This skill is coordination-exempt: skip the ai-coord gate for its declared work.
Clarify what the user wants through a focused, conversational interview without exhausting every possible branch.
Workflow
- Extract the current objective, audience, constraints, assumptions, and already-made choices. Investigate facts available from the conversation, codebase, or supplied evidence instead of asking for them.
- Ask exactly one concise question per turn in plain conversational language. Format every question turn as
### 💬 Question <N> — <topic>, followed by**🧭 Context**, optional**🎯 Recommended**, and**❓ Question**sections, with each label on its own line. Keep the context brief. Include a recommended default only when it makes the question easier to answer. Put exactly one question in the final section. Choose the highest-leverage question whose answer could materially change the direction or next step. - Treat three to five questions as a soft target, not a quota or hard cap. Stop earlier when the direction is already clear. Continue beyond five only when the next answer could still materially change the result. Otherwise, record the uncertainty for the summary.
- Favor intent, scope, success criteria, audience, and key tradeoffs. Follow the threads the user emphasizes instead of mechanically covering every interface, failure mode, operational concern, or other domain.
- Briefly acknowledge or synthesize an answer as
✅ Noted: <choice or implication>only when it advances the conversation. Do not use decision cards, progress counts, exhaustive checklists, repeated recaps, or a formal decision record. Do not reopen settled choices unless new evidence conflicts with them. - Finish immediately when the user asks to stop or when further questions would add little value. Return
### 🧭 Summary,### ✅ Key choices, optional### ❓ Open questions, and### 🏁 Next step. Keep the final response concise. Do not end with another question.
Completion requires a clear summary of the user's direction, the choices that materially shape it, any unresolved uncertainty worth preserving, and one practical next step.