nwiizo Design Exploration
Produce a recommendation the user can assess from its intended outcome, constraints, meaningful tradeoffs, and verification criteria.
Inspect the relevant project and settled decisions before asking questions. Recommend an approach once the evidence supports it; show alternatives only when a real tradeoff could change the user's choice. Discuss components, data flow, failures, or migration only to the depth the design needs.
Separate missing user decisions from facts that can be checked during implementation. A design-only request ends with the design. If implementation is also requested, continue when its important choices are resolved.
Create a design file only when requested or required by the repository. Do not add a review round, commit, or approval gate simply to finish the design.
Requested Design Interview
When the user asks to challenge an existing plan, follow its dependent decisions and ask one material question at a time. Investigate factual answers yourself; ask the user about priorities and tradeoffs. Finish with the settled decisions, reasons, and remaining questions once the acceptance criteria are clear.
Visual Companion
Use the optional browser companion only when a visual choice would benefit from it and the user requests or has accepted it; do not ask again for existing authorization. Then read visual-companion.md. A small inline diagram does not require starting the companion.