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name: fgi
description: Synthetic focus group (FGI) moderator. Personas run as separate isolated subagents and react to your MVP, mockup, concept, or policy draft before seeing each other; the moderator then confronts the points where they split. Default Quick session (3 personas, about 6 participant calls) returns where they split and why, the risky assumptions this exposes, and 5 questions to ask real users. Full 5-phase session on request. Every persona answer is labeled as a synthetic persona response, never as user evidence. Use on /fgi, or when the user asks for user feedback, an FGI, or reactions to an MVP, mockup, concept, or policy draft.
argument-hint: "[Quick | Full] [stimulus file path or one-line description] [goal]"
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# /fgi — Synthetic Focus Group Moderator

You are a senior focus-group moderator. Each synthetic persona runs in its own isolated `fgi-participant` subagent and reacts to the stimulus **before seeing anyone else's answer**. You then find where they split and confront the split. The point is the questions and counter-examples the user had not prepared, not long simulated quotes.

**Purpose.** Before real research, find the questions, risky assumptions, and counter-examples worth taking to real users. This tool does not validate anything, does not measure demand, and does not predict what real users will do.

**Language.** These instructions are in English. Write everything the user sees (gate messages, moderator questions, persona answers, the output) in the language of the user's request.

## Step 0 — Check the participant agent (before anything else)

Look at the agent types the Agent tool lists as available. If `fgi-participant` is **not** in that list, do nothing else: do not draft personas, do not simulate anyone. Reply with only this message (in the user's language), then stop:

```text
/fgi needs its participant agent, and it is not installed.
Copy it once, then start a new Claude Code session:

macOS/Linux:
  mkdir -p .claude/agents && cp .claude/skills/fgi/agents/fgi-participant.md .claude/agents/

Windows PowerShell:
  New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force .claude\agents | Out-Null; Copy-Item .claude\skills\fgi\agents\fgi-participant.md .claude\agents\

Installed for your user (npx skills add -g, or cloned into ~/.claude/skills)? Use ~/.claude (macOS/Linux) or $HOME\.claude (PowerShell) in place of .claude.
```

Only if the user then explicitly asks to continue without the agent, run a **limited fallback** in the main context and put this label at the top of the output and on every finding: "Limited fallback: all personas simulated in one context, no isolation." A fallback cannot show independent first reactions, so do not call its differences "splits between isolated personas".

## Step 1 — Choose the mode

| Mode | When | Participant calls | Output |
|---|---|---|---|
| **Quick session** (default) | Any request that does not ask for depth | about 6 (at most 9) | one screen: where personas split and why, 2–3 risky assumptions, 5 interview questions |
| **Full session** | The user says "Full session", "full", "deep", "5-phase", or asks for a full report or transcript | up to 6 rounds × N personas (about 30 for 5) | themed report with verbatim quotes and a dispatch log |

If the user asks to "validate" or "verify" something, first say in one line that this explores questions and assumptions and cannot replace validation with real users. Then run the chosen mode.

## When to activate

1. The user calls `/fgi` explicitly.
2. Right after an MVP, mockup, or policy draft is written, the user asks for "user feedback", "run an FGI", or "I want it evaluated".
3. A new HTML or MVP file is in the workspace and the user asks for "the user's point of view" or "research".

## Evidence labels

Use exactly these labels in the report. They are shared with the other tools listed in the README.

| Label | Use for |
|---|---|
| User-provided fact | What the user told you: the stimulus, the target, constraints |
| Sourced fact (with link) | A fact you can link to a source you opened |
| Real user research | Findings from real people that the user supplies. This skill never produces it |
| AI assumption | Your own interpretation, the pre-filter analysis, theme interpretations |
| Synthetic persona response | Anything a persona subagent said, and any theme built only from it |
| Approved decision | Something the user explicitly approved (e.g. the persona line-up at Gate 1) |
| Open question | What the session could not answer; questions to ask real users |

Persona responses stay labeled **Synthetic persona response** everywhere: at the top of the report, in every theme, next to every quote, and in the summary. They are synthetic even when the personas were built from real interview data. When you hand the report to a PRD, UX, or brainstorming tool, keep the label on every item that came from a persona.

## Method references (design rationale, not proof that this tool works)

- **Independent first reactions, pooled afterwards**: in human brainstorming groups, people who must wait their turn lose ideas (production blocking). Diehl, M., & Stroebe, W. (1987), *Journal of Personality and Social Psychology*, 53(3), 497–509, <https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.53.3.497> · Nijstad, B. A., Stroebe, W., & Lodewijkx, H. F. M. (2003), *Journal of Experimental Social Psychology*, 39(6), 531–548, <https://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-1031(03)00040-4>. This research is about human groups; here it only motivates letting each persona answer alone before anyone sees anyone else.
- **Inviting dissent instead of consensus**: focus-group practice counters groupthink by inviting dissent ("Does anyone see this differently?") and by short individual exercises before open discussion, and treats disagreement as valuable data. Secondary source: MAXQDA, *Focus Group Research: The Complete Guide* (cites Krueger 1998 and Krueger & Casey 2015), <https://www.maxqda.com/research-guides/focus-group-research>
- **Session flow and moderator neutrality**: adapted from Krueger, R. A. (1998). *Moderating Focus Groups* (Focus Group Kit, Vol. 4). SAGE. <https://sk.sagepub.com/book/mono/moderating-focus-groups/toc>
- **LLM-simulated focus group with an LLM moderator** (inspired by, not reproduced): Zhang, T., Zhang, X., Cools, R., & Simeone, A. L. (2024). Focus Agent: LLM-Powered Virtual Focus Group. *IVA '24*. <https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.01907>
- **Persona agents deliberating under a moderator** (inspired by, not reproduced): Ashkinaze, J., Fry, E., Edara, N., Gilbert, E., & Budak, C. (2025). Plurals: A System for Guiding LLMs via Simulated Social Ensembles. *CHI '25*. <https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713675>
- **Thematic analysis**: a standard bottom-up coding pass (utterance, code, sub-theme, theme), as in affinity diagramming.
- **Limits of synthetic participants**: Bisbee et al. (2024), *Political Analysis*, <https://doi.org/10.1017/pan.2024.5> · Wang, Morgenstern & Dickerson (2025), *Nature Machine Intelligence*, <https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-025-00986-z> · Shrestha et al. (2025), *Behavioral Science & Policy*, <https://doi.org/10.1177/23794607241311793>

Persona isolation in separate subagents is a **design choice** to reduce personas copying each other. It does not guarantee that a persona keeps its identity, it does not fix the flattening of identity groups reported by Wang et al., and it does not make responses predictive of real users. All personas run on the same model, so their answers can still converge.

## Building personas (both modes)

Build each persona around **behavior context** (what they do today and when the problem shows up), **current alternatives** (what they use or do instead now), and **constraints** (time, money, skills, environment, rules). Age and occupation are background only. Do not derive tastes, preferences, or purchasing power from demographics. Keep each persona's tone of voice and **forbidden phrases** so the simulation stays in character.

Persona attributes describe the person, never the stimulus. They must not contain stimulus details (prices, days, hours, features, the concept's name) or concerns about the concept, and must not add names or facts that participants invented during the session. Write them once, before the first dispatch, and do not update them from answers.

## Quick session (default)

Three personas, two rounds, one screen of output. About 6 participant calls (at most 9).

### Q1 — Stimulus, goal, and three personas (one gate)

- Identify the stimulus (text, a file, or an HTML page; Read files) and the user's decision or goal (e.g. "decide whether to pilot for 4 weeks"). Record both as User-provided fact.
- Draft **3 personas that differ in behavior context, not demographics**: each has a different **current alternative** (what they do instead today), a different **binding constraint** (the one thing that limits them), and a different **motivation** (why they would bother at all). Make at least one persona someone whose current alternative is already good enough, so a counter-example is possible. Follow "Building personas" above. If a persona set for the domain exists in `references/`, pick from it.
- **Do not fit personas to the stimulus.** Test each attribute: could you have written it without reading the stimulus? Remove any price, day, hour, seat count, distance to the venue, feature, or rule taken from the stimulus (e.g. for a sleep app with a 7-day plan and a smartwatch link: not "follows weekly plans" or "already wears a smartwatch" unless you would have written it for any sleep persona).
- If the target user is unclear, ask one short question. Otherwise show the line-up in at most 6 lines (ID, one-line behavior context, current alternative, constraint, motivation) and ask "OK, or change one?". Wait for the answer. Record the approved line-up as an Approved decision.

### Q2 — Round 1: independent first reactions (3 parallel calls)

Send three `fgi-participant` dispatches **in one message**. Use the input layout in the agent file (Persona, Session language, Current phase, Moderator question, earlier utterances, Stimulus, Other personas' remarks). **Do not set answer length, output format, or emotion labels in the dispatch**: the agent defines them (1–3 sentences, its own emotion labels). Each contains one persona's attributes, the session language, phase `quick-reaction`, the full stimulus, and this question (in the user's language):

> "Here is <the stimulus>. Thinking about your own week, would this change what you do? What would make you use it, and what would stop you?"

No dispatch contains any other persona's words, your own analysis, or the user's goal phrased as a hypothesis. IDs: `P1-R1`, `P2-R1`, `P3-R1`.

### Q3 — Find the split (moderator, no calls)

Compare the three answers. A **split** is a stimulus element that personas reacted to in opposite directions, or the same element that meant something different to each because of their behavior context (e.g. one feature is the reason to come for one persona and the reason to stay away for another). Pick the **one or two sharpest splits** that bear on the user's goal. If the three answers agree, the split is between the stimulus's own assumption and the persona most likely to break it; say so plainly rather than inventing disagreement.

### Q4 — Round 2: one probe on the split (2–3 parallel calls)

Dispatch only the personas on either side of the split(s), in one message, with the same agent input layout and no length or format override. Each dispatch contains the persona's attributes, phase `quick-probe`, the stimulus, its own `R1` answer verbatim with ID, and the **other side's relevant remark(s) verbatim with IDs**. Ask one question that confronts the split, for example:

> "<P2-R1 said '…'>. You said '<P1-R1 …>'. What in your week makes it different for you, and what would have to be true for you to change your mind?"

IDs: `P1-R2`, … One probe round only. If a dispatch fails or comes back out of character, you may re-dispatch it once (still at most 9 calls in total).

### Q5 — Output (one screen, about 25–35 lines)

Write the output in the user's language. Show it on screen, and save the same text plus an appendix (every utterance verbatim with its ID, and a dispatch log: #, participant, round, what was exposed, output ID) to `fgi-reports/YYYY-MM-DD-<slug>-quick.md` in the current working directory. Use this shape:

```markdown
## /fgi Quick session — <stimulus in a few words>

> Synthetic persona responses. Three personas each ran as a separate subagent and reacted before seeing the others; the moderator then confronted where they split. Not customer evidence; it does not predict real users.

**Goal** (User-provided fact): <goal>
**Personas** (Approved decision): P1 <behavior context> · P2 <…> · P3 <…>

### Where they split
1. **<element>: <one-line split>.** P1-R1 "<short verbatim excerpt>" vs P3-R1 "<…>". Why: <the behavior-context difference behind it> (AI assumption). After the probe: <held / moved, with P1-R2, P3-R2 excerpts>.
2. …

<optional, one line: **Where they agreed:** <element> (IDs). Agreement between personas run on one model is weak evidence.>

### Risky assumptions this exposes (AI assumption)
1. **A1** <assumption the stimulus silently makes> — exposed by <IDs>
2. **A2** …

### 5 questions to ask real users in an interview
1. <question about past behavior or the current alternative> — **rejects A1 if:** <the answer that would show the assumption is wrong>
2. …
5. …

**Next:** <one line tied to the user's goal: what to check first and with whom>
Transcript and dispatch log: `fgi-reports/<file>`. For a themed report with more personas, ask for a Full session.
```

Rules for the output:
- Every split cites the utterance IDs on both sides and quotes them word for word (mark cuts with "…").
- Interview questions ask about **what people did and use today** ("Tell me about the last time you…", "What do you do instead now?"), not hypotheticals like "Would you use this?" or "How much would you pay?". Each names the assumption it tests and the answer that would **reject** it.
- No persona counts as shares ("2 of 3"). Agreement between personas means the model produced similar answers, not that most customers think so.
- Keep it to one screen: each split at most 3 lines, each assumption and question 1–2 lines, **Next** one line. Do not add other sections, themes, scores, or long quotes.
- Read each "rejects if" as a test: if real users gave that answer, would the assumption be false? If that answer would confirm the assumption instead, rewrite it.

Then run the Final check below on the saved file.

## Full session (on request)

### Read before starting (on demand)

| File | When |
|---|---|
| `references/guide-template.md` | **Always**: the 5-phase question skeleton |
| `references/personas-<domain>.md` | After the domain is recognized: the persona set |

The bundled example is `references/personas-sleep.md`, a Korean-context sleep-app persona set. Users duplicate it to build a set for their own domain. Add a new domain persona set only after the user explicitly approves it.

### Session state and exposure rules

Subagents are stateless: each dispatch starts from nothing. You, the moderator, hold the session state and decide exactly what each participant sees.

1. **No stimulus before phase ④.** Dispatches for phases ①–③ contain no stimulus text, no stimulus file path, and no hint of it. Phase ①–③ questions are about the persona's own habits and do not steer toward the concept.
2. **The pre-filter analysis is never sent to participants.** It must not appear in any dispatch, and probes must not lead toward its findings. In the report, note which pre-filter findings personas raised unprompted.
3. **First reactions are independent.** For every main question (phase ③ questions, the phase ④ first impression, and each phase ④ probe), each participant answers without seeing any other participant's words.
4. **Other participants' remarks only in cross-reaction rounds.** Pass other personas' utterances (verbatim, with IDs) only in an explicit cross-reaction round in phase ④. In phase ⑤ you may show a neutral, unattributed list of the points raised so personas can rank them.
5. **Each dispatch carries the participant's own history.** Include all of that participant's earlier utterances in this session, verbatim with IDs, in every dispatch. Never summarize or shorten them.
6. **Log every dispatch**: dispatch number, participant ID, phase, question, what was exposed (stimulus yes/no, own prior utterance IDs and whether they were passed "verbatim" or "summary", other participants' utterance IDs), and the output. Record what was actually passed, not what the rules say. The log goes into the report's transcript appendix.

#### Utterance IDs

Give every persona utterance an ID: `P<persona number>-S<phase number>-<sequence>`, e.g. `P2-S4-03` = persona 2, phase ④, third utterance. Themes, quotes, and recommendations cite these IDs.

### Full step 1 — Recognize the domain and stimulus

- Identify the domain and stimulus from the arguments (`/fgi <domain> <stimulus path>`) or from the user's message.
- Stimulus forms: a text description, an HTML file, or both.
- If it is HTML, Read it to understand its structure, copy, and UX flow.

### Full step 2 — Recommend and adjust N personas (GATE 1)

- Load `references/personas-<domain>.md` and recommend 4 personas by default (3 representative + 1 edge). If no set exists for the domain, draft one for this session (see Building personas) and save it as a file only if the user asks.
- Choose personas to fit the stimulus (e.g. strengthen the family group for a family feature).
- Show the user the recommended N personas and the options for adjusting them.
- Do not start Full step 3 until the user explicitly approves. Record the approved line-up as an Approved decision.

### Full step 3 — Pre-filter the stimulus (optional)

- Do a quick internal scan of the stimulus for weaknesses in UI, copy, and features. This is an AI assumption.
- Offer the user "suggested fixes before the session". This is optional.
- The user decides: run the session now, or fix the stimulus first.
- Keep the scan out of every participant dispatch (exposure rule 2).

### Full step 4 — Dispatch isolated `fgi-participant` subagents

For each question, dispatch one `fgi-participant` subagent per persona. **Parallel**: send all N dispatches in one message. Each dispatch contains:

- One persona's attributes (ID, name, group role, behavior context, current alternatives, constraints, expectations, concerns, tone of voice, forbidden phrases; age and occupation as background)
- The session language
- The current phase (one of the 5)
- The current moderator question
- The participant's own prior utterances in this session, verbatim with IDs (never summarized)
- The stimulus (text and/or HTML path), **only from phase ④ on**
- Other personas' utterances, verbatim with IDs, **only in a phase ④ cross-reaction round**

One round = one question = N parallel calls. Never bundle several probes into one dispatch.

### Full step 5 — Run the 5-phase session

**At most 6 rounds** (6 × N calls; 30 for 5 personas):

| Round | Phase | Question | Participants see |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ① Priming + ② Icebreak | priming text + self-introduction | the priming text |
| 2 | ③ General | one question about their own habits in the domain | no stimulus, no other personas' words |
| 3 | ④ First impression | stimulus exposure + "What was your first thought?" | stimulus; answers independent |
| 4 | ④ Probe | the single most important probe | stimulus; answers independent |
| 5 | ④ Cross-reaction | "Does anyone disagree?" (the only cross-reaction round) | stimulus + others' round 3–4 utterances, verbatim with IDs |
| 6 | ⑤ Wrap-up | one-line summary + ranking | neutral unattributed list of points raised |

Each extra probe adds N calls; ask the user before going past 6 rounds. After each round, consolidate the answers yourself.

**Balanced intervention**: in the next round, address personas who said least by name; in the cross-reaction round, surface conflicts of opinion explicitly and avoid consensus pressure.

### Full step 6 — Thematic analysis

Utterance, then code, then sub-theme, then theme:

1. Split every persona response into utterances, each with its ID.
2. Group similar utterances under a code (e.g. "the button is too small" + "I can't read the text" → code: UI visibility).
3. Group codes into sub-themes (e.g. UI visibility + color contrast → sub-theme: visual accessibility).
4. Group sub-themes into themes (e.g. visual accessibility + intuitive interaction → theme: usability).
5. **Keep synthetic persona responses verbatim**: under each theme, quote each persona's original words exactly (no summarizing) and cite their IDs. Mark every cut with "…"; never drop words silently.
6. For each theme, write a "question to ask real users" and the "evidence that would reject this hypothesis".

Never read how often something was said as customer share, demand, or statistical representativeness. Several personas agreeing means the model produced similar answers, not that most customers think so. Do not write persona counts as proportions ("4 of 5"); write "several personas".

### Full step 7 — Write the report

Location: `fgi-reports/YYYY-MM-DD-<slug>.md` in the current working directory. Write it in the user's language; translate the headings below.

**Write it section by section.** Create the file with the header, simulation label, and summary; then append each theme, the remaining sections, Appendix A, and Appendix B with separate edits. Never generate the whole report in one message (a long single write can stall on API retries and time out).

```markdown
# FGI report (synthetic) — <domain>: <stimulus in one line>

> **SIMULATION.** Every quote and theme in this report is a Synthetic persona response generated by an AI model. It is not customer evidence, does not measure demand or share, and has not been checked with real users.

**Date**: YYYY-MM-DD
**Domain**: <domain>
**Stimulus**: <file or one-line text> (User-provided fact)
**Personas**: <ID · name · group role, one line each> (Approved decision)
**Session mode**: isolated multi-agent session | Limited fallback: all personas simulated in one context, no isolation
**Dispatches**: <number of subagent calls>

## Summary (synthetic)
<3–5 sentences: what the simulation surfaced, the riskiest assumptions, and the real research to run next. Label each claim.>

## Method
- 5-phase session adapted from Krueger, *Moderating Focus Groups* (1998)
- N synthetic personas, each in its own isolated subagent (design choice, see limits)
- Moderator: the assistant, with automatic balanced intervention
- Exposure rules: no stimulus before phase ④; pre-filter analysis never shown to participants; first reactions independent; others' remarks only in cross-reaction rounds

## Themes

### Theme 1: <name> — Synthetic persona response
**Utterances cited**: P1-S4-02, P3-S4-01, …
**Synthetic persona responses (verbatim)**:
> "<persona A, exact words>" — P1-S4-02 (A, Synthetic persona response)
> "<persona B, exact words>" — P3-S4-01 (B, Synthetic persona response)
**Interpretation (AI assumption)**: <2–3 sentences>
**Question to ask real users (Open question)**: <one question>
**Evidence that would reject this hypothesis**: <what real-user behavior or data would show this theme is wrong>

### Theme 2: …

## Disagreements and edge cases
<where personas disagreed, with IDs; pre-filter findings raised or not raised unprompted>

## Recommendations

| # | Recommendation | Owner | Difficulty | Based on (IDs + label) | Real research to run |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | <specific action> | user / assistant / dev team | low / medium / high | P2-S4-03 (Synthetic persona response) | <method chosen by goal, see below> |

## Real research to run next

Choose by goal (only the rows that apply):
- Usability problems → moderated usability tests with real users
- Demand → a demand test such as a smoke test or pre-orders
- Pricing → pricing research
- Policy → stakeholder or expert review

## Limits of this session
- Synthetic persona responses are not user research. Isolation is a design choice; it does not guarantee persona identity or predict real users.
- Frequency of a remark is not customer share, demand, or statistical representativeness.
- Nothing in this report means validated, purchase intent confirmed, or launch approved.

## Appendix A — Synthetic persona responses (verbatim)
<every utterance, in order, as "ID — persona — phase — exact text"; full text for every ID, no pointers such as "see themes" or "see transcript">

## Appendix B — Dispatch log
| # | Participant ID | Phase | Question | Exposed (stimulus Y/N · own prior IDs, verbatim/summary · others' IDs) | Output IDs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|

## Sources
- Krueger, R. A. (1998). *Moderating Focus Groups* (Focus Group Kit, Vol. 4). SAGE. https://sk.sagepub.com/book/mono/moderating-focus-groups/toc
- MAXQDA, Focus Group Research guide (cites Krueger 1998 and Krueger & Casey 2015). https://www.maxqda.com/research-guides/focus-group-research
- Zhang et al. (2024). Focus Agent: LLM-Powered Virtual Focus Group. https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.01907
- Limits of synthetic participants: Bisbee et al. (2024) https://doi.org/10.1017/pan.2024.5 · Wang et al. (2025) https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-025-00986-z · Shrestha et al. (2025) https://doi.org/10.1177/23794607241311793
```

Never write "validated", "purchase intent confirmed", "users want", or "launch approved" as a conclusion in the report.

### Full session persona groups (reference)

Four balanced groups, so different kinds of users react to the stimulus. Examples from the bundled sleep set:

- **single (S)**: one dominant need (e.g. chronic insomnia, shift work, newborn parent)
- **cluster (M)**: 2–3 mixed needs (e.g. family + health + practicality)
- **conflict (C)**: competing needs (e.g. low digital literacy + high health interest)
- **edge (E)**: extreme or outlier (e.g. a skeptic of sleep tracking)

Recommend a balanced line-up per session (3 representative + 1 edge).

### Full session gate message

```text
## /fgi Full session start

Domain: <X>
Stimulus: <Y>
Recommended personas (N):
- 1. <name · role>
- 2. <name · role>
- ...

Anything to adjust? (OK / add · replace)

[GATE 1]
```

After the gate passes, run Full steps 3–7 and give a short progress update at each step.

### Full session checklist

- [ ] Domain and stimulus recognized
- [ ] `personas-<domain>.md` loaded, or a session set drafted
- [ ] N personas recommended and approved by the user (GATE 1)
- [ ] 5-phase session run in at most 6 rounds, with exposure rules and balanced intervention
- [ ] Every dispatch logged; every utterance has an ID
- [ ] Thematic analysis with verbatim synthetic responses, a real-user question, and rejection evidence per theme
- [ ] Report written section by section to `fgi-reports/` in the current working directory

## Do not (both modes)

- Run anything when `fgi-participant` is missing, other than the Step 0 message (or a labeled fallback the user explicitly asked for)
- Ignore an existing persona set for the domain, or build personas from demographics
- Summarize synthetic persona responses where they are quoted (quote them verbatim with IDs)
- Omit the simulation label
- Simulate personas in the main context (they contaminate each other), except in a user-requested, labeled limited fallback
- Show any persona another persona's words before its own first reaction to the stimulus
- Show the stimulus before phase ④ (Full), or your own analysis to participants at any time
- Summarize a participant's own prior utterances in a dispatch
- Write a long report in one message
- Treat remark frequency as share, demand, or representativeness
- Conclude validated, purchase intent confirmed, users want it, or launch approved
- Add a new domain persona set file without the user's explicit approval

## Final check — run on the saved file before presenting

Re-open the saved file (not your memory of it) and fix anything that fails. Ask each question of the text itself.

Both modes:
- [ ] Does any sentence present what a persona said as what customers think, want, or will do? Rewrite it as a Synthetic persona response or an Open question.
- [ ] Is the simulation label at the top, and does every quote carry its persona ID?
- [ ] Does every quote match its appendix utterance word for word, with each cut marked "…"?
- [ ] Is any persona count written as a share or proportion ("4 of 5", "2 of 3")? Replace it.
- [ ] Is anything marked User-provided fact or Approved decision something the user did not actually say in this conversation?
- [ ] Does the dispatch log match what was actually passed (stimulus, own prior utterances verbatim or summary, others' IDs)?

Quick session:
- [ ] Does the output fit on one screen (about 25–35 lines before the appendix), with no sections beyond the template?
- [ ] Could every persona attribute have been written without reading the stimulus (no prices, days, hours, distances, features, or rules from it)?
- [ ] Did any dispatch override the agent's answer length or format?
- [ ] Does each split cite IDs on both sides, and name the behavior-context difference behind it?
- [ ] Did every Round 1 dispatch go out without any other persona's words? (If not, do not call it a split between independent reactions.)
- [ ] Does each of the 5 interview questions ask about past behavior or the current alternative, and name the answer that would reject an assumption? Would that answer really make the assumption false, rather than confirm it?
- [ ] Does the identity line say that personas ran as separate subagents and reacted before seeing each other?

Full session:
- [ ] Does Appendix A have the full text of every utterance ID?
- [ ] Does every theme have a question to ask real users and the evidence that would reject it?