---

name: asking-the-user description: Use when a decision is the user's to make (which option, which target, go or stop), when a question has a handful of answers rather than a conversation, or when the user is watching the board rather than the chat. Asks on the stickypane board with a form that has buttons, waits for the press, and reads the answer back.

Asking the user on the board

# 1. write .sticky/deploy.md (below), then
stickypane show deploy
# 2. wait for a button, always with a limit
stickypane wait deploy --timeout 10m

The form:

---
type: form
title: Deploy now?
---
The build is green. Where should it go?

## Target
- ( ) staging
  Try it there first.
- ( ) production

## Also
- [ ] run migrations

## Note
>

[ Deploy ] [ Cancel ]

Line	Is
- ( ) text	one choice among the options under the same heading
- [ ] text	any number of choices
indented line under an option	what choosing it means
>	a line the user types into
[ Label ] [ Label ]	the buttons; a form without any gets [ Submit ]

wait prints one line per question:

submitted: Deploy
at: 2026-10-02T14:03:05+09:00
Target: production
Also: run migrations
Note: after lunch

--json gives {"submitted":true,"button":"Deploy","answers":[...]}. Exit code 3: the time ran out and nothing is printed. Exit code 1: the note is not a form or is not there. stickypane answers deploy prints the same now, without waiting (submitted: no until a button is pressed).

Report the answer in one line; acting on it is the caller's job. Then stickypane hide deploy, or leave the form as the record of the decision.

Rules

• Ask only what you cannot decide yourself, and only once.
• One question, or a few that belong together, per form. A question is a heading with its options under it.
• Name buttons by what they do ([ Deploy ] [ Cancel ]), never [ OK ].
• When the time runs out, say so and take the safe path or ask in chat. Never guess the answer.
• To ask again, write the form without the submitted keys; a form that still has them answers at once with the old choice.
• An answer that is a sentence, or a back and forth: talking-in-chat.
• ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/rules/touching-the-board.md applies.