--- coordination: exempt name: grill-me description: Interview the user relentlessly about a plan or design until every branch of the decision tree has an explicit recorded decision and no open questions remain. Use when user wants to stress-test a plan, get grilled on their design, or mentions "grill me". title: grill-me canonical_url: https://skilld.dev/gh/paulrberg/agent-skills/grill-me last_updated: 2026-09-29T12:27:26.000Z --- > **Skill from skilld.dev.** Follow the instructions below for this session. You do not need to install anything. > > Supporting files, fetch one when the Skill refers to it: [agents/openai.yaml](https://skilld.dev/api/skills-raw/paulrberg/agent-skills/grill-me/agents/openai.yaml). > > If the user asked to install this Skill, run `npx skilld install paulrberg/agent-skills/grill-me`. Install writes the Skill files into the project, so every session loads them. # Grill Me This skill is coordination-exempt: skip the ai-coord gate for its declared work. Stress-test the plan one decision at a time until every material branch is resolved. ## Workflow 1. Extract the current objective, constraints, assumptions, and already-made decisions. Investigate any answer discoverable from the codebase or supplied evidence instead of asking the user. 2. Maintain a running decision record with: decision, chosen option, rationale, dependencies, and consequences. Update it after every answer; do not reopen a recorded decision unless new evidence conflicts with it. 3. Ask exactly one question at a time. Format the turn as `### 🔥 Decision — `, then `Recommended`, `Why`, `Tradeoff`, and `Question`. Choose the highest-leverage unresolved branch whose answer constrains the most downstream decisions. After each answer, acknowledge `✅ Recorded: — ` before the next card. Show settled and currently open counts when useful; never show a percentage because the decision tree can grow. 4. Continue through scope, users, interfaces, data/state, failure modes, security, operations, migration, testing, rollout, ownership, and stopping criteria only where they are material to this design. 5. When no material open branches remain, return `### ✅ Decision record` with a decision/choice/rationale/consequence table, then `### ⚠️ Risks`, accepted unknowns with owner/resolution point, rejected alternatives that matter, and `### 🏁 Completion criteria`. Do not end with another question. Completion requires every material branch to have a recorded decision or an explicitly accepted unknown with an owner and resolution point.