[bhagyamudgal]

The grill-me skill (skills/grill-me/SKILL.md, which interviews me about a plan one decision at a time) listed its decisions straight from the plan text and only checked the plan's facts against the code after every decision was settled. A question could rest on a renamed function or a file that no longer exists, and I would answer it anyway, then find out in the verification pass that the answer was built on a wrong premise. Now the skill reads the code before it lists decisions and again before each question, so questions and their recommended options come from what the code actually says.

What changed

• Before the first question, grill-me reads the code the plan touches, leaves out any decision the code already settles, and names the file:line that settled it.
• Before each question, it reads the files and symbols that question rests on. If the code answers it, the answer is recorded with a file:line and no question is asked. Otherwise the options and the recommendation are built from what it read and cited in the question's context line, or the context line says no code bears on the decision.

The end-of-session verification pass stays. It still covers plan claims no question touched, such as CI job names and commands.

How to verify

• python3 tools/verify_skills.py ./skills exits 0 and lists grill-me among the installable skills.
• python3 -m unittest discover -s tools/eval ran 282 tests, all passing.
• The skill's frontmatter is unchanged, so when it triggers is unchanged.

This is skill prose only, so there is no type-check, build, or browser QA. I have not yet run a real grill session with the new rules. That happens once the live copy in ~/.agents/skills/grill-me is synced after merge.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Updated guidance for identifying open decisions to account for relevant code and cite where decisions are resolved.
  • Clarified that questions should reflect inspected code, include relevant citations, or note when no code addresses the decision.

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The grilling instructions now require reading touched code before listing open decisions. They also require citations for code-resolved answers and relevant code context for unresolved questions.

Changes: Grilling instructions

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Code inspection and question grounding skills/grill-me/SKILL.md	The first-question procedure now checks touched code and omits decisions settled by code, with a file:line citation. Questions now include relevant code citations, or state when no code bears on the decision. Code-resolved answers are recorded with citations instead of being asked.

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Change: Feature

Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review a957c

The new rules can make the grilling skill treat the code's current behavior as the answer to a question about changing it, so some planned changes would not be questioned. This is a prose-only change with a small, clear fix, so it should be tightened before merge.

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The title names the main change: the grill-me skill now checks the code before asking each question. The raw summary confirms the SKILL.md edits require reading touched code before listing decisions and before each question, and citing settling file:line references. The title is concise, specific, and follows the conventional commit style.

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_{A rabbit reads the code with care,
Then cites the lines that answer there.
Open choices wait their turn,
Unsettled questions get a cite to earn.
The grilling guide is clear and fair.}

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Review comments at @skills/grill-me/SKILL.md:
- Line 25: Update the decision-screening and question-grounding guidance in
SKILL.md so code-settled decisions are skipped only when the plan does not
propose changing the behavior. When the plan does propose a change, keep the
decision open and build its options and recommendation from the code context,
citing relevant file and line information.

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PR Review: #114

✅ approve | No findings
Senior engineer approval: ✅ Yes, The two line change implements the stated grounding goal with no new defect at this commit.

Goal: grill-me skill reads the code the plan touches before listing decisions and before each question, dropping code-settled decisions and grounding options in code citations.
Summary: This change grounds grill-me in code reads before the decision list and before each question, with file:line citations. The prior CodeRabbit scope concern is already tracked on its own thread and its fix lives in a newer commit outside this pinned review, so no new thread is opened here.

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[bhagyamudgal]

PR Review: #114

✅ approve | No findings
Senior engineer approval: ✅ Yes, The two qualifying clauses implement the requested scope fix with no new defect at this commit.

Goal: grill-me reads the code the plan touches before listing decisions and before each question, skipping only code-settled decisions the plan leaves alone and grounding options in code citations.
Summary: This round narrows both skip rules so a code-settled decision is skipped only when the plan does not propose changing that behavior, which is exactly what the prior CodeRabbit thread asked for. Both bullets now carry the same qualifier and the verification pass still covers plan claims no question touches.

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