High-Stakes Grill

Grill a plan with selective autonomy: resolve ordinary questions yourself, but stop for human judgment when an answer would materially change the direction, risk, or cost of the work.

Start

1. Find the plan in the conversation, repo, issue, PRD, or named file. If none is clear, ask what to grill.

2. When file writes are allowed, create a scratch decision log:

   node <this-skill-dir>/scripts/new-high-stakes-grill-run.mjs "short plan title" --root .
   

   If the script is unavailable, manually create .workflow/high-stakes-grill/<timestamp>-<slug>/decision-log.md and ensure .workflow/ is locally ignored. If the active host mode forbids file writes, keep the same context capsule and decision ledger in chat until writes are allowed.

3. Keep the log current after every decision. Update the context capsule near the top so the session can recover after compaction.

Decision Loop

Repeat until no meaningful open questions remain: