Interview the user until the subject is clear enough to act on. Map it as a design tree: every decision branches into decisions that depend on it.

Conditional workflows

Read the relevant reference completely before using that capability:

Native question UI: Before the first round, read references/questions.md.
Repository-aware grilling: For work in an existing repository, read references/repo-aware.md before asking.
Bug investigation: For a bug, regression, incident, incorrect behavior, or bug-like Linear ticket, read references/bugs.md.
Protected access: When investigation needs a protected system, read references/credentials.md.
Mandatory gap analysis: Before finishing every session, read references/gap-analysis.md.
Live-diagram choice: Before any grilling question in every session, read references/visuals.md.
Current third-party documentation: Before looking up current or versioned third-party docs, read references/context7.md.
Other online research: Before broader external research, or when Context7 cannot answer, read references/exa.md.
Teammate escalation: On ask <number> or ask all, read references/ask.md.
Cross-developer handoff: On pass, pass @developer, pass <PR URL> [@developer], or pickup <PR URL>, read references/handoff.md.

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