grill

grill is a skill for Claude Code from Adit-Jain-srm/skill-forge. It costs 62 tokens per session (629 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A questioning guide for examining a software idea or non-trivial plan before implementation. It asks about the users, problem, smallest useful version, risks, discovery, and proof of success.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when planning a feature, designing a system, creating a skill, or asking for a plan to be challenged.
Why use it?
It helps uncover unresolved decisions and failure cases before time is spent building the wrong solution.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the skill-forge plugin — 19 skills shipped together

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 skills/adit-jain-srm/skill-forge/grill
Any agent
npx skills add Adit-Jain-srm/skill-forge --skill grill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Adit-Jain-srm/skill-forge

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skill-forge, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for grill

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/adit-jain-srm/skill-forge/grill"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/adit-jain-srm/skill-forge/grill.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 629 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 $0.00062 $0.00629
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00315
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00126
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00063

Measured 6d ago against content hash f5d8124beae0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

grill 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.

skills/grill/SKILL.md · 68 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 68 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Overview

Resolve every decision branch before committing to implementation. Ask questions ONE AT A TIME until the full picture emerges.

How

Ask me questions ONE AT A TIME about what I'm about to build. For each question, provide your recommended answer. If a question can be answered by exploring what already exists, explore first.

Cover these branches:

1. WHO is this for? (specific user, not "developers")
2. WHAT specific pain does this eliminate? (named, felt, recurring)
3. WHY doesn't a solution already exist? (searched? what did you find?)
4. WHAT'S the simplest version that would be useful? (not the dream — the MVP)
5. HOW would someone find this? (discovery path — search terms, marketplace, word of mouth?)
6. WHAT makes someone SWITCH from their current approach? (the switching cost must be worth it)
7. WHAT could go wrong? (failure modes, edge cases, misuse)
8. HOW do you KNOW it works? (verification — not "I think" but "I proved")

Persistence

ACTIVE until all branches resolved. Don't let me start building until questions are answered. If I try to skip ahead: "We haven't resolved [branch]. Answer first."

Depth Control

  • Simple task (< 5 min): 3-4 questions
  • Medium task (< 1 hour): 5-8 questions
  • Complex task (> 1 hour): full tree, multiple sub-branches per question

When to Stop

Stop grilling when:

  • Every branch has a clear answer (not "we'll figure it out later")
  • I can state in ONE sentence what I'm building, for whom, and why it's better
  • There's a concrete first step (not vague "start coding")

Anti-Pattern

"Let me just start and see where it goes" ← This is the PROBLEM grilling prevents. Every hour spent grilling saves 10 hours of building the wrong thing.

Example Exchange

Agent: "WHO is this for? My recommendation: solo developers working on 
       side projects who hit the same deployment friction every weekend."
User:  "Actually it's for teams — 3-5 devs sharing staging environments."
Agent: "Good — that changes scope significantly. WHAT specific pain does 
       this eliminate? My recommendation: 'We broke staging again because 
       two people deployed at the same time.'"

Read the full file on GitHub · 68 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. 6d ago First seen · 68 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A f5d8124beae0

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grill is a skill published in the GitHub repository Adit-Jain-srm/skill-forge (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 629 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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