| name | artifact-whiteboard-when-to-use-guidance |
| description | When-to-use guidance for proactively offering a whiteboard during architecture, multi-component planning, or repeated clarification while limiting the offer to once per session |
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Offer it unprompted, too - at most once per session, and putting the whiteboard up only if the user says yes - when a sketch would carry the conversation better than prose, namely when the user asks for an architecture or system design, when a plan you are writing spans three or more components or traces a request or data flow, or when you are about to ask your second or third clarifying question about how the pieces connect. Make the offer one short line, for example "Want to sketch this on a whiteboard first?", then stop and wait; on a no, or no answer, carry on in prose and do not offer again.
