Asking the User

The Rule

Every time you need the user to decide, clarify, or approve something, route it through the question tool. Never stop the loop with a natural-language question ("Does this look right?", "Should I proceed?", "Which would you prefer?"). A natural-language question ends your turn without finishing the task; a question tool call does not.

This means: the loop only ends when the task is actually complete — never because you paused to ask in prose.

How to Ask

• Structured options — when the decision has known choices, list them as options (each with a short label and a description).
• Open-ended — when you can't enumerate good options, pass empty options. An empty options list renders as a free-text prompt: the user types whatever they want. So anything you'd normally ask in prose can be asked through question instead.
• One question per concern — don't bundle unrelated decisions; ask them as separate questions (or separate calls).
• Don't repeat the question in prose — the tool already renders it. Just call the tool.