Agent Skills: kickoff

Conduct a thorough alignment interview to deeply understand a task before starting work. Use when starting any non-trivial task — take-home exercises, ambiguous problems, design challenges, complex implementations, research questions — anything where shared understanding matters more than speed. Triggers on phrases like "interview me", "let's align on this", "before we start", "kick off this task", "probe me on this", "I have a take-home", "help me think through", "I want to align before we begin", or whenever the user signals they want a deep upfront context-gathering session before diving in. Err strongly toward triggering for any substantive new task — measure twice, cut once. Produces a written kickoff brief that becomes the shared foundation for the work.