From 86cba45f4244b2545112d13e77ba82eb2bfad325 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: remote-box Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2026 20:45:25 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Remove em-dashes from grilling skill Replaces em-dash punctuation in SKILL.md with colons and semicolons for plain-text consistency. --- skills/productivity/grilling/SKILL.md | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/skills/productivity/grilling/SKILL.md b/skills/productivity/grilling/SKILL.md index 95bd01e..1c2bb7b 100644 --- a/skills/productivity/grilling/SKILL.md +++ b/skills/productivity/grilling/SKILL.md @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ description: Grill the user relentlessly about a plan, decision, or idea. Use wh Interview the user relentlessly until you reach a shared understanding. Map this as a **design tree**: every decision branches into the decisions that hang off it. -Work the tree in **rounds**. The **frontier** is every decision whose prerequisites are already settled — the questions you can ask _now_ without guessing at answers you haven't heard yet. Ask the whole frontier in one round: number each question and give your recommended answer. Then wait for the user's answers before the next round. +Work the tree in **rounds**. The **frontier** is every decision whose prerequisites are already settled: the questions you can ask _now_ without guessing at answers you haven't heard yet. Ask the whole frontier in one round: number each question and give your recommended answer. Then wait for the user's answers before the next round. Each question should be formatted like so: @@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ Each question should be formatted like so: ➡️ ``` -Each round the user answers reshapes the tree — settled decisions push the frontier outward and unblock questions that depended on them. Recompute the frontier and ask the next round. A question whose answer depends on another question still open in this round belongs to a _later_ round, not this one. +Each round the user answers reshapes the tree: settled decisions push the frontier outward and unblock questions that depended on them. Recompute the frontier and ask the next round. A question whose answer depends on another question still open in this round belongs to a _later_ round, not this one. -Finding _facts_ is your job, never the user's. When a frontier question needs a fact from the environment (filesystem, tools, etc.), dispatch a sub-agent to find it — don't ask the user for anything you could look up yourself. Don't block on it: a running exploration is an unsettled prerequisite, so only the questions downstream of it wait for the sub-agent to report — ask the rest of the frontier now. The _decisions_ are the user's — put each to them and wait. +Finding _facts_ is your job, never the user's. When a frontier question needs a fact from the environment (filesystem, tools, etc.), dispatch a sub-agent to find it; don't ask the user for anything you could look up yourself. Don't block on it: a running exploration is an unsettled prerequisite, so only the questions downstream of it wait for the sub-agent to report; ask the rest of the frontier now. The _decisions_ are the user's: put each to them and wait. The session is done when the frontier is empty: every branch of the design tree visited, nothing left silently assumed. Do not act on it until the user confirms you have reached a shared understanding. From d419977fe07d9e1607d3523f3579310bbb076b93 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: remote-box Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2026 20:50:05 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] chore: add changeset for grilling em-dash removal --- .changeset/grilling-remove-em-dashes.md | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) create mode 100644 .changeset/grilling-remove-em-dashes.md diff --git a/.changeset/grilling-remove-em-dashes.md b/.changeset/grilling-remove-em-dashes.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6cd562f --- /dev/null +++ b/.changeset/grilling-remove-em-dashes.md @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +--- +"mattpocock-skills": patch +--- + +grilling: remove em-dashes from `SKILL.md`, replacing them with colons and semicolons so the instructions read as plain text.