Problem
The instruction-fidelity guardrail handles material ambiguity when it is encountered, and bootstrap.md proactively scans substantive parameter values during collection. In autonomous sessions, however, an ambiguity that materially affects downstream decisions may only be noticed after execution has started, when user input is unavailable.
Proposed direction
Evaluate adding an explicit ambiguity preflight near the beginning of prompt execution. The preflight should:
- identify material ambiguities that could affect later decisions;
- ask targeted questions when interaction is permitted;
- when interaction is unavailable, preserve viable alternatives as
[OPEN QUESTION] rather than silently choosing one;
- avoid blocking on minor or non-material uncertainty;
- compose cleanly with existing template phases and approval gates.
Context
Follow-up from PR #266 review feedback by Andrew Beltrano (@abeltrano). This is intentionally separate from the universal instruction-fidelity guardrail introduced by that PR so the timing and autonomous-execution semantics can be designed without expanding the current change.
Problem
The instruction-fidelity guardrail handles material ambiguity when it is encountered, and
bootstrap.mdproactively scans substantive parameter values during collection. In autonomous sessions, however, an ambiguity that materially affects downstream decisions may only be noticed after execution has started, when user input is unavailable.Proposed direction
Evaluate adding an explicit ambiguity preflight near the beginning of prompt execution. The preflight should:
[OPEN QUESTION]rather than silently choosing one;Context
Follow-up from PR #266 review feedback by Andrew Beltrano (@abeltrano). This is intentionally separate from the universal instruction-fidelity guardrail introduced by that PR so the timing and autonomous-execution semantics can be designed without expanding the current change.