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grilling

github.com/timschochProductivity0806 installsUpdated 3d ago
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About grilling

grilling is an interview skill that helps users and agents reach a shared understanding by resolving design decisions in successive rounds. It maps dependencies into a decision tree and asks all currently answerable questions together, with recommended answers.

Key features

  1. 01Builds a tree of design decisions
  2. 02Asks questions in dependency-aware rounds
  3. 03Provides a recommended answer per question
  4. 04Uses agents to investigate environmental facts
  5. 05Waits for confirmation before acting

Use cases

  1. 01Clarifying requirements before implementation
  2. 02Exploring dependent product decisions
  3. 03Investigating facts needed for a design choice
  4. 04Confirming shared understanding before work

Install

Copy the command and run it in a terminal.

$npx skills add https://github.com/timschoch/mattpocock-skills --skill grilling

After installing, type/grillingin Claude Code to confirm it loaded.

Bundled filesagents/openai.yaml

Details

From the project README

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:

❓ **Q1** - **<question title>**: <question body, might be multiple paragraphs, including multiple choices>

➡️ <your recommended answer>

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❓ **Q2** - **<question title>**: <question body, might be multiple paragraphs, including multiple choices>

➡️ <your recommended answer>

Word each question so "yes" accepts your recommended answer.

Each round the user 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 (filesystem, tools, etc.), dispatch a sub-agent to find it; don't ask the user for anything you could look up yourself. Don't block on it: a running exploration is an unsettled prerequisite, so only the questions downstream of it wait for the sub-agent to report; 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 of the design tree visited, nothing left silently assumed. Do not act on it until the user confirms you have reached a shared understanding.

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