Interview Me

For a direct invocation, use shared/references/model-preview.md to choose the branch first. Coordinator work and deterministic commands proceed within invocation authority. An actual worker branch uses one approved route snapshot. Nested calls reuse it without route selection or added workers.

Turn a raw request into a spec-ready decision record that to-prd can turn into a PRD without reopening requirements. A material decision is spec-ready only when it is confirmed, settled by supplied scope and evidence in --auto mode, or out of scope. An explicit default is allowed only for a nonmaterial uncertainty.

Use shared/references/workflow-measurement.md for the feature measurement record and capture API. Keep each stage's execution ledger and immutable plan intact. Create the feature measurement record with start and only known identity fields before the first round, then capture stage-start for interview-me. In --auto, import the reconciled completed role ledger through stage-ledger with its actual path and hash. Capture stage-end when the decision record is ready for the PRD, and pass the feature measurement path onward.

Boundary

Receive a feature request, an earlier exploration, and repository facts. Produce .ai-workflow/work/<feature-slug>/decision-record.md with status draft while the interview is open and ready-for-prd when the frontier is empty.

Use shared/references/workflow-stage-routing.md when a broad lens can change a frontier decision. Apply the selected lens in this interview. Dispatch an independent specialist only for a material risk or unresolved question under its approved route. Use security-gate for an exposed security surface. Use to-prototype only when running code is the smallest reversible move that can settle a decision.

Modes

Use a supplied or inherited mode. When no mode is supplied, manual mode is the safe scoped default. Ask only when a mode changes scope, cost, permitted effects, or an unresolved decision. Silence does not authorize --auto.

Manual mode asks the user the questions in this skill and creates no automatic roles or runner calls. --auto is an opt-in two-role interview. Read references/auto-mode.md before dispatch. The coordinator records one concrete route snapshot for its actual calls. Both roles consume that snapshot without re-resolving a route or adding a worker. --auto authorizes the selected default pair to make evidence-based answers within the supplied scope. A changed route, models-consensus, implementation, publication, or an irreversible external effect needs its own authority.