Grill me

Skill alirezarezvani/claude-skills/engineering/grill-me/skills/grill-me

Interview the user relentlessly about a plan or design until reaching shared understanding, resolving each branch of the decision tree. Use when user wants to stress-test a plan, get grilled on their design, or mentions "grill me".From its SKILL.md

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Grill Me

Derived from Matt Pocock's grill-me (MIT). Matt's interview discipline preserved verbatim. Additions: extraction + question + session tools + references + cs-* wrapper (see references/companion_tooling.md).

Interview me relentlessly about every aspect of this plan until we reach a shared understanding. Walk down each branch of the design tree, resolving dependencies between decisions one-by-one. For each question, provide your recommended answer.

Ask the questions one at a time.

If a question can be answered by exploring the codebase, explore the codebase instead.

Rules (preserved + amplified)

One question per turn. Never bundle.
Provide a recommended answer with each question. Defaulting to "what do you think?" is lazy.
Explore the codebase before asking. If grep / Read resolves it, do that first. Saves a turn.
Walk the tree depth-first. Finish a branch before opening another.
Track dependencies. If decision B depends on decision A, ask A first.

Workflow

User provides a plan or design (or path to one).
Run scripts/decision_tree_extractor.py to extract branches.
Run scripts/question_generator.py to produce the question list with recommendations.
Start a session: scripts/grill_session_tracker.py --action start.
Walk the tree, one question at a time, recording answers in the session.
When all branches resolved: report "shared understanding reached" + the locked-in decisions.

Output Pattern

Per question turn:

Q[i]/[total]: [question]
Recommended answer: [your call + 1-sentence rationale]

(Or: I explored the codebase and found [evidence]. Confirm?)

Tooling

See references/companion_tooling.md. Tools: extractor + generator + tracker. Agent: cs-grill-master. Command: /cs:grill-me.

Version: 1.0.0 Derived: Matt Pocock (MIT) + this repo's wrapper

What ships with it: 6 files

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