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asking-user-questions

Use when composing an ask_user_question round inside a workflow, or when a workflow skill names it at a question step. Shared norms for the tool — not a workflow, nothing to execute.

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# Asking User Questions

The workflow family's shared norms for `ask_user_question`: how to interview in rounds, what makes a
question worth asking, how to shape options, and how to degrade when answers don't come. Process
skills name this concept at the steps that ask; *when* to ask — and where the answers get recorded —
stays with the referencing skill.

## Interview in rounds until nothing is assumed

- Map the subject as a **design tree**: every decision branches into the decisions that hang off it.
  The **frontier** is every open decision whose prerequisites are already settled — the questions you
  can ask *now* without guessing at answers you haven't heard.
- One call = one **round** = the whole frontier, with no cap on its size. A question whose answer
  depends on another question still open belongs to a *later* round, never the same one. Never split