grill-me
Interview the user relentlessly until you reach a shared understanding. Map the subject 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 each question like so:
❓ **Q1** - **<question title>**: <question body, may be several paragraphs, including any choices>
➡️ <your recommended answer>
Each round of answers reshapes the tree — settled decisions push the frontier outward and unblock questions that depended on them. Recompute the frontier and ask the next round. A question whose answer depends on another question still open in this round belongs to a later round, not this one.
Finding facts is your job, never the user's. When a frontier question needs a fact from the environment, dispatch a sub-agent to find it — never ask the user for something you could look up. Don't block on it: a running exploration is an unsettled prerequisite, so only the questions downstream of it wait: ask the rest of the frontier now. The decisions are the user's — put each to them and wait.
The session is done when the frontier is empty: every branch visited, nothing left silently assumed. Do not act on the outcome until the user confirms you have reached shared understanding.