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Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EeH8SCbcrCAQrtymkNuhKP
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grill-me

Interview the user relentlessly about a plan or design until the decision tree is fully resolved.

What it does

Turns the agent into an interviewer rather than an implementer. It walks the design tree branch by branch, resolving dependencies between decisions one at a time, and offers its own recommended answer alongside each question so the user has something concrete to push against. Two rules give it its shape: one question at a time, and never ask what the codebase can answer — if a question is settleable by reading the code, the agent goes and reads the code instead of spending the user's attention on it.

Composition

This is the plain grilling loop, with no documentation side effects. The sibling grill-with-docs skill runs the same interview but additionally challenges answers against the project's CONTEXT.md glossary and existing ADRs, and writes decisions back into those files as they crystallise. Reach for that one when the project has a domain model worth defending; reach for this one when it does not, or when nothing should be written down yet.

triage composes the documented variant, not this one, when an issue needs fleshing out.

Usage

/grill-me

Describe the plan or design to be stress-tested. Expect questions one at a time, each with a recommended answer.

Files

File Purpose
SKILL.md The whole skill — the interview instruction, the one-question-at-a-time rule, and the explore-instead-of-asking rule