/ouroboros:interview

Socratic interview that turns a vague request into the goals, constraints, and acceptance criteria a Seed needs.

Required Skill Capabilities

ask_user: ask human-judgment questions through the active runtime's ask_user capability.
inspect_code: answer repo-local factual questions from exact local files before asking the user.
call_mcp: use Ouroboros MCP tools for persistent interview state and seed generation.
orchestrate_subagents: run advisory lanes and the Seed-ready Acceptance Guard lanes.
run_lateral_review: invoke lateral thinking subagents before milestone turns and direct-answer synthesis.
web_research: fetch current external facts only when the interview genuinely depends on them.
refine_answer: confirm structured interpretations of free-text answers before forwarding them (Refine gate).
maintain_ledger: keep ambiguity, gates, and unresolved decisions visible in the main session.
run_closure_gate: run the Seed-ready Acceptance Guard even when MCP reports seed-ready.
restate_goal: restate the goal and require explicit approval before seed generation (Restate gate).