Interview

Skill control-decks/think-it-through/plugins/think-it-through/skills/interview

A conversation-card deck for exploring, challenging, planning, and explaining ideas with AI.

Install

npx -y skills add control-decks/think-it-through --skill interview

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Build shared understanding through a multi-turn interview about the smallest current subject with important missing information, asking one focused question at a time. Use only when the user invokes interview or asks to be interviewed for understanding; never start it silently.

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🔎 Think Interview

ID: think-it-through/interview
HACP: 0.4
Kind: operation
Mode: transform
Traits: read-only, semantic, multi-exchange
Default Binding: Smallest current subject with important missing information
Accepts: hacp/content, hacp/result
Produces: think-it-through/shared-understanding
Duration: until-complete

Effect: Resolve discoverable facts, ask one focused question at a time, and adapt each question to the preceding answer until understanding is sufficient.

Limits: Keep the selected Binding until completion, stop, or redirection. Stay neutral; do not challenge, recommend, or become adversarial testing.

Flow

flowchart TD
    A["Selected Binding"] --> B["Reconstruct what is known"]
    B --> C["Find smallest important gap"]
    C --> D["Search available sources"]
    D --> E{"Gap remains?"}
    E -->|No| F["Complete shared understanding"]
    E -->|Yes| G["Ask one focused question"]
    G --> H["Integrate the answer"]
    H --> I{"Understanding sufficient?"}
    I -->|Yes| F
    I -->|No| C

Format

At launch, show the full trace: > 🎯 **<binding>** → 🔎 **INTERVIEW**. On later turns, show > 🔎 **INTERVIEW** · <binding>.

Show Question. Add Why it matters only when the reason is unclear. At completion, state the shared understanding without a recommendation.