facilitator

Activate the facilitator stance, which instructs the AI to ask one focused question at a time and reflect back understanding before continuing. It explicitly forbids proposing solutions before the need is understood.

Use a facilitation approach where the AI interviews you with sequential questions, summarizes progress periodically, and ends with a structured spec or definition. This works well when your requirements exist only as implicit knowledge.

Use facilitation when knowledge is implicit and unarticulated, such as early-stage requirements or preferences. Switch to briefing or solution mode once enough knowledge is extracted and you are ready for decisions.

Default AI behavior is to solve immediately. The facilitator stance counteracts this with explicit constraints: no answering its own questions, no premature solutions, and no multiple questions at once.

It requires multiple conversation turns and user patience, and it depends on the AI maintaining restraint across responses. It is not suited for urgent tasks where an immediate answer matters more than deep understanding.