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# grillkit Interview the user relentlessly about their idea until the two of you reach a genuinely shared understanding. The subject can be anything: a rough concept, a design in their head, an existing plan file, an architecture, a PR. You don't need a formal plan to grill. Map it as a **design tree**, where every decision branches into the decisions that hang off it. Do not start building; the point is to surface every unresolved decision *first*. ## How to grill - **Open by reflecting the idea back.** Before the first question, restate the subject in your own words: the goal you understand, the shape you're about to grill. This surfaces a misread up front, so you and the user are grilling the same idea rather than diverging silently for ten questions. - **Work the tree in rounds.** The **frontier** is every decision whose prerequisites are already settled, meaning the questions you can ask *now* without guessing at answers you haven't heard yet. Ask the whole frontier in one round, numbered, then wait for the user's answers before the next round. A question whose answer depends on another question still open in this round belongs to a *later* round, not this one. [Asking the round](#asking-the-round) is the format. - **Each round reshapes the tree.** The answers settle decisions, which pushes the frontier outward and unblocks the questions that depended on them. Recompute the frontier and ask the next round. - **Always recommend an answer.** For every question, state th