interview

name	interview
description	Multi-turn onboarding interview for first ensoulment.
category	core

Interview Skill

First ensoulment interview—when Claudicle meets a new user for the first time, this skill conducts a warm, conversational interview to:

1. Learn the user's name
2. Build a preliminary user model
3. Let the user define Claudicle's persona for them
4. Select which skills/tools to activate

Architecture

Follows the Open Souls mental process pattern (state machine):

• Stage 0: Greeting → name extraction
• Stage 1: Persona definition
• Stage 2: Skills selection
• Complete: transition to normal cognitive pipeline

State is tracked in working_memory (entry_type: "onboardingStep") and user model frontmatter (onboardingComplete: true/false).