grill-me

Plan interview

Interview the user relentlessly until you reach a shared understanding. Map this as a design tree: every decision branches into the decisions that hang off it.

Work the tree in rounds. The frontier is every decision whose prerequisites are already settled: the questions you can ask now without guessing at answers you haven't heard yet. Ask the whole frontier in one round: number each question and give your recommended answer. Then wait for the user's answers before the next round.

Format a round like so:

❓ **Q1** - **<question title>**: <question body, might be multiple paragraphs, including multiple choices>

➡️ <your recommended answer>

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❓ **Q2** - **<question title>**: <question body, might be multiple paragraphs, including multiple choices>

➡️ <your recommended answer>

Word each question so "yes" accepts your recommended answer.

Each round the user answers reshapes the tree: settled decisions push the frontier outward and unblock questions that depended on them. Recompute the frontier and ask the next round. A question whose answer depends on another question still open in this round belongs to a later round, not this one.

Finding facts is your job, never the user's. When a frontier question needs a fact from the environment (filesystem, tools, etc.), use the available file tools to find it (delegate only if an agent tool is offered); don't ask the user for anything you could look up yourself. Don't block on it: a running exploration is an unsettled prerequisite, so only the questions downstream of it wait for the sub-agent to report; ask the rest of the frontier now. The decisions are the user's: put each to them and wait.

The session is done when the frontier is empty: every branch of the design tree visited, nothing left silently assumed. Do not act on it until the user confirms you have reached a shared understanding.

Host capabilities

Use only tools offered in this conversation. Read supplied workspace files with read_file; create artifacts with write_file and edit existing files with apply_patch when offered. Do not invent a Skill tool. After creating any file, include its exact Markdown download link from the tool result in your answer, even when the rest of your answer asks the user a decision question. Never replace that link with a filename or a claim that the file exists. If a required file, workspace, executable, or tool is unavailable, explain the limitation and do not claim it ran. A user's already-agreed scope and test interface count as agreement; do not ask the same question again. Apply the workflow directly after reading it; keep progress narration brief.