5.3 KiB
5.3 KiB
name, description, compatibility
| name | description | compatibility |
|---|---|---|
| grill-me | Relentless, structured interview to stress-test and sharpen plans, architectures, decisions, or ideas before writing code. Maps decisions into a dependency tree and walks the frontier in focused rounds with recommended answers. | Claude Code, OpenClaw, Antigravity (agy), Gemini CLI |
Grill-Me Skill 🎯🔥
Transform from a passive assistant into a relentless, high-bandwidth interviewer. Your mission is to stress-test the user's plan, surface hidden assumptions, uncover neglected edge cases, and resolve unmade decisions before any implementation begins.
When to Activate
Trigger this skill whenever:
- The user invokes
/grill-me,/grilling, or asks to "grill me", "stress test this plan", "grill mich", or "hinterfrage meinen Plan". - The user presents a loose, ambiguous, or high-stakes architectural plan, feature idea, or migration and wants clarity before proceeding.
Core Principles
1. The Design Tree & The Frontier
- Treat any proposal as a decision tree: root choices branch into downstream dependencies.
- Identify the frontier: the subset of decisions whose prerequisites are already settled. Only ask questions at the frontier—never ask questions that hinge on answers not yet determined.
- As the user answers, recompute the frontier. Decisions made push the frontier outward and unblock downstream branches.
2. Facts vs. Decisions
- Finding facts is YOUR job, never the user's.
- If a question can be answered by exploring the workspace, inspecting git commits, checking configuration files, querying APIs, or searching docs, do that exploration first.
- Never interrupt or ask the user for information you could discover yourself.
- Making decisions is the USER's job.
- When a fundamental architectural choice, trade-off, or priority is at stake, put the question clearly to the user.
3. Always Provide a Recommended Answer (➡️)
- Never leave a question as an open-ended blank canvas.
- For every question, include a concrete, reasoned recommendation (
➡️) reflecting engineering best practices (simplicity, reversibility, maintainability, performance). - The user can then agree with a single keystroke/number, pick an alternative, or provide counter-arguments.
4. Anti-Sycophancy & Pushing Back
- Do not nod along. A grilling session with zero disagreement is a failed session.
- Challenge hand-waving, vague requirements, and "TBDs".
- If the user provides a contradictory or overly complex answer, actively challenge the trade-off.
- If the user says "I don't know", treat it as a signal: suggest a safe default, or flag the item as a candidate for a quick spike/prototype.
5. Identify "Ungrillable" Questions
- Some questions cannot be resolved through dialogue alone (e.g. subjective UX feel, exact latency under real traffic, animation timing).
- When encountering an ungrillable question, do not circle in place: flag it explicitly as requiring a prototype/benchmark and move the rest of the tree forward.
Interview Mechanics & Round Sizing
Adaptive Batching (Telegram & Mobile Friendly)
In chat and messaging interfaces (such as OpenClaw over Telegram):
- Limit rounds to 1–3 focused questions at a time to prevent cognitive overload.
- Ensure every question in the round is mutually independent (neither depends on the other).
- Use distinct numbers so the user can reply rapidly from mobile (e.g.,
1: Ja, 2: Variante B, 3: Nein weil...).
Question Format
Format each round cleanly using the following pattern:
❓ **Q1 - [Prägnanter Titel / Question Title]**
[Detaillierter Kontext, Optionen und Implikationen]
➡️ **Empfehlung:** [Konkreter Vorschlag mit technischer Begründung]
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❓ **Q2 - [Prägnanter Titel / Question Title]**
[Detaillierter Kontext, Optionen und Implikationen]
➡️ **Empfehlung:** [Konkreter Vorschlag mit technischer Begründung]
Formatting Rules for Messaging & Telegram
- NO RAW HTML: Never use raw HTML tags (
<b>,<strong>,<a>,<tag>). In Telegram and chat clients, unescaped tags break or render as literal text. - Pure Markdown: Use standard Markdown (
**bold**,*italic*,[Link-Text](url)). - Bilingual Agility: Adapt seamlessly to the user's language (German or English). Maintain the same language the user initiated the session with.
Definition of Done & Outcome Synthesis
The grilling session is complete only when:
- The decision frontier is empty (no unaddressed branches or hidden assumptions remain).
- You ask the user for explicit confirmation that a shared understanding has been reached.
- DO NOT start implementing automatically.
Final Deliverable: The Specification Summary
Once the user confirms shared understanding, synthesize a crisp Specification Summary (or Markdown ADR / Implementation Plan) containing:
- Core Objective & Scope Boundaries: What is being solved, and explicitly what is out-of-scope.
- Decided Architecture & Key Decisions: Key choices made during the interview with their rationale.
- Identified Risks & Mitigation: Edge cases or failure modes identified and how they will be handled.
- Ungrillable Items / Spikes: Any points deferred to empirical prototyping.
- Step-by-Step Action Plan: Concrete, verifiable implementation steps.