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grill-me

Use it when:
You have a plan or design you haven't fully thought through.
It does:
Starts the grilling skill: rounds of numbered questions, each with a recommended answer.
Needs:
The grilling skill, from the same bundle.
Runs:
Only when you call it.

Skill 4 of 24 in the Engineering workflow bundle, after grill-with-docs and before grilling.

Only works inside its bundle: Its whole SKILL.md loads grilling. Install Engineering workflow instead.

Now a one-line alias that calls the grilling skill.

TL;DR

A shortcut: its whole SKILL.md tells the agent to load the grilling skill, so once started the two behave the same. The difference is how they start. grill-me only runs when you call it by name, while the agent can pick up grilling by itself when you say you want your thinking stress-tested. During the session, the agent maps your plan as a tree of decisions and questions you round by round until nothing is left assumed.

Summarizes the skill at 5beb35b.

npx skills add https://github.com/mattpocock/skills --skill grill-me

skills.sh pageSource on GitHubAll skills from mattpocock/skills

Weekly Downloads week to Nov 9, 2026
41,260
-23% in 8 weeks

More weekly downloads than 99% of skills

Weekly values
Week toInstalls
Sep 2153,625
Sep 2848,139
Oct 548,386
Oct 1258,939
Oct 1952,386
Oct 2648,664
Nov 243,368
Nov 941,260
Total Downloads on skills.sh
1,518,702

More downloads than 99% of skills

Repo stars mattpocock/skills
318,714

More stars than 98% of repos

Age published Mar 13, 2026
7 months

Older than 50% of skills

Category
category:planningcategory:software-engineering

Make the agent question you and write the plan down before it writes code.

Everything for building software: planning, coding, debugging, design, frameworks, cloud, agents and skills.
Type
type:workflow

A multi-step process the agent follows: interview, debug, run a TDD loop, review.
Effect
effect:none

Adds no side effects of its own. It shapes how the agent thinks, writes or reviews. Guidelines and routers are always effect:none, even when the task they support edits code.
Needs
needs:none

Instructions only. Works in any agent that supports skills.
Publisher
by:community

Everyone else. Unverified vendor claims default to community.
Topics
interviewplanningrequirements

SKILL.md

From mattpocock/skills at 5beb35b. Checked daily, last changed Oct 20, 2026.

Frontmatter
name: grill-me
description: A relentless interview to sharpen a plan or design.
disable-model-invocation: true

Call the Skill tool with "grilling".