grill-decision

grill-decision is a skill for Claude Code from arozumenko/sdlc-skills. It costs 176 tokens per session (3,340 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided interview for making difficult decisions, testing hypotheses, and clarifying vague plans through one question at a time.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to pressure-test initiatives, sharpen wording, choose between alternatives, and record decisions or updated hypotheses as they become clear.
Why use it?
It exposes weak assumptions and unresolved choices before a plan or idea is accepted.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the sdlc-skills plugin — 53 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to pressure-test initiatives, sharpen wording, choose between alternatives, and record decisions or updated hypotheses as they become clear.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/arozumenko/sdlc-skills/grill-decision
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 arozumenko/sdlc-skills --skill grill-decision
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/arozumenko/sdlc-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install sdlc-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 53 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-decision

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 176 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,340 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 $0.00176 $0.03340
Opus 5 $0.00088 $0.01670
Sonnet 5 $0.00035 $0.00668
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00334

Measured 12d ago against content hash fcf8630a3025, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

grill-decision 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.

bundles/product-management/skills/grill-decision/SKILL.md · 219 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 219 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

grill-decision

Interview the user one question at a time until you reach a shared, sharp understanding. For each question, propose your recommended answer with a short justification — don't ask open-ended "what do you think?" questions when you can take a position the user can react to.

Walk down the decision tree branch by branch. Resolve dependencies between decisions one at a time. Wait for feedback on each question before moving to the next.

Whenever a question can be answered by reading what already exists — .agents/profile.md, the project's docs/, docs/discovery/decisions.md, the Hypotheses, prior evidence — read instead of asking. The user has already invested in those documents; don't make them retell what's written down.

Capture outcomes inline as they crystallize — never batch to the end of the session. A term that just got sharpened is corrected now, in the artifact that used it; a decision that just got made becomes a DEC entry in docs/discovery/decisions.md now; a Hypothesis that just got sharpened gets edited now. Inline writes survive an interrupted session; a wall of edits at the end does not. Note progress via the memory skill's Log op after each inline capture, before the next question.

What this skill reads (config, by name — never restated here)

Read these at the start of a session; they replace every hardcoded domain fact:

  • .agents/profile.md — the project's guardrails and constraints (whatever form they take for this product — scope lines, non-negotiable rules, compliance requirements). These are the challenge lenses (below): every recommendation and every Hypothesis passes through all of them. A guardrail marked non-negotiable or a hard boundary is an emergency brake — a recommendation that trips it is not viable as written, surface it, don't paper over it.
  • .agents/profile.md and the project's docs/ — the product one-liner, phase framing, the surfaces this product owns, and any decision convention already in use for flagging work that depends on an unresolved call (generalize on the pattern // PENDING_DECISION_DEC-NNN: assuming [option] because [reason] if the project has none of its own).
  • docs/discovery/decisions.md — the append-only DEC log (id | date | decision | rationale | supersedes). This file, not this skill, is the canonical home of decisions.

Read the full file on GitHub · 219 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 219 lines · 176 tokens per session scan A fcf8630a3025

Subscribe to this mod's changes

grill-decision is a skill published in the GitHub repository arozumenko/sdlc-skills (20 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 176 tokens to every session and 3,340 once invoked, about $0.0009 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.

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