skills/trx-interview-prep-coach/references/methodology-status.md

# Canonical methodology

Use **TRX Search Interview Preparation Guide** as the canonical TRX Search interview-preparation methodology. The bundled guide displays the title **The Interview Preparation Guide**. No explicit edition or publication date is shown, so do not infer one.

Bundled reference: `trx-search-interview-preparation-guide.pdf`.

Read `canonical-guide.md` for the complete page-labeled text. Consult `trx-search-interview-preparation-guide.pdf` if layout or extracted text is ambiguous. The PDF is the authoritative original; the text is an access copy, not a separate methodology.

Apply the guide through the interactive coaching workflow. Treat `coaching-tools.md` and `situational-coaching.md` as operational adaptations, not verbatim guide content. Use the guide to resolve methodological ambiguity while preserving truthfulness, ownership, and non-fabrication safeguards. Flag substantive future conflicts instead of silently changing methodology.