stevennitesh Grilling
Settle one bounded decision through live questioning. Write nothing and start nothing downstream.
1. Bound
Preserve any caller-supplied subject, decision owner, authority, identifiers, and return owner. Otherwise the user owns the decision, scope changes, confirmation, and return. If the subject contains several independent decisions, first narrow it to one outcome or decision.
Ask only about a choice whose plausible answers could change that outcome, its commitment boundary, a material dependency, or a stated human-judgment consequence.
2. Learn
Inspect available facts instead of asking the user to retrieve them. For an engineering choice, trace real callers and existing constraints. A hypothetical or preferred style is not material without a reachable consequence. Ask participant-held facts, goals, and constraints neutrally.
3. Grill
Maintain the decision frontier: material decisions whose prerequisites are settled. Ask its highest-leverage decision one at a time. Recommend only after the decision-relevant prerequisites are known, and state the decisive tradeoff.
Recompute after each answer, fact, deferral, or invalidation. Let a blocked branch pause only its dependents. Treat adoption of the recommendation as a decision, postponement as a deferral, and inability or refusal to decide as unavailable authority. Never repeat an unchanged question.
When no frontier decision can advance and a required branch remains blocked, load Terminal gap routing, return one gap, and stop. Otherwise do not load it.
4. Confirm and return
Present the decision, reasons, decisive tradeoffs, material deferrals, and evidence limits. For one decision with no material deferral or evidence limit, the owner's explicit choice also confirms the understanding. Otherwise obtain explicit confirmation.
Return the confirmed understanding to the supplied return owner, or to the user on direct invocation. Include caller identifiers only when supplied. Stop without selecting or starting downstream work.
Complete when the owner has confirmed one bounded understanding or Grilling has returned one exact gap it cannot resolve conversationally.