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--- a/agent/skills/grilling/SKILL.md
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@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ description: Grill the user relentlessly about a plan, decision, or idea. Use wh
 
 # Grilling
 
-Interview the user relentlessly until nothing is silently assumed. The subject is a **design tree**: every decision branches into the decisions that hang off it.
+Interview the user relentlessly until nothing is silently assumed and you reach a shared understanding. Map this as a **design tree**: every decision branches into the decisions that hang off it.
 
 A decision is **frontier** when it can be asked now, without an answer you haven't heard yet. The interview is done when the frontier is empty: every branch of the tree visited.
 
@@ -36,11 +36,11 @@ Write `local://grilling-state.md` at the end of every round: the tree, each deci
 
 ## Facts are yours, decisions are theirs
 
-- Environment facts (filesystem, repo, live config): dispatch a **scout** per fact-cluster, batched into one `task` call, before the round's `ask`. Cluster tightly; spawns are the expensive route.
-- Outside-world facts: call `web_search` directly.
+- Environment facts (filesystem, repo, live config): dispatch a **scout** per fact-cluster, batched into one `task` call, before the round's `ask`. Cluster tightly; doing so keeps each scout more aware of possible adjacencies.
+- Outside-world facts: call `web_search` directly, do not delegate to a subagent.
 - Cheap lookups: `read`/`grep` inline.
 - The main session is where questions happen: every spawn carries the exact facts to return, and comes back into the next round.
 
-## Done
+## Definition of Done
 
 The frontier is empty and nothing sits blocked. Distil the ledger into a **brief**: one line per decision, verdict plus rationale, grouped by branch. Put it in chat, then one closing `ask`: "Proceed on this brief?" Nothing executes before that yes. After it, fold the brief into the project's knowledge base, or a log markdown file, wherever the project keeps its decisions.