Clarify

Open questions block the frame. This walks them until each one is answered or parked, and nothing is left dangling. Run it with the owner present — every answer is theirs, not yours.

[NEEDS CLARIFICATION: <question>]                                    blocks: no honest assumption yet
[PARKED: <question> · assume: <what we build on> · if wrong: <cost> · #12]   does not block

K1 refuses a framed document holding a NEEDS CLARIFICATION, and refuses a PARKED missing any of its three parts. That is the whole rule: you may proceed without an answer, but not without saying what you are assuming, what it costs if you are wrong, and where the real answer is being chased.

1 — Collect

pnpm status lists every open question as file:line — question. Read each one in place: the sentence around it says what depends on the answer. Group questions that share an answer; ask once.

Before asking, look for a tracker that already exists (gh issue list --search "<key words>", the PRD's OD- list, decisions.md). A question someone already filed an issue for is being chased, and its tracker is that issue — but an issue is not an assumption. If the question can be parked (§2), convert the marker and cite the issue; if it is still blocking, leave NEEDS CLARIFICATION and name the issue beside it.

2 — One at a time

For each question, in the order they block things (frame before PRD before evidence):

1. State what it blocks. "The concierge test's sample is only valid if the channels reach strangers" beats "channels?".
2. Offer 2–4 concrete options with the consequence of each, and a recommendation. Never a bare "what do you want?" — the user's time is the scarce thing.
3. Take the answer and sort it:
   • Answered → write it into the text, delete the marker. If it rules something out for good, add a line to decisions.md (an ID, why, consequences), with an Amends: F-<n> line when it changes a feature and a Reopens when: or Closes when: line when something should bring it back or end it. A heading clause no event fits is removed from the heading, and the condition kept as body prose beneath, where the sync note counts it. A re-read that leaves the decision open writes open — reopened YYYY-MM-DD as the heading's status and Reopened YYYY-MM-DD: open again in place of the condition.
   • Parked → rewrite as [PARKED: … · assume: … · if wrong: … · <ref>]. The assumption must be something you would actually build on today; the cost must be concrete ("the sample is not strangers, so the threshold means nothing"), not "we might have to change it".
   • Blocking → leave it as NEEDS CLARIFICATION and say plainly that the frame cannot be finished until someone answers it. Do not invent an assumption to unblock the check.
4. Every parked question gets a tracker before you move on: an existing issue, a new one, or a PRD OD- / decisions.md PD- entry when it is a decision rather than a task. With no existing one, offer to file it now — /log-followup with the parent, or gh issue create --title "<question>" --body "<file:line, the assumption, the cost if wrong, what it blocks>" — and on a yes, write the number it returns into the [PARKED: … · #n] marker in the same step. Filing the issue and converting the marker are one act: an issue filed while the marker still says NEEDS CLARIFICATION is the failure L-67 names. untracked in pnpm status means it will be forgotten.

3 — Close out

• Re-run pnpm status and pnpm meta: no open questions left that you agreed to close, K1 green, every parked one listed with its tracker.
• Commit on a branch, one PR (Lane: bounded), ## Verification showing both outputs.
• Report: answered (with what changed), parked (with assumption, cost, tracker), still blocking (with who must answer and by when). If anything is still blocking, say what it stops — usually setting FRAME to framed, or the PRD to approved.

A parked question is a debt, not a decision. When its tracker closes, come back: replace the marker with the answer, and correct anything the assumption shaped. /close-milestone reads them too — a milestone that shipped on an assumption nobody went back to check is worth saying out loud.