interview-me skillA

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interview-me is agent-read markdown (skill) from nota-america/forgecat-agent-profiles: Extracts what the user actually wants instead of what they think they should want. Achieves this through one-question-at-a-time interview until ~95% confidence about the underlying intent. Use when an ask is underspecified ("build me X" without "for whom" or "why now"), when the user explicitly invokes ("interview me", "grill me", "are we sure?", "stress-test my thinking"), or when you catch yourself silently filling in ambiguous requirements before any plan, spec, or code exists..

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# Interview Me

## Overview

What people ask for and what they actually want are different things. They ask for "a dashboard" because that's what one asks for, not because a dashboard solves their problem. They say "make it faster" without a number to hit.

The cheapest moment to find this gap is before any plan, spec, or code exists. Once you've started building, switching costs are real, and the user will rationalize the wrong thing into a "good enough" thing. The misfit gets locked in.

This skill closes the gap before it costs anything. The other Define-phase skills assume you already know roughly what you want: `idea-refine` generates variations from an idea, `spec-driven-development` writes the requirements down, `doubt-driven-development` stress-tests a plan after you've drafted one. Interview-me is the part before all of those, where you ask one question at a time, with your best guess attached, until you can predict what the user is going to say before they say it.

## When to Use

Apply this skill when:

- The ask is missing at least one of: **who** the user is, **why** they want it, what **success** looks like, what the binding **constraint** is
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How to install

mdr add nota-america/forgecat-agent-profiles/interview-me@git:20260916.3a6b22e

mdr add nota-america/forgecat-agent-profiles/interview-me@sha256:1d94741d10d2c826

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GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_szonwl6xh6lyzfo3
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=nota-america/forgecat-agent-profiles/interview-me
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/1d94741d10d2c826cd0c191aea3981ee94c8abb27ef2a166f6a372117d06448f

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