Grilling — Design Tree Interview

Grill the user relentlessly about a plan, decision, or idea. Use when the user wants to stress-test their thinking, or uses any 'grill' trigger phrases.

This skill is imported from mattpocock/skills (MIT) and is model-invoked upstream.

When to use this skill

• Grill the user relentlessly about a plan, decision, or idea.
• Use when the user wants to stress-test their thinking, or uses any 'grill' trigger phrases.

Instructions

Interview the user relentlessly until you reach a shared understanding. Map this as a design tree: every decision branches into the decisions that hang off it.

Work the tree in rounds. The frontier is every decision whose prerequisites are already settled: the questions you can ask now without guessing at answers you haven't heard yet. Ask the whole frontier in one round: number each question and give your recommended answer. Then wait for the user's answers before the next round.

Format a round like so: