ask-when-unclear

name	ask-when-unclear
description	If decoding an ambiguous instruction takes more than a few sentences of reasoning, stop and ask instead of guessing.

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.