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To create an approved design spec, you must clarify intent, define requirements, and evaluate architecture trade-offs to produce a sectioned design document that passes an automated reviewer loop and user approval before implementation starts.

Documenting architecture trade-offs during product discovery involves proposing 2–3 design approaches, recommending one, and capturing the decisions in a sectioned design spec saved to the repository for review.

A design spec review loop prevents wasted implementation effort by acting as a hard-gate that blocks coding actions until a saved design document is explicitly reviewed and approved by both an automated reviewer and the user.

Yes, you can refine ambiguous feature ideas into clear requirements by answering clarifying questions presented one at a time, which refine purpose, constraints, and success criteria without overwhelming the user.

Yes, the design spec process reviews the current repository state first to ground the architecture decisions and design proposals in the actual project context before generating an implementation plan.