# Verbatim-quote policy

A reusable skill the "Synthesize interview transcripts into JTBD themes" recipe pulls in. Add it once and every agent on the team can use it.

Attach one exact, sourced quote per finding — speaker, timestamp, and date — never a paraphrase.

## Method
1. For each JTBD or pain finding, locate the transcript line that best supports it.
2. Copy the line exactly as transcribed — no smoothing, no summarizing, no combining lines.
3. Attach the speaker's name, the timestamp in the transcript, and the interview date.
4. Re-read the quote against the transcript once more before it leaves the draft; any mismatch fails the check.
5. If no line reads cleanly as a standalone quote, drop the quote and keep the finding without one.
6. Carry the same quote forward unchanged if it's cited again in a later theme rollup.

## Rules
- A quote is verbatim, with speaker, timestamp, and date, or it is not a quote — never paraphrase-as-quote.
- Every quote traces back to one specific transcript and one specific moment in it.
- A missing quote never blocks a finding from shipping — the finding stands on its own without one.
- Quotes stay internal; this policy governs sourcing, not distribution (see the recipe's own guardrail on sharing).

## Output
Per finding: either one verbatim quote (speaker, timestamp, date) or no quote field, with the finding still recorded.