Augment Code implements "Ask Me Once" agent rule

The "Ask Me Once" rule marks a critical shift from reactive chat-based AI to truly autonomous background agents that prioritize progress over clarification.

• –Forcing agents to make conservative assumptions instead of pausing for clarification significantly reduces "notification fatigue" in multi-hour coding tasks
• –Enhanced self-diagnostic logging ensures that when an agent does fail, the developer has immediate context on its "thought process" without manual tracing
• –This methodology is essential for scaling agentic workflows where constant synchronization becomes the primary bottleneck for engineering velocity
• –It signals a maturation of the AI IDE category, moving away from needy chat interfaces toward reliable, independent engineering agents that operate like senior developers