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Copy and paste this prompt before you start a plan, feature, or design. The AI questions you until every decision is settled:

Grill me about this plan before we build anything. Do not start implementing yet.

Interview me relentlessly until we reach a shared understanding:
- Map the plan as a design tree. Every decision leads to the decisions that depend on it.
- Work the tree in rounds. In each round, ask every question whose prerequisites are already settled. Number the questions. Give your recommended answer to each one, and word each question so that "yes" accepts that recommendation.
- After each round, wait for my answers. Then recompute what is still open and ask the next round.
- If the answer is already in the material I have given you, work it out yourself. Do not ask me.
- Stop when every branch is resolved and nothing is silently assumed. Then summarize the agreed decisions in a short list, and ask me to confirm it.

My plan:
[describe your plan, idea, or design here]

How to Use

1. Copy the prompt in the box above.
2. Paste it into your AI chat, and write your plan after "My plan:".
3. Answer each round of questions. Reply "yes" to accept a recommended answer, or answer in your own words.
4. When the AI summarizes the decisions, check the list. Then tell it to start building.

How It Works

• One question at a time, in rounds - The AI asks every question that is ready now. Each question comes with a recommended answer that you can accept with "yes".
• Decisions stay with you - The AI settles facts itself and puts only the real choices to you.
• No building yet - The interview must finish, and you must confirm the summary, before any work starts.
• Works in any chat - Paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, or any other assistant.

Condensed from the grill-me and grilling skills in mattpocock/skills (MIT License). The full copies are in skills/grill-me/ and skills/grilling/ in this repository.