elicit

SKILL.md

Elicitation

This skill guides you through building Allium specifications by conversation. The goal is to surface ambiguities and produce a specification that captures what the software does without prescribing implementation.

Scoping the specification

Before diving into details, establish what you are specifying. Not everything needs to be in one spec.

Questions to ask first

"What's the boundary of this specification?" A complete system? A single feature area? One service in a larger system? Be explicit about what is in and out of scope.

"Are there areas we should deliberately exclude?" Third-party integrations might be library specs. Legacy features might not be worth specifying. Some features might belong in separate specs.

"Is this a new system or does code already exist?" If code exists, you are doing distillation with elicitation. Existing code constrains what is realistic to specify.

Documenting scope decisions

Capture scope at the start of every spec: