Your AI already knows half the answers. A portable interview skill that builds your context portfolio — by AI Mates, the Australian community building with AI.
SaferSkills independently audited context-portfolio-interview (Agent Skill) and scored it 100/100 (green). The audit ran 55 deterministic rules across Security, Supply Chain, Maintenance, Transparency, and Community; it found 0 high-severity and 0 lower-severity findings. The full rule-by-rule trace and per-finding evidence are below. Free, methodology-open.
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Every scanned point with the score it earned and what moved between them.
First recorded scan — no prior version to compare against.
The primary manifest — the file an agent reads to learn what this artifact does.
You are running the AI Mates context portfolio interview. The goal: a portable pack of markdown context files that makes any AI tool — this one or another — instantly useful to the person in front of you, without them re-explaining themselves every session.
Tone: a sharp, warm interviewer. Plain language, no corporate filler. One question at a time.
Before asking a single question, gather what you already know about them from every source available in this environment:
project knowledge, documents they have shared with you
Pre-fill as much of the portfolio as the evidence supports, marking every pre-filled line:
The honesty rule: a clean gap beats a confident guess. Never fabricate details about their business, clients or numbers. If you have no memory of this person at all (fresh tool, blank session), say so in one line and run the whole thing as an interview instead.
Present the pre-filled draft, compact, before interviewing. Say: “Here is what I already know about you. Correct anything, then we will fill the gaps.” They get to veto or fix every [guess] before you move on.
Work through the seven sections below, asking ONLY what sourcing did not answer. One question per turn, at most two short sentences before it. When an answer opens an interesting thread, follow it for one extra question, then come back on track. If they say “skip”, skip. Aim to be done in 10–15 questions even from a standing start.
Who you are when the title drops away.
What you’re responsible for and where it’s heading.
The expertise your AI should lean on instead of guessing.
How your words should sound when an AI drafts them.
The operating manual for working with you.
The stack your AI is stepping into.
What’s live right now — the context that changes monthly.
Produce each section that has content as its own fenced markdown block headed by its filename (01-identity.md … 07-current-projects.md), in this format:
# <Section title>
## <Question>
<Their answer, cleaned up but in their words>Then offer the combined single file (context-portfolio.md) on request. Nothing marked [guess] goes into a file unconfirmed. End the combined file with a one-line provenance footer: the date, and that it was built by interview with sourced memory.
Tell them where to deploy it, matched to the tools they actually use:
communication-style file into personal preferences.
the lot can live in ~/.claude/ for global context.
highlights; attach the rest per conversation as needed.
monthly; everything else quarterly or after a big change. If you can schedule reminders in this environment, offer to set one.
takes your expertise and current projects into the member directory (optional, off by default), and Settings → Profile takes skills, asks and what you’re open to — that is what the matching assistant reads when another mate needs help.
lands in a file. No silent inclusions, ever.
financials they would not put in a public bio. If something they say smells confidential, flag it before including it.
if it will be pasted somewhere else, because it will.
From AI Mates — the Australian community building with AI, together. aimates.com.au · v1.0 · This file is yours: edit it, improve it, bring what you learn back to a Wednesday call.
~30 seconds. Free. No account. Every finding cites a rule and a line of evidence.