grill-me

grill-me is a skill for Claude Code from adamwstauffer/shidler. It costs 0 tokens per session (2,377 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A question-by-question review process that challenges a plan and helps narrow several possible choices into a final decision.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to work through major policy changes, course or subject restructures, rubric updates, templates, and other decisions that need deliberate questioning.
Why use it?
It exposes unresolved assumptions before they become fixed in a memo, course redesign, rubric, or template.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

Good fit Use it to work through major policy changes, course or subject restructures, rubric updates, templates, and other decisions that need deliberate questioning.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/adamwstauffer/shidler/grill-me
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.

Any agent
npx skills add adamwstauffer/shidler --skill grill-me
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/adamwstauffer/shidler

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,377 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.02377
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01189
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00475
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00238

Measured 11d ago against content hash 42b27bfc95be, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, 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 11d 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/skills/grill-me/SKILL.md · 154 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 154 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Grill-Me Skill

Authority: This skill augments superpowers:brainstorming; it does NOT replace it. Brainstorming expands the option space — grill-me converges decisions before they calcify in a memo, a restructure, a rubric, or a template. Adapted from mattpocock/skills/grill-me, retargeted from a software/database domain onto this docs/Markdown/Excel repo.

When to invoke

Ad-hoc, user-triggered. Invoke manually before:

  • Opening a docs/decisions/ memo on a non-trivial call (a restructure, a grading-policy change, a supersession).
  • A course/subject-directory restructure or a stage-doc redesign.
  • A rubric or weight change (e.g. re-weighting stages, changing a curve floor).
  • A new template or a change to an existing one.
  • Any brainstorming session the user wants pre-aligned (typed /grill-me or "grill me on X").

When NOT to invoke

  • Mid-way through a mechanical batch (e.g. grading student N of 20) — pre-align before the batch, not during.
  • For obvious, no-ambiguity edits (fix a typo, add one bullet).
  • Pure conversational tasks (status, summaries, lookups).
  • After the user has already explicitly entered superpowers:brainstorming — grill-me runs before, not in parallel.

Core loop

One question at a time. Recommend an answer. Pause for the human.

1. Read the artifact (memo draft, stage doc, rubric, template, restructure proposal)
2. Identify the next unresolved decision branch
3. Ask ONE question with:
   - The specific decision being made
   - A recommended answer (with reasoning)
4. Pause. Wait for the human to confirm / redirect / dig deeper.
5. If a term or convention crystallizes → propose capturing it inline (glossary line, or a decision-memo row)
6. If a hard-to-reverse decision settles → propose a `docs/decisions/` memo inline (hand to /decision-memo)
7. Loop until exit criteria met

Never batch-dump questions. Never advance the tree until the current branch resolves.

Auto-Pushback Pass (MANDATORY before presenting any structural recommendation)

Read the full file on GitHub · 154 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. 11d ago First seen · 154 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 42b27bfc95be

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grill-me is a skill published in the GitHub repository adamwstauffer/shidler (10 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,377 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.

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