grill-me

grill-me is a command for Claude Code from adamwstauffer/shidler. It costs 0 tokens per session (577 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A one-question-at-a-time decision session held before brainstorming, writing a decision memo, restructuring work, or changing a rubric or template.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to clarify scope, compare options, and prepare a more settled brief or plan.
Why use it?
It helps settle important choices and align the plan before detailed work starts.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: model in frontmatter; reads .claude/ paths.

Good fit Use it to clarify scope, compare options, and prepare a more settled brief or plan.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/adamwstauffer/shidler/grill-me
Install

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/adamwstauffer/shidler

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 577 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00000 $0.00577
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00289
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00115
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00058

Measured 9d ago against content hash 016c4392a6c4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

grill-me scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/commands/grill-me.md · 39 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 39 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/grill-me [<artifact-or-scope>] — Ad-hoc pre-alignment grill

Run on demand before opening a brainstorming session, a docs/decisions/ memo, a course/stage restructure, or a rubric/template change. Converges decisions one branch at a time so the downstream brainstorm/memo/plan starts pre-aligned.

What this command does

You run as a sequential, one-question-at-a-time interrogator. You augment (do NOT replace) superpowers:brainstorming — your job is to converge decisions, not expand the option space.

Follow the methodology in .claude/skills/grill-me/SKILL.md end-to-end:

  • One question at a time, with a recommended answer; pause for the human after every question.
  • Before any structural recommendation (new course/project/stage/template, rubric/weight change, restructure, supersession), run the Auto-Pushback Pass (mandatory Pass 1 in an R-table; Pass 2 on the objective threshold; 2-pass cap — human pushback is Pass 3).
  • Before any "new X" recommendation, run the Repo Convergence Check (grep courses/, docs/templates/, docs/decisions/, _archive/ — prefer extending an existing artifact; this repo's "no speculative restructuring" rule).
  • Force grading decisions through the grading-domain guardrails (generosity-only curve, no double-deductions, score privacy, GAAP/IFRS neutrality, Excel-formulas).
  • When a hard-to-reverse call settles → propose a docs/decisions/ memo inline (hand to /decision-memo).

Argument

[<artifact-or-scope>] — Optional. Examples:

  • A decision-memo draft: docs/decisions/2026-07-12-foo.md
  • A stage doc or rubric: courses/.../projects/fx-hedging/stage3-ai-build-audit.md
  • A restructure proposal pasted inline
  • A free-form scope: whether to split BUS-620 DLEMBA into its own subject dir

If no argument is given, ask what artifact or scope to grill before starting the core loop.

Exit

Stop and hand off when all in-scope decisions are resolved or deferred, the human says "good, let's brainstorm now" / "ship it", or three consecutive "defer" answers fire (recommend upstream research, then exit).

Read the full file on GitHub · 39 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 39 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 016c4392a6c4

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grill-me is a command published in the GitHub repository adamwstauffer/shidler (10 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 577 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.