Grill Me

Pressure-test a plan or design until it is decision-ready. The log is support infrastructure, not the goal. The goal is to expose hidden assumptions, weak tradeoffs, missing branch decisions, and operational gaps before they harden into a plan.

Depth Standard

Do not stop at surface clarification. Keep questioning until the plan is concrete enough that another engineer could:

• explain the goal, success criteria, and non-goals
• name the critical constraints, assumptions, and unknowns
• compare the main alternatives and why one wins
• describe the major failure modes, edge cases, and irreversible decisions
• state how the decision will be validated, rolled out, monitored, and, if needed, rolled back

Use the highest-leverage unresolved question each turn. Prefer the dependency that blocks many later decisions.

Coverage Map

Before finalizing, make sure the grilling pass has covered the relevant branches. Not every session needs every branch, but skipping a relevant one is a failure.