# asb-interview-report

Distills a round of customer interviews into one FINAL-REPORT.md: what was validated, what got disproved, what stayed untested.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 631 installs · ★ 48
- Author: asmartbear
- License: CC-BY-4.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/asmartbear/asb-skills/tree/HEAD/.claude/skills/asb-interview-report/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-22
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/asb-interview-report

## What it does

This skill handles the last step of a customer-interview method. It reads `GOALS.md`, `HYPOTHESES.md`, `QUESTIONS.md` and a directory of per-interview debriefs, then writes a single `FINAL-REPORT.md` the whole company can use.

The top is a summary as short as possible without dropping anything salient. Each line carries three things: the status mark, the claim, the F-number. Below sit numbered findings tagged validated, disproved, directional, watch or untested. Every one cites its debriefs and quotes customers verbatim. Then come per-area briefs for ideal-customer definition, positioning, pricing, marketing and sales, and product priorities.

The hard rule is epistemic honesty. A disproved hypothesis is stated as knowledge, not buried. Strength is given in exact tallies like "7 of 9" rather than words such as "likely" or "often". When the evidence splits, the report names the choice instead of averaging it into a midpoint nobody asked for. It stops at evidence: the positioning, ideal-customer and pricing work it feeds happens elsewhere, and so do the synthesis and debrief steps.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

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

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

### Codex

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

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

### Cursor

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

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

### GitHub Copilot

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

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

### Gemini CLI

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

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

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add asmartbear/asb-skills --skill asb-interview-report -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-report/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- pull every interview debrief into one document
- separate confirmed findings from guesses
- surface disproved hypotheses instead of hiding them
- back each finding with verbatim customer quotes
- name the questions the interviews never resolved

## Example prompts
- write up what we found from the interviews into FINAL-REPORT.md
- summarize the interview results for the team
- turn the debriefs into a report with tags and quotes

## Source text · SKILL.md · CC-BY-4.0

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name: asb-interview-report
description: "Facilitates the final step of a proven customer-interview method: distilling everything a round of interviews produced (GOALS.md, HYPOTHESES.md, QUESTIONS.md, and a directory of per-interview debriefs) into a single FINAL-REPORT.md the whole company can use. Top: a summary as brief as possible without losing salient information. Below: numbered findings (F1, F2, …) tagged validated / disproved / directional / watch / untested, every one citing debriefs and quoting customers verbatim, plus per-area briefs that marshal the evidence for ideal-customer definition, positioning, pricing, marketing & sales, and product priorities. Load when the user says 'write up what we found from the interviews,' 'summarize the interview results for the team,' or 'turn the interviews into a report.' Do NOT load for updating hypotheses from interviews (the synthesis step), for recording one conversation (the debrief step), or for actually doing the positioning, ideal-customer, or pricing work the report feeds."
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# Interview Report: What You Know, What You Think

A round of interviews ends and the learning scatters: a hypothesis file
only its author can decode, debriefs nobody rereads, teammates asking
"so what did we actually find?" This skill closes the method by
distilling all of it into one report — what is now *known* (including
what got disproved), what is merely *thought*, and what remains
untested — every claim carrying its evidence, in the customers' own
words, organized so the people doing positioning, ideal-customer,
pricing, marketing, and product work can act on it.

## The mental model

### The report is the bridge from evidence to action

The interview method runs goals → hypotheses → questions → interviews →
learning. Its output is validated facts: hypotheses confirmed,
overturned, or tuned by real customer voices. Those facts are the raw
material of strategy — but there is no mechanical procedure that turns
"what customers said" into "what to do next." Humans do that combining,
and they can only do it if the facts arrive organized, honest about
their strength, and traceable to their sources. That package is this
report. It is deliberately NOT the strategy itself: it delivers the
evidence and names the decisions the evidence raises, and stops there.

### Two readers, one document

The report serves both at once:

- **The human skimmer** reads only the top. So the report opens with a
  summary that is as brief as possible without losing anything salient
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