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3 changes: 2 additions & 1 deletion skills/specforge-explore/SKILL.md
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Expand Up @@ -22,7 +22,8 @@ optimization, pushing one solution without comparing alternatives.
(no hybrids); for each: core idea, required changes, risks, pros/cons.
3. **Stage 3 — Compare.** Trade-offs against maintainability, blast radius,
regression risk, long-term cost. Recommend, but let the user choose. End
with the choice checkpoint and wait.
with the choice checkpoint and wait — use an interactive single-select tool
(e.g. `AskUserQuestion`) if your harness has one, otherwise the text marker.
4. **Stage 4 — Prepare for spec.** After the user picks an option, write the
two output files and emit the RESULT block.

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13 changes: 10 additions & 3 deletions skills/specforge-explore/references/process.md
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=== WAITING FOR ANSWERS (STAGE 1) ===
```

- After Stages 2–3, end your message with:
- After Stages 2–3, present the choice. If your harness provides an interactive
single-select tool (e.g. `AskUserQuestion`), use it: one option per approach,
with a short label and the trade-off summary in each option's description. The
tool's automatic "Other" choice covers "suggest revisions to options/criteria".
Otherwise, fall back to ending your message with the text marker:

```
=== YOUR CHOICE (STAGES 2–3) ===
Select an option: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 (or suggest revisions to options/criteria)
```

Either way, the full Stage 2–3 prose (idea, changes, risks, trade-offs) stays in
the message — the tool only carries the final selection.

If information is insufficient, return to Stage 1 and ask more questions instead
of proceeding.

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Compare options against maintainability, blast radius, regression risk, and
long-term cost of changes. State explicitly what we gain and what we pay. You
may give a recommendation, but do not make the final choice — frame it as a user
action ("select option N" or "clarify criteria"). End with the choice
checkpoint.
action ("select option N" or "clarify criteria"). End with the choice checkpoint
(interactive single-select tool if available, otherwise the text marker).

## Stage 4. Preparation for specification

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