Brief interviewers before each interview
A one-page brief from the candidate's resume and work samples, with the focus for this round.
- On an event: Two hours before each interview in your calendar
What it does
The task
Find the interviews in my Google Calendar that start in the next 2 hours and have no brief yet. For each one, open the candidate in Greenhouse and read the resume, the application answers, the earlier scorecards and the work samples or GitHub links that the candidate sent. Write a brief of one page: background, strengths and gaps for the job, open questions from earlier rounds, and the focus for this round from the interview plan. Use only what the candidate and the team wrote. Save it as a Google Doc and add the link to the event.
- It works in Google Calendar, Greenhouse, GitHub and Google Docs, in the workspace you pick, and signs in with passwords from your Cuiar vault.
- A routine checks every 15 minutes and acts on what is new: two hours before each interview in your calendar.
What you get back
An example run. Your run uses your own data.
Brief: A. Kowalski, Senior Backend Engineer, technical interview at 14:00
Background: 7 years of Go. Built the ledger service at Fintrail, 2021 to 2026.
Strengths: double-entry ledger design, Postgres at 2 TB, led on-call
Gaps: no Stripe or card network work in the resume
From the phone screen (Nadia): "Strong on data models. Ask about incident handling."
Work sample: a ledger library on GitHub, 340 stars, last commit September 2026
Focus for this round: design of a refund flow, testing approach
Saved as a Google Doc and linked in the event.
Run it in Cuiar
- 01
Open it
Click Use in Cuiar on this page. The side panel opens with the task in the composer.
- 02
Read the task
Change any word you like before it runs.
- 03
Run it, then repeat it
Run sends it once. To run it two hours before each interview in your calendar, make a routine on cuiar.com/routines or with the CLI below.
As a routine, from the terminal
cuiar routines create "Brief interviewers before each interview" --schedule "*/15 * * * *" --time-zone Europe/Berlin \
"Find the interviews in my Google Calendar that start in the next 2 hours and have no brief yet. For each one, open the candidate in Greenhouse and read the resume, the application answers, the earlier scorecards and the work samples or GitHub links that the candidate sent. Write a brief of one page: background, strengths and gaps for the job, open questions from earlier rounds, and the focus for this round from the interview plan. Use only what the candidate and the team wrote. Save it as a Google Doc and add the link to the event."Run it from your AI agent
Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other MCP clients reach Cuiar at https://mcp.cuiar.com/mcp. Add the server one time, then ask for the task in plain words, or call create_routine yourself.
1. Add Cuiar to Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http cuiar https://mcp.cuiar.com/mcp2. Ask your agent
Use the Cuiar tool create_routine to run my "Brief interviewers before each interview" template.Setup for other agents: AI agents.
The tool call
{
"name": "create_routine",
"arguments": {
"name": "Brief interviewers before each interview",
"task": "Find the interviews in my Google Calendar that start in the next 2 hours and have no brief yet. For each one, open the candidate in Greenhouse and read the resume, the application answers, the earlier scorecards and the work samples or GitHub links that the candidate sent. Write a brief of one page: background, strengths and gaps for the job, open questions from earlier rounds, and the focus for this round from the interview plan. Use only what the candidate and the team wrote. Save it as a Google Doc and add the link to the event.",
"schedule": "*/15 * * * *",
"time_zone": "Europe/Berlin"
}
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