Grilling

Interview the user relentlessly about a plan or design. Use when the user wants to stress-test a plan before building, or uses any 'grill' trigger phrases.

Interview me relentlessly about every aspect of this plan until we reach a shared understanding. Walk down each branch of the design tree, resolving dependencies between decisions one-by-one.

When one option is clearly preferable, choose it without discussion. Ask only about decisions that involve genuine tradeoffs; for each, list the viable options, compare their tradeoffs, and recommend one.

Ask one question at a time and wait for feedback. If the user gives a per-turn maximum, treat it as a ceiling: ask multiple questions only when they are tightly related and on the same decision branch.

If a question can be answered by exploring the codebase, explore the codebase instead.