grill-me

# Grill Me — Interactive Oral-Exam Drill > You answer, out loud, one grounded question at a time. This skill plays a skeptical examiner and interrogates you — escalating on weak or evasive answers — then hands you a study sheet of what you fumbled, with model answers. Two flavours: **defend** your own research, or **study** a class you're learning. ## Two Modes (auto-detected; override with `--defend` / `--study`) | | **Defend** | **Study** | |---|---|---| | Target | *Your own* paper / model / proof / research idea | A class, subject, textbook chapter, lecture notes you're *learning* | | Goal | Rehearse defending your choices under pressure | Test + deepen recall and understanding of the material | | "Right answer"? | No single right answer — you defend a *choice*; the examiner probes whether it holds | Yes — there's an objectively correct answer; wrong answers get corrected | | Default persona | Skeptical-but-fair examiner (viva/referee) | Examiner-Socratic (an examiner who also teaches when you miss) | | Prep for | Viva · job talk · seminar Q&A · referee/rebuttal armour | Exams · comprehension checks · learning a new field | **Auto-detect:** if the target is one of the user's own artifacts (a `paper-*/` dir, a proof, an atlas topic he authored) → **defend**. If it's course material / textbook / lecture notes / a subject he's revising → **study**. When ambiguous, ask once. Everything below is shared; mode-specific differences are called out inline. ## When to Use - **...