# Synthesize engagement survey comments into anonymous themes

Synthesize open-text engagement comments into themes, with anonymity guardrails on quotes and small groups.

**Connects:** googlesheets, slack, drive

## How to install

1. Fetch https://eluu.ai/cookbook/survey-open-text-synthesis/skill.md and save it into your skills folder as `survey-open-text-synthesis`.
2. Ask the user the first-run questions the skill lists, and store the answers in memory.
3. Offer to schedule the recurring jobs below; create only the ones the user approves.
4. Run the skill once end to end and review the output with the user.

## What this does

- Clusters open-text survey responses into named themes with respondent counts
- Suppresses any theme under the minimum respondent count, no exceptions
- Represents every theme as a paraphrase or count only, never verbatim
- Diffs themes against last cycle and posts the trend to

## Recurring jobs

- **Survey close watch** (Weekly poll of {{survey_source}} for a newly closed survey) — https://eluu.ai/cookbook/survey-open-text-synthesis/jobs-setup/survey-close-watch.md

## Skills inside

The full method, including each of these, is in skill.md. Individually fetchable:

- **Open-text theme clustering**, Group free-text survey answers into named themes with counts — https://eluu.ai/cookbook/survey-open-text-synthesis/skills/open-text-theme-clustering.md
- **Anonymity floor**, Suppress any theme below the minimum respondent count — https://eluu.ai/cookbook/survey-open-text-synthesis/skills/anonymity-floor.md
- **Quote paraphrasing**, Paraphrase or count-only represent every theme, never verbatim — https://eluu.ai/cookbook/survey-open-text-synthesis/skills/quote-paraphrasing.md

## Files

- skill.md — https://eluu.ai/cookbook/survey-open-text-synthesis/skill.md
- jobs-setup/survey-close-watch.md — https://eluu.ai/cookbook/survey-open-text-synthesis/jobs-setup/survey-close-watch.md
- skills/open-text-theme-clustering.md — https://eluu.ai/cookbook/survey-open-text-synthesis/skills/open-text-theme-clustering.md
- skills/anonymity-floor.md — https://eluu.ai/cookbook/survey-open-text-synthesis/skills/anonymity-floor.md
- skills/quote-paraphrasing.md — https://eluu.ai/cookbook/survey-open-text-synthesis/skills/quote-paraphrasing.md
- workflow.json — https://eluu.ai/cookbook/survey-open-text-synthesis/workflow.json