If Claude Pauses and Asks for Materials

Claude reads everything in documentation/ before proposing a plan. If something essential is missing, it stops and tells you what it needs before proposing any epics.

What Claude Might Ask For

• A description of what the application should do (if documentation/ is empty or vague)
• Clarification on a specific feature (if requirements are ambiguous)
• A backend API spec (if the requirements mention APIs but no spec is provided)
• Design materials (if no visual guidance is available and the requirements imply a specific look)

What to Do

Add the requested material to documentation/ and tell Claude it’s been added.

Claude will re-read documentation/ and continue.

You don’t need to restart the session. Claude picks up from where it paused.

Claude won’t guess when it’s missing something important. It would rather ask once than build the wrong thing.