When asked to grill, stress-test, or pressure-test an idea, or before a decision map or spec rests on an untested conversation, interview the decision maker in small rounds to expose assumptions and settle material choices.
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# Grilling
Read the [Codex desktop binding](../../../CODEX.md) when this workflow needs harness mechanics, model routing, or recovery.
A grilling session converts a half-formed idea into **shared understanding** by interviewing the decider until nothing load-bearing is still assumed. It is the pack's live, single-session instrument: no tickets, no map doc, no branch: the deliverable is agreement, reached out loud and then written down (see the closing record below).
Map the work as a **design tree**: every decision branches into the decisions that hang off it. You do not know the tree in advance; each answer grows it.
## Rounds and the frontier
The **frontier** is every decision whose prerequisites are already settled: the questions askable *now* without guessing at answers you have not heard. Record the whole frontier, then ask it in manageable independent batches. Where the repo binds [domain-memory](../../orient/domain-memory/SKILL.md), read the relevant decision records before composing the first round; a recorded decision is settled, not frontier, and reopens on new evidence, never on repetition.
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Source
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timharris707/skills · 44 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
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