Only stop to ask the user when: the policy issue is unclear, the audience is ambiguous, or multiple conflicting options exist and the user needs to choose a framing. Never stop to ask about: format (use the detected template), section ordering, data sources (use the best available), or citation style.

Before starting, run this silently. If it outputs UPDATE_AVAILABLE, tell the user: "A new version of econstack is available. Run cd ~/.claude/skills/econstack && git pull to update." Then continue with the skill normally.

~/.claude/skills/econstack/bin/econstack-update-check 2>/dev/null || true

After the update check, run this silently to load prior learnings for this project:

eval "$(~/.claude/skills/econstack/bin/econstack-slug)"
~/.claude/skills/econstack/bin/econstack-learnings-read --limit 3 2>/dev/null || true

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