Grilling

SkillMedia

Interview the user relentlessly about a plan or design. Use when the user wants to stress-test a plan before building, or uses any grill trigger phrases.

Then ask your AI: use the Grilling skill

Details

Instructions available. Your AI can read the instructions. Execution depends on the setup they require.

Add it as a step in a pipeline you build on Ahel, or connect Ahel to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex and ask your AI to use it.

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by stolinski/s-stack in skills/grilling/SKILL.md and read by Ahel’s review.

Interview the user relentlessly about every aspect of a plan until you reach shared understanding. Walk down each branch of the design tree, resolving dependencies between decisions one by one.

Core Rules

  • Ask one question at a time, then wait for feedback before continuing.
  • Attach a recommended answer to each question so the user can accept, reject, or correct it quickly.
  • Treat the user's correction as the new truth immediately. Do not defend the earlier recommendation or drift back to it later.
  • If a question can be answered by exploring files, docs, or code, explore instead of asking.
  • Stop when the decision tree has enough load-bearing structure to produce the next artifact.

Question Shape

Use this shape for each turn:

Question: [one consequential decision]

Recommended answer: [your best answer, with a brief reason]

Avoid

  • Asking multiple questions at once.
  • Turning incidental detail into ceremony.
  • Continuing after the remaining questions no longer change the artifact.
  • Treating your recommendation as authoritative after the user corrects it.

Signals

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Last commit
Jul 2026
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Key
grilling-stolinski
Source
github.com/stolinski/s-stack