askme

# Ask me ## Contract | Field | Bound contract | |---|---| | Trigger | Ambiguous task or elicitation request; long, bundled, high-stakes, hard-to-undo instruction; ambiguous scope or referents; or explicit mode: exhaustive, collaborative, adversarial, gate, batch, interview, scan, or proposal. | | Authority | Reversible local. Writes only the user-approved decision log file in interview mode or one durable "understood as: ..." log line for substantial work after gate decision; every other mode emits chat output only. Rollback is deleting that file or log line. No remote mutation. | | Side effect | Question sets, findings reports, and intent proposals in chat; interview mode writes one named local file after approval; gate mode writes one durable understood-as log line for substantial work after the gate decision and nothing before it; no other mode writes. | | Done | The selected mode's terminal state holds: intent confirmed, frontier empty, record approved and written, no open manual finding, proposal answered, or gate mode stopped on no signal or passed after a paraphrased, context-checked restatement with any genuine fork surfaced, the required substantial-work log line written, and no premature action. | ## Inputs - The user's task, request, or handed-over material (required). - Mode selector: `exhaustive` (default), `collaborative`, `adversarial`, `gate`, `batch`, `interview`, `scan`, or `proposal`. Auto-detected from invoking phrasing; an explicit mode argument alway...