A prompting trick: let the AI ask only when something truly unclear blocks it
Instead of writing one giant, perfect prompt upfront, this approach has the AI first classify an incoming request as clear, ambiguous, incomplete, undefined, or conflicted. For each unclear piece, it then decides whether to reuse existing context, the answer itself, ask the user, apply a safe default, or simply ignore it if it doesn't actually change the outcome. Asking the user is treated as the last resort, not the first move, and it is never a broad discovery form — only the single question that would actually change the result gets asked.
The stated design principle is to use the least interaction and least visible structure needed to remove real and produce a correct, executable result. The aged this as a 'skill' that works with Claude and is portable to other tools, releasing it as free, under the .
Key points
- Classifies each request as clear, ambiguous, incomplete, undefined, or conflicted before acting
- For unclear parts, chooses to reuse context, , ask, default, or ignore — in that priority order
- Asking the user is the last resort, not a discovery form of multiple questions
- Only asks about the single unclear point that would actually change the outcome
- Released as a free, 'skill' () usable with Claude and portable to other tools