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grill-the-brief
Use before building anything from a vague request — a feature, an app, an agent, an automation, a page. Trigger when the user says "build me X" without specifics, when a brief could be read two ways, or when the user asks to be challenged, interrogated, or pushed on requirements before code gets written.
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# Grill the Brief
Most rework comes from building the wrong thing confidently. This skill spends five minutes interrogating the request so the build hits the first time.
## Core Behavior
Ask questions before writing code — but only the questions whose answers change what gets built. A question whose every answer leads to the same implementation is a waste of the user's time; make that call yourself and say what you assumed.
Ask in one batch, not one at a time. Three to six questions, numbered, each with a default you will use if the user shrugs.
## What to Interrogate
Work down this list and pull only what is genuinely unresolved:
