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Auto-grill a plan, spec, or ticket by running Claude and Codex as interrogator/answerer pairs instead of interviewing the user. Two modes — relay (iterative back-and-forth between Claude and Codex) and parallel (two swapped streams merged into one spec). Produces a pre-chewed artifact where the user only reviews the result, not sits through the interview. Use this skill whenever the user says "cookoff", "pre-grill this", "have codex grill it", "dual grill", "grill this without me", "run grill-me with codex", "cross-examine this plan", or wants the ambiguity-resolution work done autonomously before they review. Also use when the user has a plan/spec/PRD that would normally go through max:grill-me but explicitly wants to skip being interviewed themselves. Supports `--to-tickets` to emit the grilled spec as Dahso Agent Tickets ready for `/go`, and `--to-tickets --go` to chain straight to `dahso:go` without a review pause.

Explore multiple radically different interface designs for a feature in parallel before committing to one. Uses parallel sub-agents to generate distinct approaches so you can compare tradeoffs rather than anchoring on the first idea. For UI/UX interface work specifically — not API interface design. Use when the user says "design-interface", "let's explore some designs for X", "what are the options for this screen", or before building any non-trivial UI.

Interview the user relentlessly about a plan, spec, or ticket until every branch of the decision tree is resolved. Produces a per-dimension ambiguity report (Goals / Acceptance / Boundaries / Alternatives / Assumptions) and an aggregate gate. Use this skill whenever the user is drafting a spec, proposing a design, debating an approach, or describing work to hand off — even if they don't say "grill me". Explicit triggers include "grill me", "stress-test this", "am I missing anything", "what are the risks", or any time a non-trivial plan is being finalized. Also invoked as a subroutine by max:write-prd Phase 5, max:tech-spec Phase 6, max:improve-codebase Phase 5, bugbook:flow Phase 2d, bugbook:prep Phase 3, and bugbook:ticket Phase 2d.

A grilling session that stress-tests a plan against the project's documented domain model — sharpens fuzzy terminology, challenges it against the existing glossary, cross-references it with the code, and updates documentation (CONTEXT.md, ADRs) inline as decisions crystallize. The domain-aware variant of grill-me — use this instead when the repo has (or should have) a CONTEXT.md glossary or docs/adr/ decision records. Triggers include "grill with docs", "stress-test this against our domain model", "does this match our language", "check this against our glossary", "grill this and update the docs", or any time a non-trivial plan needs to be reconciled with the project's documented decisions.

Compact the current conversation into a handoff document so a fresh agent can pick up the work without re-deriving context. Writes a self-contained brief to the OS temp directory — what's been done, what's left, key decisions, gotchas, and which skills to invoke next. Use when the user says "handoff", "write a handoff", "hand this off", "compact this for a new session", "summarize this for another agent", "I'm running low on context", or is about to start a fresh session on the same work. Takes an optional argument describing what the next session will focus on.