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To clarify engineering requirements, use a guided design discussion that investigates the codebase and specs, then applies one-question-at-a-time grilling to surface assumptions, edge cases, and trade-offs. This turns initial ambiguity into shared understanding and a routed plan.

Evaluating architecture trade-offs for a new feature is best done through relentless decision-tree grilling, which surfaces critical-path choices one decision at a time. This method ensures edge cases and assumptions are explicitly addressed before routing to execution.

You start an engineering design discussion for a refactoring task by providing the topic, then answering single questions posed after deep investigation. This guides you through constraints and concludes with a specific next step for planning or debugging.

Yes, you can use a guided workflow to route engineering tasks to planning or debugging. The discussion concludes with an explicit next step based on your answers, directing you to formal design docs, planning, debugging, or execution workflows.

You need a structured decision tree for software engineering design when starting new features, bug fixes, refactors, or exploratory tasks where trade-offs exist. It clarifies requirements and drives structured decision-making before downstream execution.