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    Interactive User Questions

    Sometimes the honest thing for an assistant to do is stop and ask. When Pando reaches a fork in the road, which database, which approach, what exactly did you mean, it pauses and shows you a small card with choices, like a waiter checking “still or sparkling?” before bringing the wrong bottle.

    What it does for you

    • Fewer wrong guesses. A ten-second answer from you saves ten minutes of work in the wrong direction.
    • Easy to answer. You pick from a few options instead of writing an essay. There is always an “Other” box when none fits.
    • Several questions in one go. Up to four related questions arrive together, and you see a summary of your answers before confirming.
    • More than one choice when it makes sense. Some questions let you tick several options.
    • Patient. If your connection drops or you reload the page, the question is still waiting.

    How it feels in practice

    Pando is halfway through a task and a card appears:

    Question 1/2: Database Choice
 ○ PostgreSQL
 ● SQLite
 ○ MySQL
 ○ Other

Question 2/2: ORM Preference
 ○ GORM
 ○ sqlx
 ○ Other

    You choose, confirm, and Pando carries on with your answers in hand.

    The card adapts to where you are: a window with mouse and keyboard in the Web UI and desktop app, a keyboard-driven dialog in the terminal interface, and a numbered list of options in an editor’s assistant panel, where Pando waits for you to reply in text.

    When to use it

    You do not call it; Pando does, when it needs you to decide about an approach, a design choice or an unclear request. To get more questions and fewer assumptions, say so (“ask me before deciding anything important”) or use Learning Mode.

    Good to know

    • Each round has one to four questions with two to four options each, so it never turns into a form.
    • It can be switched off if you prefer Pando never to interrupt with cards.
    • Questions are different from permission requests. A question is “which way?”; a permission request is “may I?”.

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