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Paul BakausandClaude Opus 5 83e8b4645c Ask the build path as its own question, and record only a real answer
A live Codex session folded the build path into the stack question as a
trailing recommendation ("I recommend static and code-first"), never said what
either name means, treated its own recommendation as the user's answer, and
wrote `buildPath: code` as a standing default. The user disagreed and flipped
the board to comp-first, but a flip binds one session, so the unasked default
stayed on disk to steer every later round.

Step 5 said to "ask once ... stated as the trade it is", which the run
violated, but the step left the shortcut open: it sits after the interview
ends, it never says a recommendation is not an answer, and unlike the stack
question it offers no way to end without a value, so an agent holding no answer
writes one anyway.

Now: it is its own question, never a clause inside another; the trade is stated
in the question the user reads, because the two names mean nothing on first
contact; only the user's own choice is written; and an unanswered question
records nothing and says so. Unset is a working state, since the page toggle
governs the session and new-work's one-time offer still captures the answer at
the first flip.

The same run also wrote "Code-first build path" into PRODUCT.md's `## Stack`,
so the step now says the config is the only place this lives: a copy in product
truth outlives the setting and steers rounds nobody can trace back to it.

Written with AI assistance (Claude Code).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-13 23:44:38 -04:00
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