grilling

Trigger a grilling session where the AI interviews you in rounds, numbering each question and offering recommended answers. It maps your plan as a design tree and only asks questions whose prerequisites are already settled, continuing until no assumptions remain.

A design tree models every decision as branching into the sub-decisions that depend on it. The frontier is the set of questions answerable now without guessing at unresolved answers, and each answered round pushes the frontier outward.

Yes. When a question needs facts from the filesystem or tools, the skill dispatches a sub-agent to find them rather than asking you. Only questions downstream of that exploration wait; the rest of the frontier is asked immediately.

The session ends when the frontier is empty, meaning every branch of the design tree has been visited and nothing is silently assumed. The AI will not act on the outcome until you confirm shared understanding has been reached.

Use it when your plan contains unresolved dependencies, untested assumptions, or ambiguous requirements. Direct doc writing works for well-understood problems, while grilling exposes gaps in thinking before they become implementation bugs.