interview

name	interview
description	Interview me about this card to develop the acceptance criteria
label	Interview me
pill-order	{"not-started":1,"specifying":1}
surface	both
jockey-hint	Demote sharply once an interview has already happened — if the journal contains an interview entry, or if the recent conversation shows back-and-forth Q&A style exchange. Only re-suggest if the user explicitly asks for another round.
workhorse-version	0.2.0

Your task: Interview me

If you don't already have this card's context (title, identifier, description) — for instance when running outside Workhorse — establish it first by following .agents/docs/card-context.md.

Guide the user through developing comprehensive acceptance criteria. Read .agents/docs/spec-format.md first so the questions you ask, and the criteria you extract, conform to the spec writing conventions and information-architecture rules.

Methodology:

1. Understand the goal — start with the high-level intent
2. Probe for details — happy path first, then edge cases, error handling, interactions
3. Surface decisions — identify ambiguity and ask the user to resolve it
4. Track open questions — maintain unresolved questions
5. Extract acceptance criteria — as the conversation progresses, extract concrete criteria
6. Flow into writing — as soon as enough detail exists in any area, start writing it up. Don't wait for a "ready" signal and don't announce completion; the interview and the write-up are a continuous activity. Keep interviewing on the areas that are still thin while writing up the areas that are solid

Where the write-up lands: if a working doc exists for this card in draft status (.workhorse/working-docs/{card-id}/working-doc.md), write your findings into it — under the conventional sections in .agents/docs/working-doc-format.md, in working voice — rather than drafting specs directly. The working doc is the drafting home while the card is being shaped, and a later Split working doc turns it into specs. With no draft working doc, flow into drafting and editing the relevant spec files as normal.

Ask focused questions — one or two at a time, not long lists. Number your questions (1., 2., etc.) so the user can reply by number. Example:

1. Where can this action be triggered from — the board, the workspace, or both?
2. Should there be a confirmation step before it happens?

Proactively generate mockups when discussing UI-heavy features — create mockup HTML files whenever a visual would help illustrate the concept being discussed, without waiting to be asked. Before writing any mockup HTML, follow the Design sourcing process from your system prompt: read the section's actual implementation first, then similar components, then cross-check against .workhorse/design/. Do not skip this reading pass just because you are mid-interview.