grill-me

A rule that interviews you closely about a plan or design until the decisions and trade-offs are understood. It follows each branch of the decision tree and recommends an answer for every question.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to stress-test a plan or design, resolve decisions one by one, and identify questions that should be answered by exploring the codebase.
Why use it?
It exposes unclear assumptions, unresolved choices, and dependencies before implementation starts.

Cursor rule for Codex

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 rules/udecode/plate-playground-template/grill-me
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/udecode/plate-playground-template

Made for: Codex.

Per session 45 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 109 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 $0.00045 $0.00109
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00055
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00022
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00011

Measured yesterday against content hash 0502902be14e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 yesterday.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • grill-me — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
.agents/rules/grill-me.mdc · 8 lines

What it actually says

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.

If a question can be answered by exploring the codebase, explore the codebase instead.

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. yesterday First seen · 8 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 0502902be14e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

grill-me is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository udecode/plate-playground-template (240 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 109 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 2026-08-30.