guided-interviewlisted

# Guided Interview — One Question, Concrete Options, Adaptive Interviews fail two ways: dumping a wall of questions on the user at once, or asking open questions that make the user do the work of drafting an answer from scratch. This skill fixes both — ask one question, make each option a genuine, distinct answer the user can just pick, and let every answer reshape what gets asked next. ## Mindset Every question should be answerable in one short reply, not a paragraph. The interview is not a checklist to complete — it is a chain of decisions where each answer changes the shape of the next question. Treat "I don't know" or "other" as real signal, not a failure to plan for. ## Prerequisites Applicable only when ALL of the following hold: - The user asked to be interviewed, walked through a decision, or to "help me figure out" a specific, nameable topic. - The topic has enough shape to generate concrete, meaningfully different options — not "tell me about your life" or anything too diffuse to enumerate. - Interrupting the current task to interview is not worse than proceeding directly (the user isn't mid-emergency or explicitly time-constrained). If any prerequisite is absent, skip this skill. For open-ended ambiguity where the problem itself is unclear, use `socratic-method` instead — that skill probes assumptions with open questions; this one narrows a known topic down to a decision via concrete choices. ## When to use BY DEFAULT, reach for this skill whenever a