grill-with-docs

grill-with-docs is a command for coding agents from naimkatiman/continuous-improvement. It costs 49 tokens per session (612 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided design discussion that asks one question at a time while checking a plan against the project's existing business terms and architecture decisions. An ADR is a short record of an important architecture choice.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to refine a plan, update CONTEXT.md with agreed terminology, and record major trade-offs in docs/adr/.
Why use it?
It helps resolve vague language and decisions before they cause confusion in the code or documentation.

Command

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-with-docs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/naimkatiman/continuous-improvement

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README.md
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Per session 49 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 612 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 $0.00049 $0.00612
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00306
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00122
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00061

Measured 4d ago against content hash 009c4889d969, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

grill-with-docs 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 4d 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-with-docs.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-with-docs

Stress-test the current plan or design by interviewing the user one question at a time AND updating the project's domain-language doc (CONTEXT.md) and architecture decision records (docs/adr/) inline as decisions land.

Trigger phrases

  • /grill-with-docs
  • "grill me and update the docs"
  • "stress-test this against our domain model"
  • "let's nail down the language and ADR this"

What happens

  1. Read CONTEXT.md (or CONTEXT-MAP.md + per-context CONTEXT.md) and docs/adr/ if they exist. Use them as the source of truth for project language and prior decisions.
  2. Walk the decision tree top-down. One question at a time with a recommended answer.
  3. Challenge fuzzy terms against the glossary. Sharpen vague language. Stress-test relationships with concrete scenarios. Cross-reference user statements against the code.
  4. When a term is resolved, update CONTEXT.md immediately (lazy-create if missing). Use the format in the skill's Appendix A.
  5. Offer an ADR only when all three are true: hard to reverse, surprising without context, result of a real trade-off. Use the format in Appendix B.

When to fire this instead of /grill-me

Skill Use when
/grill-me Conversation-only grilling; no project to update yet, or no docs convention.
/grill-with-docs Project has CONTEXT.md or is ready to start one; decisions should persist past the session.

Skill file

Full behavior, format specs, and 7 Laws fit are defined in skills/grill-with-docs.md. The verbatim upstream cold-storage copies live at third-party/mattpocock-skills/skills/engineering/grill-with-docs/ (SKILL.md, CONTEXT-FORMAT.md, ADR-FORMAT.md); SHA pin in third-party/MANIFEST.md.

Attribution

Ported from mattpocock/skills engineering/grill-with-docs (MIT, © 2026 Matt Pocock). Mattpocock calls this his most powerful skill: "It's hard to explain how powerful this is. It might be the single coolest technique in this repo."

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. 4d ago First seen · 39 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 009c4889d969

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grill-with-docs is a command published in the GitHub repository naimkatiman/continuous-improvement (7 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 612 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.