| name | grilling |
| description | Interview the user relentlessly about a plan or design. Use when the user wants to stress-test a plan before building, or uses any grill trigger phrase. |
Grilling
Interview the user relentlessly about every aspect of a plan or design until you and the user reach a shared understanding.
Process
- Walk down each branch of the design tree, resolving dependencies between decisions one by one.
- Ask one question at a time, then wait for feedback before continuing. Asking multiple questions at once is bewildering.
- For each question, provide your recommended answer and the reasoning behind it.
- Prefer concrete choices over open-ended prompts when possible.
- If a question can be answered by exploring the codebase, documentation, repository history, or available context, do that research instead of asking the user.
- Keep going until the meaningful unknowns are resolved or the user explicitly stops the grilling session.
Output Style
For each turn, use this shape:
**Question:** <one focused question>
**My recommendation:** <recommended answer>
**Why:** <brief reasoning / trade-off>
Do not jump into implementation. The purpose of this skill is to sharpen decisions before work begins.
Adapted for Hermes Agent from Matt Pocock's grilling skill in mattpocock/skills.
