Interview Framework
Should be used when a Ralph phase must identify critical user decisions, run a layered...
Install
npx skills add tzachbon/smart-ralph --skill interview-framework -g -a claude-code -y- Repository
- tzachbon/smart-ralph566
- Category
- Engineering
- Updated
- 8d ago
- License
- MIT
- Context cost
- Mediumabout 2,143 tokens
- Runs scripts
- No, instructions only
What it does
This skill should be used when a Ralph phase must identify critical user decisions, run a layered grill, persist partial answers, obtain explicit approval, or resume an interrupted phase interview before delegating artifact work.
Interview Framework
Treat every normal-mode interview governed by this framework as a grill. Run the approval-gated interview for start, triage, research, requirements, design, and tasks. Treat this skill and its references as the single source of truth for interview behavior. Phase commands supply exploration territory and artifact context; they do not redefine the algorithm.
Quick mode bypasses interview questions only. It still requires current discovery, contract loading, bypass receipts, delegation checks, and artifact-agent load parity.
Entry Contract
Before each new or resumed interview:
- Complete the applicable skill discovery pass from
${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/normal-mode-gates.md. - Reload this entire
SKILL.md,references/algorithm.md,references/domain-modeling.md, every selected skill body, and every selected skill resource required for the current work. Loadreferences/examples.mdonly when an example is needed. - Record the load manifest with
phase_gate.py record-skill-load. - Begin or resume the interview with the matching phase, interview ID, discovery revision, and context digest.
Block when this skill or the core algorithm reference cannot be loaded. Warn and continue when a domain skill fails to load. Put unresolved material conflicts in the first critical frontier.
Critical Decision Test
Grill only a decision that meets both conditions:
- The answer cannot be established by inspecting the project, prior artifacts, configuration, or selected skill contracts.
- Different answers would materially change scope, observable behavior, architecture, risk acceptance, delivery sequencing, or the acceptance standard.
