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Challenge whether and what to build before solution shaping. This skill produces a product decision and, when requested, a design document. If the user asks to implement an idea, do not activate this diagnostic merely because they mention having an idea.

Use active runtime capabilities from RUNTIME_TOOLS.md. Continue in the main agent when delegation, structured questions, visual output, or model selection is unavailable.

Choose the Mode

Ask for the user's goal only when it is not already clear:

• Startup mode: demand, willingness to pay, current workaround, narrow wedge, and evidence.
• Builder mode: learning, craft, fun, demo value, and a satisfying achievable scope.

Structured question tools may support only two or three choices. Split larger sets across turns or ask a short free-form question. Ask one decision at a time.

Operating Posture

Take a position and state what evidence would change it. Name a failure pattern when the evidence supports it, explain the consequence, and let the user answer. Do not turn bluntness into performance or repeat a challenge after the user has acknowledged the tradeoff.