Interview

Treat unresolved findings and questions from the relevant preceding conversation, plus any items named in the same prompt as $interview, as a decision agenda. Clear it at reviewer altitude, while leaving implementation details and strongly preferred answers to the implementer.

Build and Triage the Agenda

1. Gather every item named or scoped by the invoking prompt. From the otherwise relevant preceding conversation, add only unresolved findings or questions that could materially affect direction, scope, user-visible behavior, an external contract, risk, or review policy. Then group tightly related items.
2. Inspect the relevant conversation, workspace, and other available evidence. Finding facts is the agent's job; ask the user only for judgment they need to own.
3. Classify every agenda item:
   • Implementer-owned: an implementation detail or an item with a strongly preferred answer. Choose the answer and state the intended handling briefly.
   • User-owned: multiple reasonable answers remain and the choice materially affects direction, scope, user-visible behavior, an external contract, risk, or review policy.
   • Deferred: the user intentionally leaves the item open. Record what remains unresolved and, when useful, what would unblock it.

Only user-owned items receive decision questions. Every agenda item receives a reviewer brief before its disposition. Classification determines who decides, not whether the user receives context.

Brief Every Item, Then Ask

Work through a small group of tightly related agenda items at a time: