grill-me

grill-me is a command for Claude Code from naimkatiman/continuous-improvement. It costs 31 tokens per session (502 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A one-question-at-a-time interview about a software plan or design. It checks the repository first, explores unresolved decisions in dependency order, and recommends an answer for each question.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to stress-test architecture, requirements, data models, and implementation plans, including decisions about scope, behavior, and deployment.
Why use it?
It reveals missing assumptions and unclear choices before implementation begins. The interview stops when a fresh developer could build the plan without major unanswered questions.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code command (commands/*.md).

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/naimkatiman/continuous-improvement/grill-me
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/naimkatiman/continuous-improvement

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 31 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 502 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00031 $0.00502
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00251
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00100
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00050

Measured 6d ago against content hash f7b22a3cd09d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, 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 6d 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.

commands/grill-me.md · 41 lines

What it actually says

/grill-me

Stress-test the current plan or design by interviewing the user one question at a time, walking every branch of the decision tree, and recommending an answer for each.

Trigger phrases

  • /grill-me
  • "grill me"
  • "stress-test this plan"
  • "interview me about this"
  • "what am I missing?"

What happens

  1. Identify the current plan or design from the conversation — the high-level goal, the assumptions in play, the decisions already made.
  2. Walk the decision tree top-down. For each unresolved branch, ask exactly one question with a recommended answer.
  3. Before asking, check whether the codebase already answers the question (grep, ls, file reads). If it does, use that and skip the question.
  4. Resolve dependencies in order — do not ask about deployment before the data model is pinned.
  5. Stop when the plan is shippable cold to a fresh agent. Do not interview past the point of usefulness.

Five interview rules

  1. One question at a time. Never multi-question; force depth on every branch.
  2. Always recommend. Every question carries "my answer would be X because Y".
  3. Explore before asking. Code answers beat user-attention answers.
  4. Walk the tree, do not jump. Order matters.
  5. Stop when shippable. End state is a plan a fresh agent could execute, not an infinite interview.

Skill file

Full behavior is defined in skills/grill-me.md. The verbatim upstream cold-storage copy lives at third-party/mattpocock-skills/skills/productivity/grill-me/SKILL.md; SHA pin in third-party/MANIFEST.md.

Attribution

Ported from mattpocock/skills productivity/grill-me (MIT, © 2026 Matt Pocock).

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. 6d ago First seen · 41 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A f7b22a3cd09d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

grill-me is a command published in the GitHub repository naimkatiman/continuous-improvement (7 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 502 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. 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.