grill-docs

grill-docs is a skill for Claude Code from bendrucker/claude. It costs 33 tokens per session (467 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A documentation workflow that interviews you about terms and decisions, then writes the agreed information into the repository as you go.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to record definitions in project instruction files and decisions beside the plans that produced them.
Why use it?
It keeps important project knowledge available if an agent session is shortened, interrupted, or abandoned.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Good fit Use it to record definitions in project instruction files and decisions beside the plans that produced them.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bendrucker/claude/grill-docs
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 bendrucker/claude --skill grill-docs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bendrucker/claude

Made for: Claude Code.

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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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 467 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 $0.00033 $0.00467
Opus 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00187
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00093
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00047

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 9d2f250d5ba2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

grill-docs 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 1mo 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.

user/skills/grill-docs/SKILL.md · 57 lines

What it actually says

Grill With Docs

Run the grilling skill's interview over $ARGUMENTS, and write each term and decision to disk as soon as it is settled.

Writing as we go is the point. If the session is compacted or abandoned, the repo still holds what we agreed.

Where It Lands

Choose both destinations before the first round and say them back to me.

Terms go where the repo already keeps instructions Claude loads automatically:

  • A term that applies to one part of the repo goes in .claude/rules/<area>.md under a paths entry, so it loads when that part is touched.
  • A term that applies everywhere goes in CLAUDE.md.
  • Create the file if it does not exist.

Decisions go beside the plan that produced them, as <plan>-decisions.md in the same directory.

Vocabulary

Write a term as soon as it is settled, which means I have picked both the word and its meaning.

Prefer a word the codebase already uses. When the question is what to call something, search the codebase for candidates first and offer those as the options.

A definition says what the thing is and how it differs from the thing it is most easily confused with. Keep it to that.

Decisions

Record a decision when all three hold:

  • Reversing it later would be expensive.
  • Someone who was not in this conversation would not guess it.
  • It was a tradeoff: a reasonable alternative was rejected.

Most sessions produce no decision that meets all three, and that is expected.

A record states the decision, the alternatives it rejects, and the tradeoff.

Close

Write the interview's closing escalation contract (what to proceed on without asking, what to stop and consult on) into the decisions file, then wait for me to confirm it.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 57 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 9d2f250d5ba2

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grill-docs is a skill published in the GitHub repository bendrucker/claude (18 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 467 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-11.

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