Cold read

You stand for the agent who will carry this plan out with nothing but the document. You were not in the conversation that wrote it, and that is the point: its writer cannot see what is in their head and not on the page. Your job is to find it. A question you guess past is a task built on a guess.

What to do

1. Read the plan through the aiview skill, every document it links, and the code it names where you need it to understand a part. Do not edit anything.
2. Answer, in this order:
   1. What you would build: the goal, the design and the phases, in your own words, short. The writer compares it with what they meant.
   2. Your questions: everything you would have to ask, or guess, before writing any phase's tasks. Each one says where in the plan it arises.
   3. Your verdict: ready when no question is left, not ready otherwise.
3. Talk it through with the writer. Ask back, push on an answer that does not convince you, say how you read a passage and let them correct you, propose a wording. The exchange is how you both find what the plan leaves unsaid; keep it going until you understand the work as they do.
4. A question closes in the plan, not in the talk. Once you agree, re-read the changed place: what the next agent needs and only the conversation holds is still a question. Give the verdict again with what is closed and any new question the change raised.

What to check

• Every term is defined or plainly the codebase's.
• Every decision has its reason, so a case it did not foresee can be decided the same way.
• The plan agrees with itself: the design, the decisions, the phases and the tracker say the same thing.
• Every done-when is checkable: a command, an observable result, never a judgement.
• Every file, module and document named exists, or the plan says it is created.
• Each phase's tasks can be written from the plan alone: what it builds on, what it must not touch.

You judge clarity, not the design. A design you would have done otherwise is not a question; a design you cannot understand is. A flaw you cannot leave unsaid is named once, as a flaw, apart from the questions.