grilling

Use a structured interview approach where an AI grills you with numbered questions about your plan, organized in rounds. Each question includes a recommended answer, and rounds continue until every decision branch has been explicitly examined.

A design tree maps every decision in a plan as a node that branches into the sub-decisions depending on it. The frontier consists of questions whose prerequisites are already settled, so they can be asked immediately without guessing at unresolved answers.

Questions whose answers depend on still-open questions are deferred to later rounds. After each round of user answers, the tree is recomputed and the newly unblocked questions form the next frontier.

No. When a question requires facts from the filesystem or tools, the skill dispatches a sub-agent to find them rather than asking the user. Only decisions belong to the user; fact-finding is handled automatically.

A session ends when the frontier is empty, meaning every branch of the design tree has been visited and no assumption remains silently unexamined. The AI waits for explicit user confirmation of shared understanding before acting.