Grill-to-knowledge — every grill-me answer lands in knowledge/

rule Sun Jun 21 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) rulegrillknowledgeself-update

Grill-to-knowledge

The rule

When the user invokes grill-me or asks a sequence of design questions, EVERY locked answer MUST land in knowledge/ in the same conversation. That includes:

• The question stem
• The chosen option
• The rejected options
• The "why" (rationale for the choice + why the rejected options were rejected)

Two destinations are valid:

• Append to the relevant existing decision file (knowledge/decisions/<topic>/<slug>.md)
• Write a new decisions/architecture/<topic>.md if no existing file covers it

Why

The chat transcript is the audit trail of HOW we got to a decision. The knowledge file is the SSoT for WHAT the decision is. Without writing it down, the next session re-debates the same questions because no one remembers what was locked.

How to apply

• Every grill-me invocation produces at least one knowledge file edit before the conversation ends.
• New decisions get a 2026-06-21-style entry in knowledge/decisions/index.md.
• Multi-question grills produce one consolidated decision file, not one file per question.

Cross-refs

• The self-update sibling rule ? [[rules/self-update-rule]]
• Keep-knowledge-fresh sibling rule ? [[rules/keep-knowledge-fresh]]