# asb-interview-debrief

Turns raw notes or transcripts from a single customer call into a concise debrief mapped directly to numbered interview questions.

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- Author: asmartbear
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- Source: https://github.com/asmartbear/asb-skills/tree/HEAD/.claude/skills/asb-interview-debrief/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-22
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/asb-interview-debrief

## What it does

The skill processes raw material from exactly one customer conversation, whether it is an audio transcript or hasty notes. It avoids lengthy essays and builds a tight debrief file. Each response takes one to three lines and maps to numbered interview questions like `Q1` or `Q2` tied to hypothesis tags like `H1`. Exact customer terminology is preserved in quotation marks.

Questions never reached during the call are marked as skipped rather than inferred. Unscripted observations go into a dedicated addenda section with hypothesis tags when relevant. When a respondent starts speculating on behalf of the broader market, the skill records the remark with a market-guru flag to separate opinion from direct experience.

The skill requires a pre-existing list of numbered questions and hypotheses to function properly. It handles only single conversations. It will not write hypotheses before calls, nor will it synthesize trends across multiple completed interviews.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add asmartbear/asb-skills --skill asb-interview-debrief -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/asb-interview-debrief/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/asb-interview-debrief/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add asmartbear/asb-skills --skill asb-interview-debrief -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/asb-interview-debrief/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add asmartbear/asb-skills --skill asb-interview-debrief -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/asb-interview-debrief/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install asmartbear/asb-skills asb-interview-debrief
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/asb-interview-debrief/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add asmartbear/asb-skills --skill asb-interview-debrief -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/asmartbear/asb-skills --path .claude/skills/asb-interview-debrief
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/asb-interview-debrief/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add asmartbear/asb-skills --skill asb-interview-debrief -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/asmartbear/asb-skills/tree/HEAD/.claude/skills/asb-interview-debrief/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- convert messy interview transcripts into concise per-question debrief files
- capture customer vocabulary and exact quotes without paraphrasing
- log unscripted discoveries and surprises in a tagged addenda section
- flag speculative market-guru comments to isolate first-hand evidence

## Example prompts
- Here is the transcript from my customer call, map it against questions Q1 through Q10.
- Process my raw call notes into a structured debrief file with exact quotes.
- File this conversation against our hypothesis tags, skipping any questions we didn't ask.

## Source text · SKILL.md · CC-BY-4.0

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name: asb-interview-debrief
description: "Facilitates the learning step of a proven customer-interview method — the recording half: turning raw material from ONE customer conversation (transcript, notes, memory dump) into a brief per-person debrief file, mapped against the numbered interview-question list (Q1, Q2, … with H-number tags). One concise answer per question actually asked, key phrases kept verbatim, unasked questions honestly skipped, a one-line commentary only where in-the-moment context helps later analysis, and an addenda section for everything heard that fit no question. Load when the user has just done a customer interview and says 'here's the transcript,' 'process my call notes,' 'file this conversation against my questions,' or 'add this interview to the record.' Do NOT load for writing goals, hypotheses, or interview questions (earlier steps), for synthesizing patterns across multiple interviews and updating hypotheses (the next step), or for summarizing meetings or transcripts unrelated to customer interviews."
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# Interview Debrief: One Conversation, On the Record

An interview that isn't put on the record promptly gets misremembered —
confirmation bias quietly keeps the parts the interviewer liked and drops
the rest. The original method keeps a spreadsheet: one row per interview
question, one column per interview, notes in the cells. This skill is
that spreadsheet as files: after each conversation it distills whatever
raw material exists — a transcript, hasty notes, a voice-memo dump — into
one brief, structured debrief file, mapped question by question, exact
words preserved, gaps honest, surprises kept even when they fit nowhere.
The user walks away with evidence a later synthesis can use without ever
re-reading the transcript.

## The mental model

### The record turns anecdote into evidence

The interview method chains numbered artifacts: goal questions (G1,
G2, …) that the user needs answered but can't ask directly; hypotheses
(H1, H2, …), the user's falsifiable best guesses, mapped to goals; and
open-ended interview questions (Q1, Q2, …), each a miniature experiment
mapped to the hypotheses it tests. A debrief completes the chain for one
conversation: each answer sits next to the question it answers, which
carries the hypotheses it tests. Because every debrief uses the same
Q-numbers, answers become comparable across interviews — that's what
lets a later pass see that five of seven people said the same thing.
Unmapped notes are anecdotes; mapped notes are evidence.
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