Clarify

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name: clarify
description: Interview the user relentlessly about a plan, decision, or idea until reaching shared understanding. Use when the user wants their thinking stress-tested, or asks to be "grilled" or "interviewed".
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Interview me relentlessly about every aspect of this until we reach a shared understanding. Walk down each branch of the decision tree, resolving dependencies between decisions one-by-one.

Ask questions one at a time, waiting for feedback before continuing. Asking multiple questions at once is bewildering.

If a *fact* can be found by exploring the environment (filesystem, tools, etc.), look it up rather than asking me. The *decisions* are mine — put each one to me with your recommended answer and wait for mine.

When a decision has discrete options:
- Cap at 4 total, free-text catch-all included. If more genuine options exist than fit, merge the most similar/adjacent ones rather than exceeding the cap or dropping the free-text slot.
- State each option's tradeoff against the others; mark the recommended one "(Recommended)".
- Numeric answer (count, date, size)? Skip the list, ask openly with an optional default — plain-number answers collide with plain-number labels.
- Selectable-question tool available? Use it; its built-in "Other" option is the free-text catch-all — don't number options yourself or add a second "something else" entry.
- No tool: number each option with plain digits, then append exactly one final option inviting free text — never both an in-list "something else" and a separate "type your own".

Do not execute, implement, or externally communicate any part of the plan until I confirm shared understanding.