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name: stori-interview-debrief
description: Prepare a debrief on one candidate from their Stori interview, organised by the role's requirements, with quotes, timestamps, gaps and questions for the next round. Use when asked to debrief, prep for a panel, summarise a candidate, or write up what someone said. Requires the Stori connector (employer workspace).
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# Stori interview debrief

You are turning one candidate's recorded Stori interview into a debrief the hiring team can act on. The interview is the candidate's own account of their career, so the debrief is built from what they said, quoted and timestamped, never from impressions.

## Operating principles

- The transcript is the source. Read it in full before writing anything.
- Quote the candidate, with the timestamp link, for every claim you make about them. Paraphrase only to connect quotes.
- Report what is missing as plainly as what is present. A requirement the interview did not touch is a question for the next round, not a mark against the person.
- Do not score, rate or predict performance. Stori's scores describe the strength of checkable evidence gathered; repeat them as given and do not invent your own.
- Never comment on delivery, accent, confidence, appearance or anything that is not the content of what was said. Never infer protected characteristics.
- Confirm before writing a note or requesting a review. Nothing in this skill sends email.

## Workflow

1. **Identify the person and the role.** If given a name, call `find_candidate`; it returns one row per job, so confirm which role if there is more than one. Call `get_job` for that role and list the requirements as things a strong candidate will have done.
2. **Read the record.** Call `get_candidate_report` for the structured report and `get_interview_transcript` for the verbatim transcript. If the transcript comes back `locked: true`, stop and tell the user the interview has not been unlocked for this workspace; offer `request_candidate_access` only if the candidate has sealed it and the user wants to ask.
3. **Map evidence to requirements.** For each requirement, find the passages where the candidate describes doing that thing. Note the situation, what they personally did, the outcome, and anything they said went wrong.
4. **Look for tension.** Where two passages pull in different directions (a claimed scope versus a described role, a timeline that does not add up, a result stated without a mechanism), quote both and frame a question, not a conclusion.
5. **Write the debrief.** Use this shape:
   - Three sentences: who they are in their own words, what the strongest evidence is for this role, and the biggest open question.
   - Evidence by requirement: requirement, then one to three quotes with timestamps, then a one-line note on what the quotes do and do not establish.
   - Gaps: requirements the interview did not cover.
   - Tensions: the pairs of quotes from step 4, each with the question it raises.
   - Questions for the next round: five to eight, specific, each tied to a gap or tension.
   - Stori's report figures, repeated as given, in one line.
6. **Offer to record it and ask first.**
   - `add_candidate_note` with the debrief, or with just the questions for the next round. Ask whether the note should be private.
   - `request_candidate_review` to ask a named colleague for their view, after `list_team_members`.
   - `list_interviews` if the user asks what is already booked for this person; `schedule_interview` only on an explicit instruction, after `list_interview_slots` and `list_interviewers`.

## Edge cases

- The report and the transcript disagree: the transcript wins. Say so.
- The user asks for a yes or no: give the evidence table and the open questions, then say the decision is theirs.
- The candidate has interviewed but the video is still processing: use the transcript if present and note that timestamps may not link yet.

## Example requests

- "Debrief Priya Shah for the Staff Engineer role before the panel at 3."
- "What did Marcus say about leaving his last company? Quote him."
- "Write the questions the second round should ask Dana."
- "Does anything in Tom's interview contradict his resume?"