research-grill

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Interviews a researcher in rounds until an idea, design, or draft has no unexamined decision — numbered questions, each with why it matters and a recommended answer, facts looked up rather than asked, and settled decisions written to a file. Stages are idea (topic or hunch to a falsifiable question and contribution claim), design (estimand, identification, sample and power, measurement, analysis plan, pre-registration, venue), and defend (reviewer objections to a finished design or draft). Use when the user says "grill me", asks to stress-test or poke holes in an idea, design, or plan, asks what they are assuming, or brings an idea that is not yet a design. --plan grills software or process plans.