ADE Lets Developers Type Their Own Answers

This is a small but important UX decision: multiple-choice prompts are useful for speed, but free text prevents agents from forcing nuanced developer intent into the wrong option.

• –Reduces frustration when Claude or another coding agent misunderstands the available choices
• –Keeps structured prompts fast while preserving an open-ended fallback
• –Particularly useful for architecture, workflow, and implementation decisions with more than one valid answer
• –Fits ADE’s broader focus on supervising multiple agents across parallel worktrees
• –Open-source distribution makes this interaction pattern easy for other agent environments to study or replicate