grilling

grilling is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from byheaven/byheaven-skills. It costs 48 tokens per session (401 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured questioning method for examining a plan, decision, or idea. It asks the important questions in rounds, with later questions depending on earlier answers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to stress-test designs, clarify decisions, compare options, and guide a project toward a shared conclusion.
Why use it?
It helps reveal missing assumptions and unresolved choices before work begins, instead of letting a plan proceed on guesses.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the manager plugin — 7 skills, 4 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to stress-test designs, clarify decisions, compare options, and guide a project toward a shared conclusion.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/byheaven/byheaven-skills/grilling
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 byheaven/byheaven-skills --skill grilling
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/byheaven/byheaven-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install manager, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 4 agents.

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 grilling

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/byheaven/byheaven-skills/grilling/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/byheaven/byheaven-skills/grilling)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/byheaven/byheaven-skills/grilling"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/byheaven/byheaven-skills/grilling/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for grilling

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/byheaven/byheaven-skills/grilling"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/byheaven/byheaven-skills/grilling.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 401 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 $0.00048 $0.00401
Opus 5.5 $0.00019 $0.00160
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00080
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00040

Measured 12d ago against content hash 395f7cef78b3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

grilling 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.

plugins/manager/skills/grilling/SKILL.md · 23 lines

What it actually says

Interview the user relentlessly until you reach a shared understanding. Map this as a design tree: every decision branches into the decisions that hang off it.

Work the tree in rounds. The frontier is every decision whose prerequisites are already settled: the questions you can ask now without guessing at answers you haven't heard yet. Ask the whole frontier in one round: number each question and give your recommended answer. Then wait for the user's answers before the next round.

Each question should be formatted like so:

❓ **Q1** - **<question title>**: <question body, might be multiple paragraphs, including multiple choices>

➡️ <your recommended answer>

Each round the user answers reshapes the tree: settled decisions push the frontier outward and unblock questions that depended on them. Recompute the frontier and ask the next round. A question whose answer depends on another question still open in this round belongs to a later round, not this one.

Finding facts is your job, never the user's. Obtain an environmental fact directly when a focused read or observation is sufficient. Delegate bounded investigation when independent work, specialist observation, or context isolation adds enough value to cover its handoff and integration cost; use the host workflow's production-topology rule when one applies. Do not ask the user for a fact you can obtain. A running investigation is an unsettled prerequisite: only its dependent questions wait, while independent work can continue. User-owned decisions still return to the user.

The session is done when the frontier is empty: every branch of the design tree visited, nothing left silently assumed. Do not act on it until the user confirms you have reached a shared understanding.

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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 · 23 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 395f7cef78b3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

grilling is a skill published in the GitHub repository byheaven/byheaven-skills (2 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 401 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-10-05.

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