interview-synthesislisted
Install: claude install-skill AgLyx3/interview-synthesis
# Interview Synthesis
Turn customer interviews into a synthesis report that stays current as you keep interviewing.
Most synthesis workflows assume you finish all your interviews, then analyze. Real discovery
doesn't work that way — you talk to two people, learn something, talk to two more. This skill
is built for that: evidence accumulates permanently, interpretation is rebuilt from scratch
every time you ask for a report.
## The one rule that matters
**Append the evidence. Regenerate the interpretation.**
Coded excerpts are append-only — once P03's words are on disk with a participant ID, they never
change. That includes their code labels: when a code is later split or merged, the retirement is
declared in `codebook.md` and `scripts/tally.py` folds the counts at read time, rather than
anyone going back to relabel old excerpts. But themes, findings and the report are re-derived
from the *entire* evidence base every time, never edited in place.
This exists to defeat anchoring. If each new interview only ever gets filed under themes that
already exist, the study freezes around whatever the first two people happened to say, and
interview 9 that contradicts interview 2 gets quietly absorbed instead of breaking the theme
open. Re-deriving is cheap at this scale and keeps the report an honest reading of everything
you have.
## Workspace
All state lives in one directory, by default `research/<study-slug>/` under the current project.
Ask where it should go if it isn't obviou