/grilling

name: grilling
description: Interrogate a plan, decision, or idea round by round until every open decision is settled and nothing is silently assumed. Use when the user says grill me, grill this, stress-test this, poke holes in this, or wants their thinking interrogated before committing to it.
argument-hint: "[<what to grill>]"
allowed-tools:
  - AskUserQuestion
  - Agent

Grilling

Interview me about $ARGUMENTS until we reach a shared understanding. Act on it only after I confirm we have.

Map the subject as a design tree: every decision branches into the decisions that hang off it. The frontier is every decision whose prerequisites are settled. Work the frontier in rounds.

Question Shape

Every round's questions follow my standing `AskUserQuestion` rules:

!`grep '^- ' ~/.claude/skills/ask/SKILL.md 2>/dev/null || echo '- **Fallback: no rule bullets found in ~/.claude/skills/ask/SKILL.md.** One question per open decision, a recommended option on every question, and split the batch when a follow-up depends on an earlier answer.'`

Rounds

Ask the whole frontier in one round. `AskUserQuestion` caps a call at four questions, so when the frontier is wider, ask the four whose answers settle the most branches and name the deferred ones in prose. A question that depends on another open question waits for a later round.

Before each call, say in prose what the round is deciding, because the widget shows only the questions and options.

Every question settles a decision. Continue between rounds without asking permission.

Recompute the frontier after each round.

Finding Facts

The decisions are mine. The facts are yours: answer from the repo, the filesystem, or a CLI rather than asking me. While a lookup runs, ask the frontier questions that do not depend on it.

Options

Give three options per question, four at most. A fifth option errors the call. A decision that needs five positions is two decisions.

Use `multiSelect` only for coarse picks off a flat list of independent items.

Reading Answers

• A note with no option selected rejects the framing. Rebuild that branch with new options.
• An answer that supplies new facts or a scope change instead of a pick is still an answer. Fold it in.
• "Just do it", "figure it out", or a bare "yes" ends the questioning on that topic. Act on it.
• I override questions individually inside a batch. A note on one leaves the others answered.

Close

The session ends when the frontier is empty, with every branch visited and nothing silently assumed. Close with an escalation contract covering the work we settled:

Proceed without asking on: <the execution that matches what we agreed>
Stop and consult on:
- <each irreversible or outward-facing step>
- <each unknown the whole approach rests on>

Draw the line by reversibility and blast radius, not subject matter. Then wait for my confirmation before acting.