grill-me — Deep Interrogation

• Trigger: /grill-me or keywords "grill me", "challenge my plan", "stress-test"
• Best for: Design review, requirement clarification, decision validation
• Not for: Already-finalized decisions, simple yes/no questions

Overview

grill-me relentlessly interrogates your plan or design, resolving each branch of the decision tree until every question has a clear answer. Its goal: find blind spots and edge cases you haven't considered.

Trigger Conditions

grill-me auto-triggers when you:

• Mention "grill me", "challenge my plan"
• Want to validate completeness before a key decision
• Use the /grill-me command

Examples

Example 1: Architecture Review

/grill-me Our microservice split: user service, order service, payment service, notification service

Claude interrogates:

• "How is data consistency guaranteed between order and payment services? Saga or 2PC?"
• "What's the availability requirement for notifications? Does it block the core flow if down?"
• "Service discovery approach? Consul or K8s DNS?"
• "Cross-service auth/authz strategy?"
• ...

Each answer leads to deeper follow-ups.

Example 2: Requirement Review

/grill-me We need a permission system with RBAC, admin-configurable in the dashboard

Example 3: Tech Choice

/grill-me I plan to use MongoDB as primary DB because the schema changes often

Example 4: Release Plan

/grill-me Here's our canary release plan: 5% traffic for 1 hour, then full rollout

Interrogation Dimensions

Dimension	Focus
Completeness	Any missing scenarios?
Edge Cases	What happens at the limits?
Consistency	Data and state consistency?
Availability	What if component X fails?
Security	Who has access? How is it verified?
Cost/Complexity	What's the real cost of this approach?

Notes

• The goal is to help you think, not to shoot down your plan
• If a question doesn't apply, just say "not applicable" to skip
• You don't need to answer everything on the spot — "I need to check" is valid
• Grilling continues until all key decision points are covered
• Not suited for quick decisions under time pressure

Related Skills

• grill-with-docs — Grill against project documentation
• prototype — Prototype to validate after grilling
• to-prd — Generate PRD after grilling is complete