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docs(planning): reword interview phrases shared with mattpocock grilling, and re-pin the interview digests #9790

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@kyle-sexton

Parent: #7052 (owner decision 2026-10-13: pinned planning/interview lines split into their own item). Blocked by the #7269 pin slice, because both re-pin digests in plugins/planning/tests/interview-defenses.test.sh.

Problem

These interview lines share short phrases with mattpocock/skills skills/productivity/grilling/SKILL.md, skills/productivity/grill-me/SKILL.md and skills/engineering/grill-with-docs/SKILL.md (at 24fe0ef), per the #7052 comment of 2026-10-11T16:04:

  • plugins/planning/skills/interview/SKILL.md: the "too big to hold in one session" line in Stance, the "frontier is empty" phrasing in Step 2, and the composition-table line "come back and answer in one line".
  • Step 3's "an empty frontier is necessary but not sufficient" (byte-pinned by interview-defenses.test.sh); reword it to the stop wording "no question is left to ask".
  • context/loop.md: "question in the same round", near the branch-out mechanics.
  • "the frontier is empty" in context/assumption-sweep.md (digest-pinned), templates/checklist.md, the interview evals/evals.json and /planning:wayfind.

Done when

  • For each of the three upstream files, gh api -H 'Accept: application/vnd.github.raw' 'repos/mattpocock/skills/contents/<path>?ref=24fe0ef' > /tmp/grill.md then node plugins/attribution/skills/audit/scripts/fingerprint.mjs compare --local plugins/planning/skills/interview/SKILL.md --source /tmp/grill.md | jq .separation.fired prints false; same for context/loop.md.
  • git grep -n -i 'frontier is empty' -- plugins/planning prints nothing.
  • The byte pins and digests are updated and scripts/run-test-file.sh plugins/planning/tests/interview-defenses.test.sh passes.
  • scripts/check-changelog-fragments.sh passes.

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    on Oct 24, 2026
  2. github-actions commented on Oct 24, 2026

    @github-actions
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    Proposed work class: work-class: scoped
    Basis: automated intake triage; the lanes App applied this class.

    Size: Medium
    Complexity: Medium
    Uncertainty: Known
    Flags: none

    Understood: reword several short interview phrases in the planning plugin (SKILL.md, loop.md, assumption-sweep.md, checklist, evals, wayfind) so they no longer overlap with the upstream grilling skills. Then update the byte pins and digests in interview-defenses.test.sh. The issue says it is blocked by the #7269 pin slice, since both re-pin the same digests. The done-when items are specific and checkable. No duplicates found.

    Automated triage, applied by the lanes App.

  3. added
    priority: lowNice-to-have, cosmetic, or speculative; opportunistic.
    and removed
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    on Oct 24, 2026
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    status: readyTriaged, unblocked, and fully specified; eligible to pick up.
    work-class: scopedA briefed fix or small feature; blast radius bounded by the brief, tests exist.
    on Oct 24, 2026
  5. melodic-automation-lanes commented on Oct 24, 2026

    @melodic-automation-lanes
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    Not admitted to the issue lane yet: blocker #9793 is not closed as completed by a listed human or a merge.

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