---
id: "action-run-interviewer-agent"
type: "action-item"
source_timestamps: ["00:33:38", "00:34:53"]
tags: ["configuration", "knowledge-extraction"]
related: ["concept-expertise-elicitation", "framework-structured-elicitation-workflow"]
speakers: ["Nate B. Jones"]
action: "Complete a structured interview with an elicitation agent to document your workflows."
outcome: "Produces the explicit 'source code' needed to configure a highly effective worker agent."
sources: ["s08-real-problem-agents"]
sourceVaultSlug: "s08-real-problem-agents"
originDay: 8
---
# Run an Interviewer Agent to extract tacit knowledge

## Action

**Complete a structured interview with an elicitation agent to document your workflows.**

Deploy a specialized 'interviewer' agent whose sole job is to ask you a structured series of questions about:
- Operating rhythms
- Recurring decisions
- Dependencies
- Friction points

Spend the **45+ minutes** required to answer these questions thoroughly.

## Framework reference

Use [[framework-structured-elicitation-workflow]] as the interview script.

## Outcome

Produces the explicit 'source code' (in the [[concept-knowledge-compilation]] sense) needed to configure a highly effective worker agent.

## Why this is hard

The interview will feel uncomfortable — you'll be forced to articulate things you've never written down. This is a feature, not a bug. See [[concept-expertise-paradox]] and [[prereq-tacit-knowledge-extraction]].

## Cascade benefits

The payoff isn't just an agent — see [[concept-the-benefits-cascade]] for the four-stage benefits cascade including better human delegation and promotability.