productivity / Work & communicate
grill-me
Interview the user relentlessly about a plan or design until reaching shared understanding, resolving each branch of the decision tree.
Put it to work.
Ask your agent to use grill-me, or let it load the skill when your task matches the description.
Use the grill-me skillInvocation syntax varies by agent. Use the skill name in your prompt, or your agent’s supported slash command.
About this skill
Get interviewed relentlessly about a plan or design until you reach shared understanding with the agent. Walks the design tree branch-by-branch, resolving dependencies between decisions one at a time.
For each question, the agent provides its recommended answer — so the interview is opinionated, not a blank stare.
Flow
flowchart LR
Q[Ask one question<br/>+ recommended answer] --> A[Wait for user]
A --> R{Resolved?}
R -->|yes| N[Walk to next branch]
R -->|no| Q
N --> Q
N -->|tree fully resolved| D[Done]If a question can be answered by reading the codebase, the skill explores the codebase instead of asking.
Install
npx skills@latest add smeltery/skillsOr copy just this skill:
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/grill-me
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/smeltery/skills/main/skills/productivity/grill-me/SKILL.md \
-o ~/.claude/skills/grill-me/SKILL.mdUsage
Trigger by saying "grill me", "stress-test this plan", or "interview me about this design".
For code-specific grilling that also updates CONTEXT.md and ADRs as
decisions land, see /grill-with-docs.
Files
SKILL.md— canonical skill definition.
Attribution
Ported from mattpocock/skills under MIT. See THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.md.
Read the full SKILL.md
Interview me relentlessly about every aspect of this plan until we reach a shared understanding. Walk down each branch of the design tree, resolving dependencies between decisions one-by-one. For each question, provide your recommended answer.
Ask the questions one at a time.
If a question can be answered by exploring the codebase, explore the codebase instead.