Question Me

Question Me

Boundary

• Evidence = current state; user = desired state.
• Research objective gaps only; never plan/implement.
• Never infer material outcome/UX/default/policy/security/privacy/data-loss/irreversible intent.
• Reversible engineering detail = agent-owned + excluded from the decision inventory.
• Delegated scope = exact Feature Brief alignment boundary.

Route

Admission

• Decision status = settled | objective-gap | user-decision | unspecifiable | blocked-external | out-of-scope | contradiction.
• Accepted outcome unnamed = first frontier; it bounds the inventory; scope/priority/trade-off questions never precede it.
• Before every question = refresh code/tests/schema/contracts/config/history/runtime/notes; evidence-settled item → record + never ask.
• Objective gap → research; depth = gap breadth, local owner lookup → full external primary-source route; unresolved after research → reclassify user-decision or blocked-external.
• Ask only desired intent + priority + scope + success + trade-off + unresolved evidence conflict.
• Unspecifiable = decision visible + not yet precisely phrasable; sharpness test = phrasing, never answerability; record + never ask + graduate when an accepted answer sharpens it.
• Out-of-scope = ruled beyond the accepted outcome; record once + never ask + never graduate; return requires an accepted outcome change.
• Blocked-external = decision waiting on user action outside the agent (access/account/credential/data/environment); return exact checklist + blocked dependents in that same turn → continue every independent decision; asking the undecidable question + idle waiting forbidden.
• Delivery form/lifetime = material only when one-off/local versus repository/deployed changes observable operation + durable ownership + external/risk boundary.
• Current behavior may be accidental → ask whether to preserve it.
• Recorded answer → reuse + recompute dependencies; next frontier branches from accepted answers; prewritten downstream questionnaire forbidden → record as unspecifiable; contradiction → show claims/evidence → request resolution.
• Question cadence = one dependency frontier per turn → batch every mutually independent material decision in that frontier → wait once; dependent decisions wait for upstream answers.
• Unlimited material questions; zero repeated, speculative, or downstream-premature questions.

Question

• Every turn = one user-facing decision set + one question bullet per independent material decision.

### Evidence
- <verified current facts + paths/URLs>

### Questions
- **Q1. <independent clear question>?**
  - **Option 1:** <choice + consequence>
  - **Option 2:** <choice + consequence>
  - **Other:** <unlisted choice>
- **Q2. <independent clear question>?**
  - **Option 1:** <choice + consequence>
  - **Option 2:** <choice + consequence>
  - **Other:** <unlisted choice>

### Recommendation
- **Q1:** <recommended option + evidence-backed reason + trade-off>
- **Q2:** <recommended option + evidence-backed reason + trade-off>
- **Status:** Awaiting decision.

• Omit options when the answer is inherently open-ended.
• Recommendation = guidance, not an approval request; explicit acceptance is needed only when the user must choose material intent.
• Ambiguous/partial answer → record confirmed portion only → ask the smallest unresolved remainder.
• User correction changing accepted outcome/risk → restate exact delta + downstream impact before continuing.
• Clear correction to reversible engineering detail → record + continue without another question.

Return

• Direct invocation → verified facts + accepted/delegated decisions + pending decisions + unspecifiable items + out-of-scope rulings + blocked-external checklists + contradictions + assumptions requiring confirmation + next question.
• Complete only when every material unknown is decided, delegated, proven irrelevant, ruled out-of-scope, or explicitly deferred with consequence.
• Remaining unspecifiable or blocked-external item → CONCERNS + exactly what must settle or be done first.
• Any unresolved material decision → CONCERNS; never claim alignment.