clarify git:20260817.f04083fA

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name: clarify
description: Turn words with two readings into one confirmed ask. Use when the user's words admit two readings that would build different things.
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Name the readings apart, each ending in what it would build or do differently. As short as they go with nothing that tells them apart lost — plain words. Then ask the user to pick.

One exchange: readings out, pick back. If the user cannot pick, the words are not the problem — stop.

Take the pick as the confirmed ask, restate it, and name what it leaves open. As short as it goes with nothing in the ask lost — plain words.

The ask is already concrete and the pull is to keep questioning its decisions → use **interrogate** skill. The user holds something no reading of their words captures → use **elicit** skill.