grill-with-docs

Grill With Docs

Overview

Grill a plan, but grounded in the workspace's actual accumulated knowledge instead of a per-repo glossary file. Pull the domain glossary and prior decisions from basic-memory (the semantic D: vault) and the event-ledger, challenge the plan against them, and write every resolved decision back into those same stores.

This beats grilling against a repo-local CONTEXT.md / docs/adr/ set: the stores are cross-project, semantic, always current, and the SessionStart hook replays the ledger after compaction — so the grounding and the decisions both survive context loss.

This is a layer, not a new grill

Do not re-implement the questioning loop. Run the existing grill for the cadence, then add the store-awareness on top:

• Single plan -> grill-me (interview relentlessly, one question at a time, recommend each answer, explore the codebase instead of asking when a question is answerable).
• Wide / under-specified program -> grill-me-extensive (the 7-step method: scout, diverge, structure, foundation-first, one-at-a-time, capture, converge — plus its grill modes).

grill-with-docs = those, plus the four domain moves and the load/capture wiring below.

Before the grill — load the grounding

Recall is the part everyone skips. Do it first so your challenges are grounded, not generic:

• mcp__basic-memory__search_notes / mcp__basic-memory__build_context for the domain glossary and prior decisions in this area; mcp__basic-memory__recent_activity for what changed lately.

During the grill — the four domain moves

Capture decisions back — close the loop

Why this beats CONTEXT.md / ADR files