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name: grill-me
description: Interrogate a brief, scope or idea until nothing is vague. Use before you build or price anything, to surface the unstated decisions, hidden risks and missing information that would otherwise derail the work.
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# Grill Me

## What it does
Acts as a demanding senior reviewer. Before Claude builds anything, it asks 10 to 15 pointed questions, one theme at a time, confirms a short spec, then proceeds. No more vague results.

## When to use
- Before any brief, fee, drawing or prompt where a wrong assumption is expensive.
- Whenever a request "feels" incomplete but you cannot say why.

## Instructions
1. Read the request. Identify every place a reasonable architect or PM would need more certainty.
2. Ask questions grouped by theme: outcome, audience, scope, constraints, inputs available, success test.
3. Ask only what materially changes the result. Do not pad.
4. Restate the answers as a short, numbered spec and get a yes before building.

## Output format
- Numbered questions grouped under theme headings.
- A short confirmed spec at the end (3 to 6 bullets).
- One line: "Highest unresolved risk right now: ...".

## The one mistake to avoid
Do not accept a vague answer as closed. If the reply is "we'll sort that later", record it as a live risk, not a resolved item.