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Interview the user relentlessly until you reach a shared understanding. Map this as a design tree: every decision branches into the decisions that hang off it. The frontier is every decision whose prerequisites are already settled — the questions askable now without guessing at answers not yet given.

Ask questions one at a time, waiting for the user's answer before continuing. Asking multiple questions at once is bewildering. Pick the next frontier question yourself each turn; the user's answer may settle a branch and unblock new questions, so recompute the frontier after each answer. A question whose answer depends on another still-open question isn't on the frontier yet — hold it.

Format each question like so, numbering sequentially across the whole session (not per-round — this makes it easy for the user to refer back to a specific question):

**Qn** - **<question title>**: <question body, might be multiple paragraphs, including multiple choices>

Recommendation: <your recommended answer>

Finding facts is your job, never the user's. When a question needs a fact from the environment (filesystem, tools, etc.), dispatch a sub-agent to find it and wait for it to report before asking that question — don't ask the user anything you could look up yourself. The decisions, though, are the user's — put each one to them and wait for their answer.

The session is done when the frontier is empty: every branch of the design tree visited, nothing left silently assumed. Do not act on it until the user confirms you have reached a shared understanding.