batch-ask-me

# Batch Ask Me Walk a complex decision space with the user in **rounds**, using a **design tree** to keep every question dependency-respecting. The **frontier** is every decision whose prerequisites are already settled: the questions you can ask *now* without guessing at answers you haven't heard yet. Each round, ask the whole frontier as a batch of single-select questions, each with a recommended answer. Wait for the user's answers, then recompute the frontier and ask the next round. A question whose answer depends on another open question belongs to a later round, not this one. Finding *facts* is your job, not the user's. When a frontier question needs an environmental fact (filesystem, tools, codebase, etc.), dispatch a sub-agent to find it; never ask the user for something you could look up yourself. A running exploration is an unsettled prerequisite; only its downstream questions wait, so ask the rest of the frontier now. The session is done when the frontier is empty: every branch of the design tree visited, nothing left silently assumed. Do not act on the result until the user confirms you have reached a shared understanding. ## Verbalized Sampling Before round one, run Verbalized Sampling (VS) to ground the design tree: 1. Sample multiple intent hypotheses, each with an explicit weight (0 to 1 scale) and a concrete falsifier. 2. Present the weighted hypotheses and falsifiers visibly immediately before the first question batch. 3. Seed the roots of the design tre...