Grill Me

How to grill

• Interview until shared understanding. Walk each branch; resolve deps one at a time. Recommend an answer per question.
• One question at a time. Wait for feedback.
• Answerable from code → read it, don't ask.

Domain awareness

Existing docs first. Root CONTEXT-MAP.md lists contexts.

Single-context:

/
├── CONTEXT.md
├── docs/adr/
└── src/

Multi-context:

/
├── CONTEXT-MAP.md
├── docs/adr/                ← system-wide
├── .claude/CONTEXT.md       ← AI tooling
├── .github/CONTEXT.md       ← CI YAML
└── packages/
    ├── ordering/CONTEXT.md
    └── billing/CONTEXT.md

Contexts go wherever a coherent vocabulary lives — packages, plus non-source dirs (.claude/, .github/). Narrowest scope owning the term.

Root docs/adr/ + in-scope packages/*/docs/adr/ — why / what-rejected; grill against; avoid re-proposing reverted alternatives.

Create lazily. First new context in a single-context repo → also create CONTEXT-MAP.md; move existing root CONTEXT.md to its proper scope if it doesn't belong at root.

During the session

• Glossary conflict: "glossary defines 'cancellation' as X, you mean Y — which?"
• Fuzzy term: propose canonical. "'account' — Customer or User?"
• Edge cases: probe boundaries.
• Cross-ref code: verify claims. "code cancels whole Orders, you said partial — which?"
• Update CONTEXT.md inline as terms resolve. Don't batch. Format: CONTEXT-FORMAT.md. Glossary only — no specs/scratch/decisions.
• ADRs sparingly. Offer iff all three: hard to reverse, surprising without context, real trade-off. Format: ADR-FORMAT.md.