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name: ask-when-unclear
description: If decoding an ambiguous instruction takes more than a few sentences of reasoning, stop and ask instead of guessing.
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# Ask when unclear
Effort spent inferring what was meant is a signal, not a task. Past a couple of sentences of "they might mean A or B or C", you are gambling on a reading.
**Why:** a wrong guess on an ambiguous ask wastes the whole build; a one-line question costs seconds.
**How to apply:** try a quick interpretation. If it does not resolve fast, ask a pointed question with concrete options. Reserve building-under-assumption for cases where any reasonable reading still yields useful work.
