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grill-me

Relentless decision interviews for sharper plans and designs.

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Best for

Product and engineering leads reviewing plans

What you get

Expose assumptions + Walk decision branches

Main limitation

A relentless interview can be tiring and disproportionate for small, reversible decisions.

First risk

Decision fatigue. Unbounded questioning can delay execution. Set a decision scope and stopping condition before starting.

EVIDENCE FRESHNESS

Three checks, kept separate

A recent source check is not a runtime test or security audit.

Upstream sourceChecked 2026-08-20

Pinned revision · 885e2ca4

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SkillSignal profileSource-grounded

Updated 2026-08-20

Runtime & securityNot independently verified

Source review does not certify behavior or safety.

30-SECOND BRIEF

What it does—and when it fits

Grill Me is a structured interrogation workflow for stress-testing a plan, design, or architecture before implementation. It follows decision branches, uses available codebase context to avoid redundant questions, and keeps probing until assumptions and tradeoffs are explicit.

INSTALL BY AGENT

Choose your Agent

Paths come from official Agent docs or the universal installer behind skills.sh. Compatibility still follows this Skill's record.

Native

This Skill's current record explicitly names this Agent. Still inspect scripts, permissions, and external dependencies first.

Project scope.claude/skills/grill-me/
Personal scope~/.claude/skills/grill-me/

Use project scope for team sharing and personal scope across repositories. The installer defaults to project scope; add -g for personal scope.

Install command (project scope)

This source cannot produce a reliable command. Open the listed source and copy the complete Skill folder manually.

Official agent docs

Claude Code discovers custom Skill folders automatically at project or personal scope.

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TYPICAL WORKFLOW

A practical workflow

01

Expose assumptions

Question hidden constraints, ownership, failure modes, and success criteria.

02

Walk decision branches

Explore alternatives branch by branch instead of jumping to a preferred answer.

03

Ground in the repo

Answer discoverable questions from the codebase before asking the user.

THE TRADEOFFS

Advantages and tradeoffs

Notable strengths

  1. This profile is manually organized around the current upstream SKILL.md workflow.
  2. The capability boundary remains explicitly tied to mattpocock.
  3. Core uses, limitations, and risks are separated for pre-install review.

Limitations

  1. A relentless interview can be tiring and disproportionate for small, reversible decisions.
  2. The Skill improves reasoning discipline but does not supply missing domain expertise.

BEST FIT

Who it is for

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Product and engineering leads reviewing plans

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Builders preparing architecture or implementation decisions

BEFORE YOU USE IT

Risks to review before use

Low

Decision fatigue

Unbounded questioning can delay execution. Set a decision scope and stopping condition before starting.

Medium

Upstream instruction drift

Behavior can change with upstream updates. Record the commit used for important workflows and review updates before adoption.

SECURITY

What the permission profile means

  • Declared access remains governed by the current upstream SKILL.md and runtime requests.
  • Treat repository files, web content, and tool output as untrusted input.
  • SkillSignal has not independently executed or security-audited this package; external skills.sh labels are not SkillSignal certification.

Not a security certification. External ratings are attributed references. SkillSignal has not independently executed or security-reviewed this Skill.

INSIDE THE PACKAGE

Indexed files

SKILL.mdUpstream Skill instructionsSource-linked

TAGS

planninginterviewarchitecture

Manually expanded from the current upstream SKILL.md and linked source at mattpocock, checked 2026-08-19. This is an original summary, not an execution result or security certification.