grill-melisted

# grill-me Interrogate a half-formed idea until its shape is clear enough to commit to. ## When To Use - An idea, plan, or decision is real enough to discuss but too vague to build. - A plan is about to be built and nobody has stated what would make it fail. - Someone asks to have their thinking stress-tested rather than summarized. Do not use this to review finished work, to write the plan itself, or where the decision is already made and only needs recording. ## Definitions Use these terms exactly. Do not substitute synonyms. - **design tree** - the decision structure for the topic. Every decision branches into the decisions that depend on it. - **frontier** - every decision whose prerequisites are already settled. These are the questions answerable now without guessing at answers not yet heard. - **round** - one batch of frontier questions, asked together, answered together. - **checkpoint** - the markdown file recording settled decisions, the question log, and open flags. - **pre-mortem** - the closing pass that imagines the idea shipped and failed. - **criterion** - one binary pass/fail statement produced by the pre-mortem. ## Procedure ### Step 1 - Establish the topic If the invocation includes a topic, use it. If the invocation is bare, ask what to grill, then continue. ### Step 2 - Create the checkpoint Derive a slug from the topic. Lowercase, hyphen-separated, at most four words. Ask where the checkpoint should go. If the user does not care, write `grill