fix(product): ask the brownfield question even in unattended runs

[AlexanderMakarov]

The silent-prompt brownfield branch of commands/product.md ended with "This question is reached only in an interactive run whose prompt expressed no preference; an unattended run states its choice in the prompt." In practice a model reads that as permission to skip the question and silently pick a default — observed consistently in awos-qa e2e runs: the explore/skip choice from #137 never reaches the user.

Since #141 the deliverable Write no longer waits on any answer, so asking is always safe. This is a one-line change to the Silent-prompt branch:

• always ask when source-code indicators are found — the sentence carving out session modes is gone; the prompt no longer reasons about interactive vs. unattended at all,
• exact option labels pinned (models were paraphrasing "No, start from scratch" into "No, from scratch", breaking downstream consumers that key on the documented labels),
• explicit default when the question goes unanswered (Yes, explore), consistent with the existing INTERACTION rule that an unanswered question is never a stop signal.

Validated with awos-qa: product-brownfield-offers-skip and product-brownfield-declines-skips-exploration green 4× in a row unattended against this branch (they fail against current main); companion QA-side changes in provectus/awos-qa#34.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Updated the Creation Mode guidance for silent prompts when no preference is provided.
  • If an existing codebase is detected, users are now always asked whether to explore the codebase or start from scratch.
  • If the prompt is left unanswered, the default choice now continues with exploring the codebase.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Updated documentation in commands/product.md revises the Creation Mode brownfield decision logic. The silent prompt branch now always asks via AskUserQuestion with fixed labels when source code indicators are detected, defaulting to "Yes, explore the codebase" if left unanswered.

Changes

Product command documentation update

Layer / File(s)	Summary
AskUserQuestion default behavior update commands/product.md	Instructions now always prompt via AskUserQuestion with fixed option labels when existing source-code indicators are found, defaulting to "Yes, explore the codebase" if unanswered.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~3 minutes

Possibly related PRs

• provectus/awos#137: Overlaps with the brownfield-aware Creation Mode flow in commands/product.md, including existing-source detection and user triage.
• provectus/awos#141: Directly overlaps with handling of unanswered AskUserQuestion defaulting to explore and continuing product file writing.

Suggested reviewers: dustyo-O

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly describes the main change: always asking the brownfield question, including unattended runs.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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