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Interview Prompts

GPTClaudeGemini··▲ 787 copies·updated 2026-07-14

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# Interview Prompts

Use these prompts only after the task and scene are narrowly defined.

## Think-Aloud

- Walk through the task in real time. What are you noticing first?
- What signal would make you change direction here?
- What are you ignoring on purpose?
- What would a beginner probably miss at this exact moment?

## Critical Incident

- Tell me about a case where this went unusually well. What did you catch early?
- Tell me about a failure or near miss. What sign was present before the mistake?
- At what point would you stop and escalate instead of continuing?

## Extraction Grid

- Trigger signal:
- Decision cue:
- Embodied action:
- Failure signature:
- Escalation boundary:

when to use it

Community prompt sourced from the open-source GitHub repo 11Yuxuanyang/polanyi-stack (MIT). A "Interview Prompts" style prompt — adapt the placeholders and specifics to your task. Imported as-is and not independently retested here, so check the output before relying on it.