From fde4cd58cf9d53e6fc287c445f33253645364311 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matt Pocock Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2026 10:01:22 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] feat(batch-grill-me): granular fact-finding, don't block the round MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Fire fact-finding to a sub-agent and treat a running exploration as an unsettled prerequisite, so only the downstream questions wait — the rest of the frontier is asked now, instead of the whole next round blocking behind one lookup. Phrase throughout in terms of the user. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) --- skills/in-progress/batch-grill-me/SKILL.md | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/skills/in-progress/batch-grill-me/SKILL.md b/skills/in-progress/batch-grill-me/SKILL.md index 873603f..4dbf90d 100644 --- a/skills/in-progress/batch-grill-me/SKILL.md +++ b/skills/in-progress/batch-grill-me/SKILL.md @@ -4,12 +4,12 @@ description: A relentless interview that asks every frontier question at once, r disable-model-invocation: true --- -Interview me relentlessly until we reach a shared understanding. Map this as a **design tree**: every decision branches into the decisions that hang off it. +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 my 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 round I answer 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. -If a *fact* can be found by exploring the environment (filesystem, tools, etc.), look it up rather than asking me. The *decisions* are mine — put each to me 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 I confirm we have reached a shared understanding. +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.