grill-me

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Interview the user relentlessly about a plan or design until reaching shared understanding. Phase 2b gate of /development-lifecycle. Spawns 3 parallel reviewer hats (product/engineering/design) to stress-test the plan. Use when user wants to stress-test a plan, get grilled, or mentions "grill me".

malinskibeniamin By malinskibeniamin schedule Updated 6/11/2026

name: grill-me description: A relentless interview to sharpen a plan or design. disable-model-invocation: true

Grill Me

Repo/code changes: run /deslop before commit, push, PR, or merge. Phase 2b gate. No implementation until plan survive grilling.

Step 1: Interview

Run the /grilling skill: walk every branch of decision tree. Resolve dependencies one-by-one. Each question, give recommended answer. One at time.

If question answerable by exploring codebase, explore first.

Step 2: Three-Hat Fan-Out (parallel)

Once user present coherent plan, spawn three reviewers in parallel (single message, multiple Agent tool calls):

  • plan-product-hat: persona, pain, success metric, scope, reversibility, TTV
  • plan-engineering-hat: architecture, error paths, perf, security, test strategy, rollback
  • plan-design-hat: flow, a11y, copy, visual consistency, states (empty/loading/error)

Each emit {reviewer, status, findings[], must_answer[]} per findings-schema.md.

Step 3: Merge

Consolidate all must_answer questions into single list, deduped. Surface to user. User answer each. Plan updated inline.

Any reviewer return status: BLOCKED -> plan no advance until blocking finding addressed or user override.

Step 4: Approve

All hats return APPROVED or user override specific findings -> plan approved -> Phase 3 (Implement).

Skip Gate

Skip three-hat fan-out only if:

  • Trivial bug fix, AND
  • <3 tasks in plan, AND
  • No architectural / product / UX decisions

Else, fan-out mandatory. [ETHOS: Grill Before Build]

Install via CLI
npx skills add https://github.com/malinskibeniamin/skills --skill grill-me
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