Confirmed via official Copilot CLI docs: there is no ask_user/elicitation tool available to custom agents (only execute/read/edit/search/agent/web/ todo aliases exist). Subagent calls made through the 'agent' tool are stateless — they run to completion and return one final result, with no mechanism to pause mid-task for a live human reply. This means conductor invoking interrogator via the agent tool could never work: interrogator would run as a subagent regardless of whether conductor itself was foreground or backgrounded, and subagents can't get real user answers. That's why it was silently writing fabricated decisions.md/ questionnaire.md content instead of actually asking anything. Fix: delete the interrogator agent entirely and fold its full Q&A procedure directly into conductor's own DESIGN PHASE, run inline in conductor's own foreground turn — never delegated. Updated the design skill/prompt, AGENTS.md, README, QUICKSTART, and role-tier config to match. Single entry point, no subagent path for anything that needs a live human answer.
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| Run the lean harness design gate through the design skill or Conductor's DESIGN PHASE. |
Design Prompt
Invoke the design skill, or invoke Conductor and run only its DESIGN PHASE section.
Use .agents/specs/<slug>/questionnaire.md and .agents/specs/<slug>/decisions.md.
If VS Code cannot run parallel subagents, proceed sequentially.
Stop until every required question is answered.