grilling

Use a structured grilling approach that maps your plan as a decision tree and interviews you in rounds. Each round asks only the questions whose prerequisites are settled, with recommended answers, until no assumptions remain unexplored.

A design tree models every decision as branching into the sub-decisions that depend on it. The frontier is the set of questions you can answer now without guessing at unresolved upstream choices, and it expands as each round settles more decisions.

It dispatches sub-agents to find facts from the filesystem or tools rather than asking the user. Questions downstream of a running exploration wait for the sub-agent, while the rest of the frontier is asked immediately.

Use grilling when you want exhaustive coverage of a decision rather than casual opinions. It continues round after round until the frontier is empty and every branch of the design tree has been visited, then waits for your confirmation before acting.

It depends on the quality of the questions asked and the honesty of your answers, and it cannot guarantee real-world outcomes. It surfaces assumptions and forces explicit decisions but does not execute or verify the plan itself.