Both skills now have a hard cap on clarifying questions / scope ambiguity:
- deep-research (general profile dispatcher): 3 questions default, 5 hard cap,
abort at 6+. If the operator's question is under-specified, push back
rather than fire 6+ questions.
- deep-web-research (research profile methodology): headless, no operator
to ask. Detects under-specified questions and aborts with a structured
report naming the plausible interpretations, instead of dispatching with
a guessed scope.
This addresses the workshopping rule: 'up to 10 clarifying questions at
start, with max clarity.' Consensus after peer review: 10 is too many,
tighter cap forces prioritization. Abort at 6+ is the signal that the
question itself is broken, not the agent's question-asking budget.
Hermes Agent