grill-me

grill-me is a skill for Claude Code from Aiyo28/memento-os. It costs 78 tokens per session (901 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured interview process for testing a plan, design, or software architecture by examining its assumptions and possible failure points.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to challenge a plan, review an architecture, or act as a devil's advocate while recording decisions, insights, errors, and deferred ideas.
Why use it?
It helps expose gaps and unresolved branches before they cause problems later.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the memento-os plugin — 7 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to challenge a plan, review an architecture, or act as a devil's advocate while recording decisions, insights, errors, and deferred ideas.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aiyo28/memento-os/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 Aiyo28/memento-os --skill grill-me
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Aiyo28/memento-os

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install memento-os, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 901 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.
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 $0.00078 $0.00901
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00451
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00180
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00090

Measured 12d ago against content hash bf6b718ddebe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, 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 12d 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.

adapters/codex/skills/grill-me/SKILL.md · 82 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 82 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/grill-me

Interview relentlessly until every branch of the decision tree is walked and resolved. The goal is shared understanding — not critique for its own sake, but surfacing the gaps that would bite later.

Context Loading (Vault Retrieval Gate)

Before grilling, run the retrieval gate to surface prior decisions:

  1. Scan _context.md Active Reasoning Artifacts table for [D] entries matching the domain
  2. Glob Decisions/*{topic}* for full artifact files
  3. If prior decision found → use as grilling context: "You decided X on {date}. Has the invalidation trigger fired?"
  4. Load domain-relevant vault knowledge:
    • Technical → Glob {vault_path}/Knowledge/AI*, Knowledge/MOC — * if exists
    • Business → Glob {vault_path}/Knowledge/Business*
  5. Use matched notes + prior decisions as grilling ammunition

Before You Start

  1. Read the plan/design the user is referring to (file, conversation context, or ask them to state it)
  2. If a codebase exists, explore it first — don't ask questions you could answer by reading code

Grilling Protocol

Work through these dimensions one at a time. For each, ask pointed questions, wait for answers, and probe deeper before moving on. Don't shotgun a list of 10 questions — go one branch at a time and resolve it.

1. Assumptions

What are you taking for granted? What must be true for this to work? Ask about each assumption and whether it's been validated.

2. Dependencies

What does this depend on? What depends on this? Walk the dependency chain and look for circular dependencies, bottlenecks, or single points of failure.

3. Edge Cases

What happens when inputs are unexpected? When scale changes? When the user does something you didn't plan for? When things fail halfway through?

4. Trade-offs

What did you give up to get this design? Are you aware of the cost? Would a different trade-off serve you better?

5. Alternatives

Why this approach and not the obvious alternatives? If the user can't articulate why, that's a gap.

Read the full file on GitHub · 82 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. 12d ago First seen · 82 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A bf6b718ddebe

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grill-me is a skill published in the GitHub repository Aiyo28/memento-os (4 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 901 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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