expert-interviewer

Provide a topic-brief.md and perspectives.json, then the skill runs a question thread per active perspective: seed questions, source retrieval, source-backed answers, and follow-up questions. Results are written to interview-notes.md and source-index.json.

It requires two upstream artifacts: topic-brief.md describing the subject and perspectives.json listing the active perspectives. Both must exist in the project workspace before the interview threads begin.

Every retrieved source is registered in source-index.json with title, URL, publisher, date, source type, and reliability notes. Each factual answer in interview-notes.md references these source IDs, and search snippets are never accepted as final evidence.

The skill writes a handoff file at handoffs/expert-interviewer-to-outline-architect.md listing artifact paths, changes, open questions, and source-quality concerns, then sends the full package to the outline_architect agent.

Answer quality depends entirely on retrievable sources, so niche topics may leave unresolved questions, which are tracked explicitly. The skill also guards against one perspective dominating the evidence package but cannot create evidence where none exists.