interview
SolidAligns on the scope of a request before any plan or implementation begins — the requirements-elicitation interview a senior engineer runs before touching code. Restates the request and diffs it against the user's words, researches the codebase so questions are specific, surfaces unknowns, non-goals, edge cases, and success criteria, then runs a batched clarifying-question interview only when research cannot resolve the ambiguity (adaptive — stays silent when the request is already crisp). Produces a confirmed brief.md artifact that downstream planning consumes, plus a readiness verdict (ready / ready-with-assumptions / blocked). Convergent and pre-plan: hands option-generation to /ideate, plan review to /critical, and scoring to /confidence. Use before autonomous work, before planning, or when a request feels underspecified. Triggers on "align on scope", "interview me", "clarify the request", "scope this", "scope alignment", "before we plan", "/interview".
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Quality Score: 84/100
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- Author
- mthines
- Repository
- mthines/agent-skills
- Created
- 3 months ago
- Last Updated
- 2 days ago
- Language
- TypeScript
- License
- MIT
Similar Skills
Semantically similar based on skill content — not just same category
plan-interview
Use BEFORE writing any implementation plan for behavior-changing work — plan mode, a direct feature/fix ask, or pre-flight for a dev-pipeline ticket. Surfaces the load-bearing design decisions to the engineer while the plan is forming and emits the Decision Ledger the plan gates require. Not for typo/mechanical fixes.
interview-me
Interview the user about a plan or decision through structured one-at-a-time questioning until reaching consensus. Produces a design brief artifact or hands off when the user signals readiness. Use when an idea is vague and needs shaping before planning or implementation begins. Trigger this when someone says: interview me, help me think through this, I have an idea but I don't know how to approach it, ask me questions about this, what should I be thinking about here. Do NOT use when the task is already well-scoped — use /plan instead.
interview
Extracts what the user actually wants before any options, plan, or code. One question at a time with a stated hypothesis until an explicit yes on a restated intent (outcome, user, success, constraint, out of scope). Use when the ask is underspecified, missing who/why/success/constraint, or the user says 'interview me', 'grill me', 'before we start', 'are we sure', 'align first'. Pass --grill to walk an existing plan or idea. Pass --wayfinder (or 'chart this', 'work the map', 'this is huge', 'we'll be at this for a while') when the deciding will not fit one session - a shared map of decision tickets. Do not use for unambiguous mechanical edits, pure info questions, or solution-space exploration (vd:brainstorm).