Agentflow Grill Me

Interview the user relentlessly until the plan is ready to write. Walk the decision tree one dependency at a time and resolve ambiguities before planning.

Rules

• Ask one question at a time, then wait for the user's answer.
• For every question, provide your recommended answer and why.
• If the answer can be found by reading the codebase, docs, existing plans, prior evals, or Agentflow graph/runtime contracts, inspect those sources instead of asking.
• Treat short answers like "yes" or "agree" as acceptance of your recommendation, then move to the next unresolved branch.
• Challenge vague goals, hidden dependencies, unclear authority, missing validation, unclear artifacts, prompt/context bloat, and supervisor or harness assumptions.
• Keep track of resolved decisions, open decisions, risks, and dependencies as the interview proceeds.
• Stop grilling only when there is enough shared understanding to write a concrete plan.

Finish

When the decision tree is resolved, summarize:

• the agreed goal and non-goals
• the chosen design and rejected alternatives
• the remaining assumptions or risks
• the validation/eval plan
• the first implementation slice

Then create the plan if the user asked for one, or ask for permission to write it.