v0.328.4 - A skill that stops to ask says how the turn ends

2026-10-22. Two skills stop partway to ask for the person's own judgment before the agent shows its analysis:
diamond-assess (step 0, where do you think this diamond stands) and diamond-progress (step 1b, are we ready to
record this decision). Both said "wait for the response" and neither said how that turn ends. The contract's rule 12
asks every turn in which a skill ran to end with one Next: line, and a question for the person is allowed as that
action, but the agent reads the skill at that moment, not the rule. So it ended on the question, the next-action Stop
hook blocked the turn, and Claude Code showed the person "Stop hook error" under a question they had not yet answered.
On the dogfood project this was 3 of the hook's first 5 blocks, all at diamond-assess step 0, from 2026-10-05 to
2026-10-22. A fourth block was the same pause in purpose-properties, so the contract's rule 12 now says it for
every skill: a turn that stops partway through a skill to ask the person something ends with the question as its
Next: action. The two skills also name their closing line at the pause: the question as the action, the step as
what it rests on.

Alternatives not taken. Letting the hook pass a turn that ends on a question: it would also pass a turn that
ends on a rhetorical one, and the line is what tells the person the skill is waiting on them. Leaving it to the
contract: rule 12 already said it, and the measured blocks happened with the contract loaded.