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Question 1 of 5 — Goal

What exactly needs to happen?

One concrete outcome. Not "improve the auth" — "add rate limiting to POST /auth/login: 5 attempts per IP per 15 minutes, return 429 with Retry-After header."

Question 2 of 5 — Context

What's the stack?

Pick what applies. Claude uses this to write idiomatic code for your environment.

Node.js TypeScript React Next.js Python FastAPI Rails PostgreSQL Redis Supabase Docker Prisma

Question 3 of 5 — Scope

Which files or directories will this touch?

Be specific. Name the files if you know them. "The auth module" is too vague. "app/api/auth/login.ts and app/middleware/rate-limit.ts" gives Claude a target.

What should NOT be touched?

tests database schema UI components config files unrelated routes package.json

Question 4 of 5 — Done Criteria

How do you know it's done?

At least one concrete, checkable condition. "It works" is not a done criterion. "curl -X POST /auth/login returns 429 after 5 attempts" is.

Question 5 of 5 — Constraints

Any constraints or gotchas?

Known edge cases, tech debt to avoid, performance requirements, things a new engineer would get wrong. Leave blank if none.

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