Grill Me on Every Design Branch

Force Claude to interview you relentlessly on every branch of a feature's design tree before it writes a line of code.

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About this skill

name: grill-me-design-tree description: Force Claude to interview you relentlessly on every branch of a feature's design tree before it writes a line of code. Use when working on grill me on every design branch.

Grill Me on Every Design Branch

Loads a short directive that turns Claude into a design interviewer walking the design tree, resolving one dependency at a time. Explores the codebase when a question can be answered by code, so questions stay grounded in reality. Sessions typically produce 30 to 50 targeted questions and end with a genuinely shared understanding of the feature. Use before starting any non-trivial feature or refactor.

What you get

Running interview transcript
Fully resolved design tree
Codebase-grounded understanding doc
Numbered unanswered branches
Ready-to-hand-off spec header
Followup PRD stub

Customize your output

Feature description: free text
Existing research notes: paste or file
Repo path: dir
Depth cap on branches: 3, 5, 8
Language or stack: TypeScript, Swift, Python, Rust, Go, other
Interview tone: senior peer, socratic

Example output

'16 sequential questions covering document location, UI layout, mode gating, life cycle, edit tool shape, and error handling. Green light to draft the PRD.'

Best for

Engineers, tech leads, PMs pairing with Claude Code on non-trivial features.

Note: Skill body is intentionally tiny. Works best inside plan mode. High confidence.

Source: Ian Nuttall · https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJyuu6zlQCg Category: Engineering · Priority: P4

SKILL.md preview

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name: grill-me-design-tree
description: Force Claude to interview you relentlessly on every branch of a feature's design tree before it writes a line of code. Use when working on grill me on every design branch.
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# Grill Me on Every Design Branch

Loads a short directive that turns Claude into a design interviewer walking the design tree, resolving one dependency at a time. Explores the codebase when a question can be answered by code, so questions stay grounded in reality. Sessions typically produce 30 to 50 targeted questions and end with a genuinely shared understanding of the feature. Use before starting any non-trivial feature or refactor.

## What you get

- Running interview transcript
- Fully resolved design tree
- Codebase-grounded understanding doc
- N...