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Grill the user relentlessly about a plan, decision, or idea. Use when the user wants to stress-test their thinking, asks to be grilled, or another skill needs the interview primitive.
shipshitdev/skills · ★ 35 · Code & Development · score 74
Install: claude install-skill shipshitdev/skills
# Grilling Interview the user relentlessly until every branch of the **design tree** is resolved. This is the reusable interview primitive. Orchestrators (`interview`, `shape`) invoke it; they own grounding, artifacts, and routing. ## Contract Inputs: - A plan, decision, idea, or design question - Optional repo or docs context already loaded by the calling skill Outputs: - Settled decisions across the design tree - Remaining open questions only when a fact-finding sub-agent is still running Creates/Modifies: - None. Calling skills persist briefs, glossaries, or issues. External Side Effects: - Read-only lookups to settle facts. No tracker writes, no code edits. Confirmation Required: - Before acting on the settled tree. Stop at a shared understanding; do not implement. Delegates To: - None. Fact-finding may dispatch a read-only exploration sub-agent. ## Design tree Map the topic as a **design tree**: every decision branches into the decisions that hang off it. The **frontier** is every decision whose prerequisites are already settled — the questions that can be asked *now* without guessing at answers not yet heard. Work the tree in **rounds**. Ask the whole frontier in one round. Wait for answers before the next round. ## Round format Number each frontier question. Recommend an answer so the user can accept it in a word. ```markdown **Q1 — <question title>**: <question body, including choices when they exist> Recommended: <recommended answer> ``` A ques