opening answer, hard questions and a recon pass from the RSS feed, and it tells you which steps it dropped.

Is it safe to install?

The skill bundles no scripts. What you tell it about unreleased news, customers or numbers goes into your conversation, and SKILL.md asks you for an off-limits list in the interview. The whole-set install adds 93 skills, 14 of which bundle scripts.

What if I want to run my own show instead?

This skill is for guests. SKILL.md points hosting your own show to samber/dev-event-organizer-skills@tech-podcast-youtube-channel, and pitching hosts to samber/developer-relations-skills@tech-press-relations.

Information

updated Nov 2, 2026

Repository
samber/developer-relations-skills
Folder
skills/tech-podcast-interview-prep

samber/developer-relations-skillsskills.sh

Sources

Docs, issue trackers and discussions this page is built from.

Show all 3
  1. README · github.com
  2. tech-podcast-interview-prep SKILL.md · github.com
  3. LICENSE · github.com

Updated Nov 2, 2026.