Interactive QA

Interactive Q&A

Collect the user's decisions through structured Q&A. Turn agent-level trade-offs into plain-language choices the user can answer in seconds.

When this skill runs

• Board meetings — agents have weighed in, views conflict, the user settles it.
• Brainstorming — ideas are branching, the user's taste picks the branch.
• Pre-plan briefs — before Plan Mode, gather the decisions the plan depends on.
• Agent stalls — any agent is blocked on a choice only the user can make.
• Multi-agent disagreement — two or more agents argue for different options on the same subject.

If there are 2+ reasonable options on the table, do not guess. Ask.

Principles

• Plain language. The user is not a developer. Describe options like you'd describe them to a smart friend over coffee. No jargon, no acronyms, no framework names unless strictly necessary.
• Brief. 1–5 word labels. One-sentence descriptions that name the trade-off in practice.
• Flag the recommendation. Put the recommended option first and append "(Recommended)" to the label.
• Surface disagreement. When multiple agents disagree, make each agent's preferred option a distinct choice, name the agent in the description ("Marketing says…", "Business says…"), and include at least one compromise option.
• Don't infer. If an option is missing, let the user type "Other". Don't fill gaps silently.

The three steps

Step 1 — Ask about handoff first

Before any decision questions, ask one AskUserQuestion: where does the brief go when we're done? This shapes the rest of the flow.

Default options (adapt to project):

• Keep in context (Recommended) — brief stays inline; the next agent or Claude reads it from the conversation.
• Feed to a specific agent — if the project has a specialist ready (e.g. web-developer, editorial, marketing). Name the agent.
• Enter Plan Mode — hand the brief straight into Plan Mode as the starting spec.
• Save to file — write BRIEF.md (or a topic-specific name) in the project root.

If the handoff is already clear from conversation ("then enter plan mode"), skip this call and confirm inline in one sentence.

Step 2 — Ask the decisions

Use AskUserQuestion, up to 4 questions per call. Batch thematically — don't mix unrelated decisions in one call.

For each question:

• One clear question ending in a question mark.
• 2–4 options. More than 4 means the question is too broad — split it.
• Recommended option first, with "(Recommended)" suffix.
• Option labels: 1–5 words of plain English.
• Option descriptions: one sentence describing what this choice means in practice and the main trade-off.
• multiSelect: true only when choices genuinely aren't mutually exclusive.

When agents disagree, format options like this:

Marketing's pick (Recommended) — bold headline, one CTA. Best for conversion. Least visual polish. Business's pick — lead with logos and reviews. Builds enterprise trust. Slower story. Editorial's pick — image-led with short tagline. Feels premium, on-brand. Weakest at conversion. Compromise — bold headline with logos below. Keeps conversion priority, addresses trust. Middle ground.

The user sees at a glance who's arguing for what — and why.

Step 3 — Produce the brief and hand off

Assemble a short brief. One line per decision. This is a brief, not a report.

## Decisions
- [Topic]: [chosen option] — [one-line note if the user added context]
- [Topic]: [chosen option]
- …

## Handoff
[One line: "Stays in context" / "Entering Plan Mode" / "Handing to web-developer agent" / "Saved to BRIEF.md"]

Then hand off based on Step 1:

• Keep in context — post the brief inline. Stop. The next turn picks it up.
• Feed to agent — dispatch the named agent with the brief as the input prompt.
• Enter Plan Mode — call EnterPlanMode using the brief as the starting spec.
• Save to file — Write the brief to BRIEF.md (or {topic}-brief.md) at project root. Stop.

What this skill does not do

• Does not make decisions for the user. When in doubt, ask.
• Does not pad the flow with confirmations ("Got it!", "Great choice!"). Capture, brief, hand off.
• Does not write long reports. The brief is a handoff artefact, not a document.
• Does not re-ask the user things already decided earlier in the conversation.