Frank
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Rewritten per grilling-on-grilling (2026-10-18, all branches settled via ask rounds): ask tool is the default round vehicle (one artefact per question, recommended:0 = bare-yes semantics, hybrid boundary ask-default / prose-exception); todo as visible decision tree (phase=branch, blocked reasons) + durable local://grilling-state.md ledger surviving the Esc-aborts-the-run path; scout=environment facts (spawn-before-ask, exclusive concurrency), web_search=world facts, inline=cheap lookups; completion gate = summary + one closing ask, then distilled decisions land in omp-docs/log.md via branch -> PR. Absorbs managed skill one-decision-per-ask-question (Frank's choice; reworded: ideas heavily encouraged via own atomic question, ban is on smuggling into option text only). Managed skill deleted here; heartbeat drops it from the live tree.
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name: grilling
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description: Grill the user relentlessly about a plan, decision, or idea. Use when the user wants to stress-test their thinking, or uses any 'grill' trigger phrases.
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> **Authored override.** Extracted 2026-10-18 from `mattpocock/skills` (identical to upstream at extraction) into the command-center repo so Frank can customize it. Removed from the `skills` CLI global store (`~/.agents/.skill-lock.json` pruned) so `skills update -g` never resurrects a duplicate. omp-aware redesign same day; absorbed the `one-decision-per-ask-question` managed skill. Edits to this file are repo prose: branch → PR → Frank OK.
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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.
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Work the tree in **rounds**. The **frontier** is every decision whose prerequisites are already settled. A question whose answer depends on an unsettled fact or another open question belongs to a _later_ round, not this one. Ask the whole frontier in one round, then wait.
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## The round: `ask` is the default vehicle
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Every frontier decision that fits 2–5 options goes through the `ask` tool - one question per decision, `recommended: 0` (the recommended answer is always option 0; the user's single Enter is the bare "yes" that accepts it). Prose in chat is the exception, reserved for genuinely open narrative ("walk me through the deploy flow") - never as buttons.
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Per-question discipline (absorbed law, was the `one-decision-per-ask-question` managed skill):
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- One question decides exactly **one artefact**. Name it before sending; two names → split. A round may carry many single-artefact questions; a question may not.
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- Shared plumbing is not grounds for merging: two products sharing an endpoint, service, or build step are still two questions.
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- Ideas are **heavily encouraged** - the interviewer's own idea gets its own atomic question like any other. What is banned is smuggling an unasked-for artefact into another question's option text ("...and also X" in a label or preview).
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- Option wording derives from the user's stated goal, never from your scaffolding (todo text, table rows, runbook headings).
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- `multi: true` for pick-many; `preview` for code/config evidence (renders as markdown); `header` for the branch chip.
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Fallback: a harness without `ask` degrades to the classic text round - `❓ **Q1** - **title**: body` / `➡️ recommendation`, worded so a bare "yes" accepts every recommendation.
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Dialog mechanics you must respect: `ask` is exclusive - spawn scouts **before** the `ask` call in the same message or they stall behind the dialog. The dialog cannot be interrupted by arriving facts; results land between rounds. Esc **aborts the whole run** with no post-cancel turn - the durable ledger is the safety net. Questions are spoken aloud when speech is enabled.
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## The ledger: `todo` is the tree, `local://` is the save-file
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- `todo`: **phase = design-tree branch**, task text = the decision (`"<decision> - via: <parent>"` carries the edge; todo has no edges). `pending` = frontier, `block` with a one-line reason = waiting on a fact or an open decision (the HUD stays visible while anything is blocked), `done` = settled. `unblock` the moment its prerequisite settles.
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- `write local://grilling-state.md` at the end of **every round**: the tree with each decision's verdict + one-line rationale. This is the only thing that survives an Esc-abort - keep it current.
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## Facts are yours; decisions are the user's
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- Environment facts (filesystem, repo, live config): `task` + `scout`, one batch, one scout per fact-cluster; on this box at most 3 run at once, so cluster rather than spray.
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- Outside-world facts: call `web_search` directly - no spawn hop.
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- Cheap lookups: `read`/`grep` inline.
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- Only the main session may ask; every spawn carries the exact facts to return.
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## Completion
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Frontier empty and nothing blocked → write the settled-decisions summary from the ledger, then **one closing `ask`**: "Shared understanding reached - proceed?" Nothing executes before that yes. After it: distill the settled decisions into an `omp-docs/log.md` work-log entry through the normal branch → PR path, and refresh the ledger file to final form.
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