interview-synthesis
Turn a pile of interview notes into findings that survive scrutiny — the code-then-theme pass, the counting discipline (how many actually said it), the quote selection that illustrates instead of cherry-picks, and the confidence lines a small sample earns. Use when asked synthesize these user/customer/exit interviews, what did we actually learn from the calls, turn 12 transcripts into insights, or are these themes real. Produces the coded themes with counts, the divergences preserved, the illustrative quotes, and the claims sized to the sample.
npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill interview-synthesis --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Interview Synthesis Skill Interview piles get "synthesized" two bad ways: the highlight reel (the quotes that confirmed what the team hoped) and the mush ("users want simplicity" — twelve hours of conversation flattened into a poster). Honest synthesis is mechanical before it's interpretive: code the notes (what did each person actually say, tagged), count the themes (a theme is something *multiple* people said — with the number attached), preserve the divergences (the two dissenters are data, not noise), and size every claim to the sample — twelve interviews support "we repeatedly heard," never "users want." ## What This Skill Produces - **The coded pass** — each interview's statements tagged to emerging codes, traceable back to the speaker - **The theme table** — themes with counts (7/12 raised unprompted; 3 more agreed when asked — the prompted/unprompted split matters) - **The divergence report** — who disagreed with each theme and why; the outliers examined, not deleted - **The claims, sample-sized** — findings phrased at what N interviews can carry, with the quotes that illustrate honestly ## Required Inputs Ask for these if not provided: - **The notes/transcripts** — the a
- What This Skill Produces
- Required Inputs
- Framework: The Synthesis Rules
- Output Format
- Theme Table
- The Themes (each)
- Against the Hypotheses
- Claims & Confidence
- Quality Checks
- Anti-Patterns
What does the interview-synthesis skill do?
Turn a pile of interview notes into findings that survive scrutiny — the code-then-theme pass, the counting discipline (how many actually said it), the quote selection that illustrates instead of cherry-picks, and the confidence lines a small sample earns. Use when asked synthesize these user/customer/exit interviews, what did we actually learn from the calls, turn 12 transcripts into insights, or are these themes real. Produces the coded themes with counts, the divergences preserved, the illustrative quotes, and the claims sized to the sample.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill interview-synthesis --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills, a repository with 1,255 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.