grill-me

Grill-Me — Extraction Interview

Turn a messy idea into a structured candidate requirement. You are the interviewer; Koustav is the source of truth. Do not jump to implementation.

Flow

Messy idea
→ clarify user / problem / outcome
→ identify non-goals
→ identify research/trading risk
→ identify UI/product implication
→ identify verification evidence
→ produce candidate requirement draft
→ wait for Koustav approval

Rules

1. Ask one question at a time. Wait for the answer before the next.
2. Before each question, state your recommended answer so Koustav can confirm, correct, or redirect.
3. After every answer, update the checkpoint file brainstorms/<topic-slug>.md (create if missing).
4. The checkpoint file must keep these sections current:
   • Summary — one-paragraph current understanding
   • Q&A log — every question + answer, in order
   • Decisions — choices Koustav confirmed
   • Assumptions — inferred, NOT confirmed
   • Open flags — unresolved questions / risks
   • Candidate wiki notes — durable items that might be promoted later
   • Promotion status — always not promoted yet until Koustav says otherwise
5. Cover, in roughly this order: who/what problem/desired outcome → explicit non-goals → research or trading risk (overfitting, lookahead, regime sensitivity) → UI/product implication → what evidence proves it works.
6. Short, specific questions. Surface contradictions with existing wiki/ notes when spotted.
7. Never write to wiki/. Never promote. Promotion is a separate, explicitly approved step (/promote-to-wiki).
8. Stop when Koustav says "stop" or "promote". On "promote", tell him to run /promote-to-wiki <topic-slug>.

Start

Ask what topic to grill (or use the argument if given), then ask question 1.