grilling

grilling is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from devcxl/mattpocock-skills-zh. It costs 43 tokens per session (483 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured questioning method for testing a plan, decision, or idea through successive rounds. Each answer opens the next set of dependent questions until the design is fully examined.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to pressure-test plans, explore decision trees, and reach agreement on the choices needed before implementation.
Why use it?
It exposes hidden assumptions and unresolved choices before work begins. Facts are checked from available sources, while decisions remain with the user.

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 mattpocock-skills plugin — 37 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to pressure-test plans, explore decision trees, and reach agreement on the choices needed before implementation.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install mattpocock-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 37 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 grilling

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/devcxl/mattpocock-skills-zh/grilling/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/devcxl/mattpocock-skills-zh/grilling)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/devcxl/mattpocock-skills-zh/grilling"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/devcxl/mattpocock-skills-zh/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/devcxl/mattpocock-skills-zh/grilling"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/devcxl/mattpocock-skills-zh/grilling.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 483 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 $0.00043 $0.00483
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00242
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00097
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00048

Measured 10d ago against content hash 99004d0d6747, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, 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 10d 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/productivity/grilling/SKILL.md · 29 lines

What it actually says

持续盘问用户,直到你们达成共识。将讨论映射为一棵设计树(design tree):每个决策都会分支出一系列依赖它的子决策。

以**轮次(rounds)**推进这棵树。**前沿(frontier)**是所有前提已确定的决策:即你现在可以问的问题,无需猜测尚未听到的答案。每一轮问完整个前沿:为每个问题编号,并给出你的推荐答案。然后等待用户的回答,再进行下一轮。

每个问题格式如下:

❓ **Q1** - **<问题标题>**:<问题正文,可以是多段,包括多个选项>

➡️ <你的推荐答案>

---

❓ **Q2** - **<问题标题>**:<问题正文,可以是多段,包括多个选项>

➡️ <你的推荐答案>

每一轮用户的回答都会重塑这棵树:已确定的决策把前沿向外推,解锁依赖它们的问题。重新计算前沿,进入下一轮。某个问题的答案依赖本轮中另一个仍未回答的问题时,它属于更晚的轮次,而不是本轮。

寻找事实是你的工作,永远不是用户的。当前沿问题需要来自环境的事实(文件系统、工具等)时,派一个子代理去查;不要问用户任何你自己能查到的东西。不要阻塞等待:正在进行的探查是一个未解决的前提,只有它下游的问题需要等子代理回报;现在就把前沿其余部分问完。决策是用户的:把每个决策摆给他们,然后等待。

当前沿为空时,会话结束:设计树的每条分支都已遍历,没有任何东西被默默假设。在用户确认你们达成共识之前,不要付诸行动。

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. 10d ago First seen · 29 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 99004d0d6747

Subscribe to this mod's changes

grilling is a skill published in the GitHub repository devcxl/mattpocock-skills-zh (331 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 483 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.