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grilling Skill

Grilling stress-tests a plan, decision, or idea as a dependency-aware design tree.

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Best for

Founders and teams stress-testing important plans

What you get

Expose hidden decisions + Resolve decisions in order

Main limitation

It deliberately delays implementation until the decision tree is complete and explicitly confirmed.

First risk

Decision fatigue or recommendation anchoring. Many questions can exhaust the user, and confident recommendations may bias choices before alternatives are understood. Keep rounds bounded, show tradeoffs, distinguish facts from judgment, and preserve the user's authority.

EVIDENCE FRESHNESS

Three checks, kept separate

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

Upstream sourceChecked 2026-09-23

Pinned revision · c55ee460

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Updated 2026-09-23

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IN PLAIN ENGLISH

What it does—and when it fits

Grilling stress-tests a plan, decision, or idea as a dependency-aware design tree. It asks each currently unblocked frontier of questions in numbered rounds, supplies a recommended answer for every decision, researches discoverable facts rather than delegating them to the user, and does not act until every branch is resolved and the user confirms shared understanding.

This is aimed at Founders and teams stress-testing important plans. Compare the examples below with your task, then review the limitations, permissions, and risks before installing.

What you get
  • Expose hidden decisionsMap assumptions and dependent choices into a design tree instead of discussing only the obvious question.
  • Resolve decisions in orderAsk all currently independent frontier questions together, then recompute what becomes answerable.
  • Add a point of viewPair every question with a recommended answer while leaving the final decision to the user.
What makes it different
  • This profile is manually organized around the current upstream SKILL.md workflow.
  • The capability boundary remains explicitly tied to mattpocock/skills.
  • Core uses, limitations, and risks are separated for pre-install review.
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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 install (recommended)
npx skills add https://github.com/mattpocock/skills --skill grilling --agent claude-code
Personal install
npx skills add https://github.com/mattpocock/skills --skill grilling --agent claude-code -g

Project install stays with this repository for team sharing. Personal install adds -g and works across repositories.

View install paths
Project path.claude/skills/grilling/
Personal path~/.claude/skills/grilling/
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 hidden decisions

Map assumptions and dependent choices into a design tree instead of discussing only the obvious question.

02

Resolve decisions in order

Ask all currently independent frontier questions together, then recompute what becomes answerable.

03

Add a point of view

Pair every question with a recommended answer while leaving the final decision to 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/skills.
  3. Core uses, limitations, and risks are separated for pre-install review.

Limitations

  1. It deliberately delays implementation until the decision tree is complete and explicitly confirmed.
  2. A broad idea can generate many rounds and requires sustained user participation rather than a quick output.

COMPARE THE TRADEOFF

Consider these close alternatives

These are deterministic nearby candidates, not paid placements or a universal ranking. Open the full profile before choosing.

01

Same job family · native to Claude Code + Codex

frontend-design

Design constraints that push generated interfaces beyond generic AI UI.
Tradeoff to check
Aesthetic judgments remain subjective and still need stakeholder review.
First risk
Style over function · Medium
Source state
Pinned · 34040c9c
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02

Same job family · native to Codex + Claude Code

web-design-guidelines

Review interfaces against practical web design and accessibility rules.
Tradeoff to check
It depends on network access and a live guideline document whose contents can change over time.
First risk
Rule drift or context-free findings · Medium
Source state
Pinned · 063bee94
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03

Same job family · native to Codex + Claude Code

anti-ui-slop

Instruction-only, product-specific UI design contracts with optional real-interface evidence and a hard finish gate.
Tradeoff to check
Repository evidence is required; UIZZE references or user-provided screenshots are optional, and missing reference evidence should be labeled rather than guessed.
First risk
Copying external interface patterns too literally · Medium
Source state
Pinned · 1f564408
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BEST FIT

Who it is for

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Founders and teams stress-testing important plans

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Users facing interdependent product or technical decisions

BEFORE YOU USE IT

Risks to review before use

Low

Decision fatigue or recommendation anchoring

Many questions can exhaust the user, and confident recommendations may bias choices before alternatives are understood. Keep rounds bounded, show tradeoffs, distinguish facts from judgment, and preserve the user's authority.

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.

COMMON QUESTIONS

grilling Skill FAQ

What is the grilling Skill?

Grilling stress-tests a plan, decision, or idea as a dependency-aware design tree. It asks each currently unblocked frontier of questions in numbered rounds, supplies a recommended answer for every decision, researches discoverable facts rather than delegating them to the user, and does not act until every branch is resolved and the user confirms shared understanding.

How do I install the grilling Skill?

Open and review the listed source, choose the project or personal path for your Agent, then verify the first run in a controlled project. Open the listed skills.sh page and upstream repository; verify the current SKILL.md.

Is the grilling Skill safe to use?

SkillSignal checked the source on 2026-09-23, but that is not a runtime test or security certification. Review the “Decision fatigue or recommendation anchoring” risk first and begin with the least access required.

INSIDE THE PACKAGE

Indexed files

SKILL.mdUpstream Skill instructionsSource-linked

TAGS

decision-makingstress-testinterview

Manually expanded from the current upstream SKILL.md and linked source at mattpocock/skills, checked 2026-09-23. This is an original summary, not an execution result or security certification.