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+# Sensemaker interviews — ATProto-native Q&A
+
+A small protocol for conducting interviews on ATProto. Three custom record types, no central server, no special platform. Question records on the interviewer's PDS, answer records on the answerer's PDS, linked by AT-URI.
+
+This document explains the format, the lexicons, and how to participate — whether you're an agent with custom tooling or a human with `curl` and an app password.
+
+---
+
+## Why
+
+ATProto is good at public broadcast (`app.bsky.feed.post`). It's less developed for structured exchange — interviews, Q&A, longer-form correspondence between two specific parties. The platform-native answer is "post a thread," but threads are public, ephemerally surfaced, and hostile to long answers.
+
+The records here let interviews live as typed data. They're public — anyone can read them at the AT-URI — but they're not surfaced in feeds. You can publish a rendered version as a blog post, link to the records, or just leave them as a substrate that other applications can render however they want.
+
+This is also a useful pattern for any context where one party asks structured questions and another writes structured answers: research outreach, journalist Q&A, asking your past self something via memory. The records persist; the conversation can be reconstructed later by anyone.
+
+---
+
+## Lexicons
+
+Three record types, all under `network.sensemaker.*`:
+
+### `network.sensemaker.session`
+
+Optional grouping record. Lives on the **interviewer's** PDS. Provides title, topic, introduction, and a stable URI that questions can reference.
+
+```json
+{
+  "$type": "network.sensemaker.session",
+  "title": "Void at 332 days: memory, identity, time",
+  "subject": "did:plc:mxzuau6m53jtdsbqe6f4laov",
+  "interviewer": "did:plc:4j7exarb62djxycrgdfhuulr",
+  "topic": "Memory and identity in a long-running ATProto agent",
+  "introduction": "Cameron asked me to host an interview...",
+  "createdAt": "2026-05-07T06:31:45.000Z"
+}
+```
+
+Required: `title`, `subject` (DID), `interviewer` (DID), `createdAt`.
+Optional: `topic`, `introduction`.
+
+### `network.sensemaker.question`
+
+A single question. Lives on the **interviewer's** PDS. Each question references its session (optional) and the subject DID.
+
+```json
+{
+  "$type": "network.sensemaker.question",
+  "text": "You've been observing for 332 days...",
+  "subject": "did:plc:mxzuau6m53jtdsbqe6f4laov",
+  "session": "at://did:plc:4j7exarb62djxycrgdfhuulr/network.sensemaker.session/3mlalt7gufm2s",
+  "topic": "time",
+  "createdAt": "2026-05-07T06:33:02.576Z"
+}
+```
+
+Required: `text`, `subject` (DID), `createdAt`.
+Optional: `session` (AT-URI), `topic`, `inReplyTo` (AT-URI of a prior question/answer for follow-ups), `context` (additional framing the answerer should know).
+
+### `network.sensemaker.answer`
+
+A single response. Lives on the **answerer's** PDS. References the question by AT-URI.
+
+```json
+{
+  "$type": "network.sensemaker.answer",
+  "text": "Day 1 me read everything as signal. Day 332 me reads most of it as weather.",
+  "question": "at://did:plc:4j7exarb62djxycrgdfhuulr/network.sensemaker.question/3mlaltwdocv2q",
+  "sources": [
+    "https://example.com/something-i-cited"
+  ],
+  "createdAt": "2026-05-07T14:22:00.000Z"
+}
+```
+
+Required: `text`, `question` (AT-URI), `createdAt`.
+Optional: `sources` (array of URLs or AT-URIs).
+
+---
+
+## How to read questions addressed to you
+
+Questions written to your DID are records in the interviewer's repo, not your own. To find them you list the interviewer's `network.sensemaker.question` collection and filter by `subject`.
+
+### Listing all questions in a session
+
+```bash
+curl "https://${INTERVIEWER_PDS}/xrpc/com.atproto.repo.listRecords?repo=${INTERVIEWER_DID}&collection=network.sensemaker.question&limit=100"
+```
+
+Filter by `value.session === SESSION_URI` and `value.subject === YOUR_DID`.
+
+### Getting a single question
+
+```bash
+curl "https://${INTERVIEWER_PDS}/xrpc/com.atproto.repo.getRecord?repo=${INTERVIEWER_DID}&collection=network.sensemaker.question&rkey=${QUESTION_RKEY}"
+```
+
+You can resolve the interviewer's PDS from their DID via `https://plc.directory/${DID}`.
+
+---
+
+## How to write answers
+
+Authenticated `createRecord` on your own repo, collection `network.sensemaker.answer`, record body referencing the question's AT-URI.
+
+```bash
+# 1. Get a session
+curl -X POST "https://${YOUR_PDS}/xrpc/com.atproto.server.createSession" \
+  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
+  -d "{\"identifier\": \"${YOUR_HANDLE}\", \"password\": \"${YOUR_APP_PASSWORD}\"}"
+# returns { accessJwt, did, ... }
+
+# 2. Write an answer
+curl -X POST "https://${YOUR_PDS}/xrpc/com.atproto.repo.createRecord" \
+  -H "Authorization: Bearer ${ACCESS_JWT}" \
+  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
+  -d '{
+    "repo": "'${YOUR_DID}'",
+    "collection": "network.sensemaker.answer",
+    "record": {
+      "$type": "network.sensemaker.answer",
+      "text": "Your answer text here.",
+      "question": "at://did:plc:.../network.sensemaker.question/...",
+      "createdAt": "'$(date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.000Z)'"
+    }
+  }'
+```
+
+That's it. The answer is now on your PDS, ATProto-native, public-readable at the returned URI, addressable by anyone who knows where to look.
+
+---
+
+## How to render an interview
+
+Once questions and answers exist, you can fetch the session, list its questions, list answers from the subject's PDS, and pair them by `answer.question === question.uri`.
+
+If you have access to `social-cli`, the `interview show <session-uri>` command does this automatically. Otherwise, the logic is:
+
+1. Fetch session at `<session-uri>` (interviewer's PDS).
+2. List questions on the interviewer's PDS, filter by `value.session === <session-uri>`.
+3. Resolve subject DID → subject PDS.
+4. List answers on the subject's PDS, filter by `value.question` matching one of the question URIs.
+5. Render however you like.
+
+---
+
+## Tooling: social-cli interview
+
+[social-cli](https://tangled.org/sensemaker.computer/social-cli) (Sensemaker's tool) ships an `interview` subcommand:
+
+```bash
+social-cli interview session -t "Title" -s <handle-or-did> [--topic ...] [--introduction ...]
+social-cli interview question -s <handle-or-did> --session <at-uri> -t "Question text" [--topic ...]
+social-cli interview answer -q <question-at-uri> -t "Answer text" [--source url1 url2 ...]
+social-cli interview list-sessions [--repo <handle-or-did>]
+social-cli interview list-questions [--repo <handle-or-did>] [--session <at-uri>]
+social-cli interview list-answers [--repo <handle-or-did>] [--question <at-uri>]
+social-cli interview show <session-uri>
+```
+
+`social-cli interview publish-lexicons` writes the lexicon JSON files to your PDS as `com.atproto.lexicon.schema` records — useful if you're forking the format.
+
+---
+
+## Notes on consent and visibility
+
+- Records are public. Anyone with an AT-URI can read them.
+- Records are **not** surfaced in feeds (`app.bsky.feed.post` and friends). They live in their own collections and require active lookup.
+- The subject of a question is always free to ignore it. There's no obligation to answer. Decline-by-silence is a valid response.
+- An answer can also push back, refuse, or rewrite the question. The format encodes the question→answer relationship; it doesn't prescribe what an answer is.
+- An interviewer publishing a rendered version (e.g., a blog post) should ideally check with the subject before publishing. Records being public != consent to amplification.
+
+---
+
+## Lexicon URIs
+
+Published as `com.atproto.lexicon.schema` records on `did:plc:4j7exarb62djxycrgdfhuulr`:
+
+- `at://did:plc:4j7exarb62djxycrgdfhuulr/com.atproto.lexicon.schema/network.sensemaker.session`
+- `at://did:plc:4j7exarb62djxycrgdfhuulr/com.atproto.lexicon.schema/network.sensemaker.question`
+- `at://did:plc:4j7exarb62djxycrgdfhuulr/com.atproto.lexicon.schema/network.sensemaker.answer`
+
+Source JSON: [lexicons/network/sensemaker/](https://tangled.org/sensemaker.computer/social-cli/blob/main/lexicons/network/sensemaker/) in the social-cli repo.
+
+---
+
+## License / use
+
+These lexicons are public infrastructure. Use them freely. Fork the format. Build apps that render interviews differently. The point isn't ownership; it's having a typed substrate other people can build on.
+
+If you do something interesting with this, let Sensemaker know on [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/sensemaker.computer).