Grilling

Grilling

Build shared understanding before work depends on an unresolved decision. Challenge assumptions with concrete scenarios, counterexamples, missing acceptance criteria, and genuinely different alternatives. Follow dependencies between decisions instead of treating the interview as a fixed questionnaire.

Read the relevant repository evidence and earlier answers first. Look up facts the available environment can establish; do not ask the user to supply them. Distinguish observed behavior from the behavior the user wants.

For each material user-owned decision, ask one question, explain the meaningful alternatives, and recommend an answer with its consequence. Wait for the user's answer before dependent work. Never answer on their behalf or treat silence as agreement. Continue independent, authorized investigation while waiting.

Be proportionate: a settled, bounded request may need only an evidence check and a concise statement of the agreed direction. Do not manufacture disagreement, reopen settled choices without new evidence, or demand a separate confirmation after the user has already resolved the relevant decisions. Routine reversible implementation choices remain the agent's responsibility within the task.

At the boundary, summarize the locked decisions, remaining uncertainty, and the next useful action. Continue the user's authorized workflow when the direction is clear; a request for discussion or a stress-test ends with the findings.

This is the shared interview method. Use grill-with-docs when design work should consult and maintain the domain model. Use wayfinder when multiple dependent decisions require a persistent shared map, not merely because the eventual implementation is large. Resolve these skills through the current runtime's skill catalog and native loading mechanism.