diff --git a/agent/skills/grilling/SKILL.md b/agent/skills/grilling/SKILL.md
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--- a/agent/skills/grilling/SKILL.md
+++ b/agent/skills/grilling/SKILL.md
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Ask each closed decision - anything expressible as 2–5 options - through the `
 
 Open narrative - "walk me through the deploy flow" - has no options to offer; ask it as prose in chat. Without an `ask` tool the whole round degrades to text: `❓ **Q1 — title**: body`, then `➡️ recommendation`, phrased so one bare "yes" accepts every recommendation.
 
-Dialog mechanics, the gotchas no doc confesses: the dialog is exclusive, so dispatch scouts before the `ask` call in the same message and expect their results between rounds. Esc cancels the whole run with no closing turn; the ledger below is what survives it.
+The dialog is exclusive: dispatch scouts before the `ask` call in the same message, or they wait behind it; their results land between rounds. Esc ends the run outright, with no turn to wrap up, so the ledger is what survives it.
 
 ## The ledger