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Clarifying requirements before implementation involves conducting structured interviews to surface ambiguities and gather explicit constraints. This process creates a validated understanding of the task, ensuring the team builds the right thing and preventing wasted effort on conflicting paths.

Structured ambiguity discovery systematically analyzes a task and codebase to create an Ambiguity Inventory. It prioritizes blocking questions to identify unstated constraints and user preferences before development begins, ensuring explicit requirements are gathered early.

Conduct guided user interviews by running prioritized, multi-round sessions using AskUserQuestion. Present up to four options per call with a maximum of three rounds to respect user time, synthesizing responses into a clear understanding requiring explicit confirmation.

Requirements validation works effectively for scoping high-level API endpoints and feature requests. It analyzes the task to surface ambiguities, prioritizes blocking questions about constraints like authentication patterns, and outputs a validated understanding requiring explicit user confirmation.

AskUserQuestion limitations for ambiguity discovery include a maximum of three rounds and up to four options per call. This constrained interaction model respects user time but requires careful prioritization of blocking questions to gather explicit requirements efficiently.