Product & Project ManagementOpen accessPublished 3 Oct 2026
Researches the codebase for prior art, reusable utilities, and constraints, generates two to four genuinely distinct technical approaches to an agreed spec.md, compares them in a table of architecture fit, risk, effort, and reversibility with a clear recommendation, and writes the approach the user picks, the rejected alternatives, and the consequences into the Approach section of spec.md, plus a decision record when the choice is consequential. Stage 2 of the product-engineering loop, gate G2. Use when the user says brainstorm approaches, what are our options, how should we build this, compare approaches, or when a spec is agreed and the technical direction is still open…