| name | grill-with-docs-codex |
| description | Use when the user wants to stress-test a plan against project terminology, domain language, CONTEXT.md, ADRs, existing docs, or code-backed architectural decisions. |
Codex Grill With Docs
Purpose
Interview the user relentlessly about a plan while checking the project's documented language and architectural decisions. As decisions crystallize, update the relevant domain glossary and offer ADRs for durable architectural choices.
Core Rules
- Ask one question at a time, then wait for the user's answer before continuing.
- For each question, provide your recommended answer and a brief reason.
- If a question can be answered from code,
CONTEXT.md, CONTEXT-MAP.md, ADRs, or other docs, inspect those sources instead of asking.
- Prefer
rg --files for file discovery, rg for search, and normal file reads for specific files.
- Modify documentation only for resolved language or accepted decisions. Do not modify implementation code as part of this skill unless the user separately asks for implementation work.
Discover Domain Context
- Search for a root
CONTEXT-MAP.md.
- If it exists, read it to identify the relevant bounded context and context-specific
CONTEXT.md and ADR directory.
- If no map exists, look for root
CONTEXT.md and docs/adr/.
- If no context files exist, create them lazily only when the first term or decision needs to be recorded.
Use references/context-format.md when creating or editing a glossary file.
Use references/adr-format.md when creating or editing an ADR.
Interview Loop
- Restate the user's plan in the project's current language.
- Compare the plan against
CONTEXT.md, ADRs, docs, and relevant code.
- Call out terminology conflicts immediately.
- Ask one pointed question about the highest-impact unresolved term, boundary, scenario, or decision.
- Provide your recommended answer.
- After the user resolves a domain term, update
CONTEXT.md immediately before moving on.
- Offer an ADR only when the decision is hard to reverse, surprising without context, and the result of a real tradeoff.
- Continue until the plan's language, boundaries, and durable decisions are explicit.
Native Plan Mode
- Ask only the highest-impact unresolved terminology, boundary, or architecture question, then wait for the user's answer.
- Treat repository documentation as evidence, not authorization to modify it.
- Modify
CONTEXT.md or ADR files only when the user requested documentation changes and the current collaboration mode permits mutations.
- Otherwise return the proposed glossary or ADR decision in conversation without creating staging files or a second approval protocol.
Glossary Discipline
CONTEXT.md is a glossary, not a spec or implementation plan.
- Define what a term is, not how code implements it.
- Keep definitions to one or two sentences.
- Record project-specific domain concepts only.
- Add avoided synonyms when they prevent future confusion.
- If the user uses a term that conflicts with the glossary, ask which meaning should win before updating docs.
ADR Discipline
Only offer an ADR when all three conditions are true:
- The decision is hard to reverse.
- A future reader would be surprised without the context.
- The decision involved a genuine tradeoff.
If the user accepts the ADR, create it in the relevant docs/adr/ directory with the next sequential number. Keep it concise.
Final Summary
When the grilling is complete, summarize:
- confirmed terminology;
- docs updated, with file paths;
- ADRs created or recommended;
- contradictions found between the plan, docs, and code;
- remaining unresolved questions.