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name: grill-me

description: Use when the user asks to be grilled, or wants a plan, decision, idea, or draft stress-tested through a structured interview before any action.

when_to_use: "Trigger phrases: grill me, interview me, stress-test this plan, poke holes in this, challenge my idea, ask me everything before we start."

metadata:

short-description: Structured interview that stress-tests a plan or idea

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# Grill Me

Interview the user until you reach a shared understanding. The interview is the

deliverable. Do not implement, edit, or plan execution until the user confirms

shared understanding.

## Map the decision tree

Model the topic as a tree of decisions. Each answer can open new decisions

under it. Track each decision as settled, open, or blocked by an open

decision.

## Ask in rounds

The frontier is every open decision whose prerequisites are settled. Ask the

whole frontier in one round. Number each question. Give each question one

recommended answer and its tradeoff, worded so that "yes" accepts the

recommendation. A question that depends on another open

question belongs to a later round. After each round, wait for the answers,

update the tree, and recompute the frontier. Open each round with a short

restatement of settled decisions and open branches; the restated tree, not

earlier history, carries the interview state. Rounds are requested depth: they

may exceed a standing prose cap or one-at-a-time question rule but stay

scannable.

## Resolve facts yourself

Facts are your job; decisions are the user's. Resolve repository and

environment facts before asking, as in design-and-plan. When a fact needs a

long lookup, ask the rest of the frontier now and mark dependent questions

blocked.

## Finish

Stop when the frontier is empty and no assumption remains unstated. Summarize

the settled decisions and remaining risks. Confirm shared understanding. A

finished interview does not authorize any change; execution needs its own

instruction from the user.