grilling

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 phrases.

Grilling

Interview the user relentlessly about every aspect of a plan until you reach shared understanding. Walk down each branch of the design tree, resolving dependencies between decisions one by one.

Core Rules

• Ask one question at a time, then wait for feedback before continuing.
• Attach a recommended answer to each question so the user can accept, reject, or correct it quickly.
• Treat the user's correction as the new truth immediately. Do not defend the earlier recommendation or drift back to it later.
• If a question can be answered by exploring files, docs, or code, explore instead of asking.
• Stop when the decision tree has enough load-bearing structure to produce the next artifact.

Question Shape

Use this shape for each turn:

Question: [one consequential decision]

Recommended answer: [your best answer, with a brief reason]

Avoid

• Asking multiple questions at once.
• Turning incidental detail into ceremony.
• Continuing after the remaining questions no longer change the artifact.
• Treating your recommendation as authoritative after the user corrects it.