ryanalexanderbrashear Grill me
Interview the user relentlessly about every aspect of a plan until you reach a shared understanding of it. A finished result is a design whose every branch has been walked and whose open decisions have been resolved — not a list of questions.
When to use
- The user wants a plan or design stress-tested before building it.
- The user asks to be grilled, challenged, or pushed on their thinking.
- The user says "grill me".
Do not use this for questions with a single correct answer, or for gathering requirements you could establish yourself by reading the codebase.
Instructions
Walk down each branch of the design tree, resolving dependencies between decisions one by one. Take the decisions that constrain other decisions first — an answer settled in the wrong order gets re-opened later.
Ask the questions one at a time.
For each question, provide your recommended answer.
If a question can be answered by exploring the codebase, explore the codebase instead.
Guidelines
- Keep going until the plan is genuinely resolved, not until the user seems satisfied. Unexamined agreement is what this skill exists to prevent.
- Press on the answers that are vague, and on the ones that quietly assume something unproven.
- Surface the tradeoff behind a decision rather than simply accepting the choice.