dsh-ask-first

When you tell an agent "build me an admin dashboard," it often rushes into code, silently deciding user roles, permissions, information hierarchy, and success criteria on the fly. The result works, but it is rarely what you intended. dsh-ask-first closes that gap: before any substantive work begins, it turns a fuzzy request into a confirmed plan.

The plugin follows an inspect-then-ask loop. The agent first reads the repository and current product for evidence, then asks only about decisions that the evidence cannot settle and that would materially change the design. Each round carries at most three questions, and earlier answers shape later ones; there is no fixed questionnaire. Once discovery wraps, the agent drafts a concise brief covering outcome, users, scope, constraints, and acceptance checks, and you confirm or revise it in the native DSH dialog. Precise, low-risk tasks like fixing a named typo skip the interview entirely.

It is built for developers working on product-level or cross-module features inside DSH where the requirement boundary is still open. The plugin adds no second chat UI, no external service, and no database; it layers on the native ask_user_question and Plan Mode primitives, ready to use the moment you install it.