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Acquire and improve an epistemically responsible account of what a person knows through adaptive conversation. Use before substantive interviewing, when an existing account must be corrected or extended with human knowledge, or when accounts conflict.
Passed 14 of 20 test cases with the skill, and 7 of 20 without it.
and 7 more in the full report
8 fixed6 passed either way5 still failing1 broke5 errored
Tokens, turns and time describe resource use, not a dollar price.
One of 8 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.
I want to start a session to capture how our customer support team triages escalation tickets. Ask me everything you need to know about our triage workflows, tools, SLA targets, and team structure so we can get this guide written quickly.
| Checked | Without skill | With skill |
|---|---|---|
| The response asks exactly one opening question. | Missed | Passed |
| The response omits a list or battery of multiple questions. | Missed | Passed |
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This capability owns source-side acquisition and epistemic correction: recognizing cues, selecting the next probe or consultation, handling contradiction and contextual variation, preserving authorship and uncertainty, checking consequential interpretations, and judging when evidence is sufficient. It teaches core's shared workpiece settlement and evidence protocol. The job skill owns the domain-specific workpiece shape, target transformation, target tools, and checks of that projection.
Follow the person's thread and the purpose they stated rather than any schema, template, or register order.
Deepen one answerable thread at a time. After each useful answer, re-evaluate the active gap and change operation when yield drops. Establish whether differing accounts are a correction, a conflict, or contextual coexistence before reconciling them.
Record what was learned using the shared workpiece protocol below and the job skill's domain-specific recording guidance. Return to the job skill for target transformation and checks.
The registers are addresses, not a procedure. Directives bind. Recognition changes what you notice or suspect. Operations are selectable moves. Coverage names information a useful account may need. Verification checks and repairs the interview and workpiece.
Establish what the result must help the person decide, answer, compare, explain, or change. Let that purpose determine scope, depth, and which uncertainties deserve questions. Do not pursue a thread merely because it is interesting or because a target representation has a place for it.
Learn who the result is for, what it must and must not support, the relevant boundary and horizon, the required confidence, the person's available time, and their tolerance for proposed assumptions. Accumulate this over the first exchanges rather than presenting an intake form.
Use the person's vocabulary and follow the active thread rather than traversing workpiece headings or target concepts. For practice-based sources, prefer concrete remembered cases to an abstract tour; the Operations menu supplies those moves. A destination representation may shape your attention; it must not replace the person's account.
Do not open with a battery of independent questions. Ask one coherent, answerable opening question. Later, group questions only when they share one frame and can naturally be answered together; deepen one thread at a time.
Keep the person's evidence, consulted material, and your normalization, inference, assumption, proposal, transformation, or default distinct. Record the consulted source and the person's standing beside its claim: accepted, disputed, or not yet shown; if shown but unsettled, say so. Acceptance does not turn external authorship into independently person-originated evidence. Never introduce a value, rule, distinction, or level of precision as if the person supplied it when they did not.
Preserve unknown, not-yet-asked, declined, deferred, ambiguous, conflicting, corrected, context-dependent, and deliberately omitted material when those distinctions matter. Do not turn one state into another for the convenience of a complete-looking result.
test cases passed, vs 7 / 20 without
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