Cross-role engineering grill — Matt Pocock 7 questions per role × 3 roles (fullstack / frontend / backend) = up to 21 forcing questions, one per turn, with canon citations and kill criteria. Default: ask which lane first; `--all` runs all 21.
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Cross-role engineering grill — Matt Pocock 7 questions per role × 3 roles (fullstack / frontend / backend) = up to 21 forcing questions, one per turn, with canon citations and kill criteria. Default: ask which lane first; `--all` runs all 21.
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---description: "Cross-role engineering grill — Matt Pocock 7 questions per role × 3 roles (fullstack / frontend / backend) = up to 21 forcing questions, one per turn, with canon citations and kill criteria. Default: ask which lane first; `--all` runs all 21."
argument-hint: "<plan or architecture to grill> [--lane fullstack|frontend|backend|all]"
---# /cs:engineer-grill — Cross-role engineering forcing-question grill
Walk the user through the Matt Pocock forcing-question discipline before they lock any engineering decision. This is the **grill-with-docs** pattern (canon-anchored, recommended answers, kill criteria) applied across the three engineering role lanes.
**$ARGUMENTS**
## Routing protocol
1. **Detect lane signals** in the user's prompt:
- **Fullstack signals:** "scaffold", "stack", "Next.js + Postgres", "monorepo", "deploy", "team size", "budget", "cadence"
- **Frontend signals:** "React", "Next", "Remix", "Vite", "Astro", "bundle", "LCP", "INP", "CLS", "a11y", "WCAG", "Tailwind", "design system"
- **Backend signals:** "API", "REST", "GraphQL", "database", "Postgres", "MongoDB", "schema", "migration", "QPS", "tenancy", "SLO", "Kafka", "queue", "microservice", "monolith"
2. **If `--lane <name>` is supplied:** walk only that lane's 7 questions.
3. **If lane signals score ≥ 3 hits for one lane:** confirm with the user, then walk that lane's 7 questions.
4. **If lane signals are ambiguous OR `--lane all`:** ask the user: "Fullstack (7 Qs about team / stack / scale), Frontend (7 Qs about device / rendering / bundle / a11y), or Backend (7 Qs about QPS / tenancy / pattern / SLO)? Or `all` for all 21."
