grill-me: gate the anchor behind the LIGHT-end-to-end decline

plugins/grill-me/skills/grill-me/SKILL.md

@@ -41,20 +41,20 @@ starts — shared understanding, not validation or fan-out.
 
 Trigger on "grill me", "interview me about this plan", "stress-test this
 plan", or before a nontrivial multi-step change whose design isn't settled.
-A plan that triages LIGHT end to end gets a brief "no session needed."
 
 ## Anchor, then consent to each path
 
-No branch questioning before the **anchor** is set: the goal, the outcome
+First triage the whole plan: if every branch is LIGHT end to end, there is
+no session — say "no session needed" and stop, before any anchor. Otherwise,
+no branch questioning before the **anchor** is set: the goal, the outcome
 that counts as success, and what is out of scope — inferred from the plan
 text and confirmed in one exchange, never a series. Then, before
 descending into any STANDARD or DEEP branch, present a **path-consent
-header** — the branch, its tier, roughly how many questions it costs, and
-a one-line recommendation for the whole path — and let the user route:
+header** — the branch, its tier, its question cost, and a one-line
+recommendation — and let the user route with one word:
 **explore / accept / defer / out-of-scope**. Only "explore" spends
-questions; headers are batched into one routing round, ordered by
-leverage. Full mechanic, header format, and the irreversibility
-exception: [`references/path-consent.md`](references/path-consent.md).
+questions; headers are batched into one routing round, ordered by leverage.
+Full mechanic and the irreversibility exception: [`references/path-consent.md`](references/path-consent.md).
 
 ## The frontier/round loop
 

plugins/grill-me/skills/grill-me/references/path-consent.md

@@ -6,6 +6,17 @@ questions about a branch they never wanted explored. Path consent converts
 the design-tree walk into disclosure — the user sees the map and the price
 before paying for any descent.
 
+## Before the anchor — the decline gate
+
+The anchor is not the first move; triage is. Read the whole plan and tier
+each branch. If **every** branch triages LIGHT end to end, there is no
+session to run — say so briefly ("no session needed") and stop. Do not set
+an anchor for a plan that has nothing above LIGHT to route: the anchor and
+the consent menu exist to price STANDARD/DEEP descents, and a fully-settled
+or all-two-way-door plan has none, so the ceremony would be pure overhead.
+The anchor below is reached only once at least one STANDARD or DEEP branch
+survives triage.
+
 ## The anchor (round 0)
 
 No branch questioning before three slots are set:
@@ -76,6 +87,9 @@ the whole session.
 
 - **Anchorless interrogation** — a deep question series fired before the
   goal and outcome are confirmed; the exact waste this reference removes.
+- **Anchor before decline** — setting an anchor or opening round 0 on a
+  plan that triages LIGHT end to end, instead of declining with "no
+  session needed"; the decline gate above runs first, ahead of the anchor.
 - **Consent spam** — headers on LIGHT branches, or re-asking consent a
   question at a time instead of batching the routing round.
 - **Menu without a recommendation** — a bare "want to explore X?" gives