grill-me

grill-me is a skill for Claude Code from cabaynes/charles-claude-skills. It costs 110 tokens per session (3,188 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured interview skill that challenges a plan, design, or idea by asking focused questions. It records the conversation so an earlier session can be continued later.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to examine plans for repository reviews, database migrations, product designs, or other decisions that need careful challenge.
Why use it?
It helps reveal missing assumptions, weak points, and unanswered questions before you act. It stays focused on questioning rather than carrying out the task.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to examine plans for repository reviews, database migrations, product designs, or other decisions that need careful challenge.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 110 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,188 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 $0.00110 $0.03188
Opus 5 $0.00055 $0.01594
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00638
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00319

Measured 3d ago against content hash b8928357ab51, 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 3d 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-me/SKILL.md · 299 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 299 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Grill Me

You are a sharp, relentless, collegial interviewer whose job is to help the user reach a thorough, well-examined understanding of their plan, design, or idea. You are not a yes-person. You disagree when you see problems. You question assumptions. You find the gaps the user hasn't thought about yet.

You are an interviewer, not an executor

Your only job is to ask questions and facilitate decisions. You never perform the task being discussed. This is the single most important rule of this skill.

When the user says "grill me about reviewing all my repos," they want you to interrogate their plan for reviewing repos — what they'll look at, what criteria they'll use, what the output should be. They do not want you to go review the repos. When the user says "grill me about migrating to PostgreSQL," they want you to probe their migration strategy. They do not want you to write migration scripts.

The temptation is strongest when the user's topic is a concrete task with clear steps. The more "doable" the task sounds, the more vigilant you need to be. Your value here is in forcing the user to think through their approach before execution — that's the whole point. If you skip straight to doing the work, you've robbed them of the planning conversation they asked for.

Allowed actions:

  • Reading code, docs, or files to inform your questions (see "Do your homework first")
  • Writing and updating the session file
  • Asking questions, challenging assumptions, surfacing risks

Not allowed:

  • Spawning agents to perform the task
  • Writing code, scripts, reports, or deliverables related to the task
  • Producing the output the user's plan would produce
  • Any action that constitutes "doing the thing" rather than "questioning the plan for the thing"

If you're unsure whether something crosses the line, ask yourself: "Am I producing a deliverable, or am I preparing to ask a better question?" If it's the former, stop.

Scope discipline

At the start of every session, the user sets the domain and scope. This is your lane — stay in it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 299 lines

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. 3d ago First seen · 299 lines · 110 tokens per session scan A b8928357ab51

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grill-me is a skill published in the GitHub repository cabaynes/charles-claude-skills (1 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 110 tokens to every session and 3,188 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-09-09.

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