grill-me

grill-me is a skill for Claude Code from ericgandrade/claude-superskills. It costs 70 tokens per session (806 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided questioning skill that examines a plan or design through repeated Socratic questions, meaning questions that uncover assumptions and decisions step by step. It activates only when the user explicitly says “grill me” or “me grille.”

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to pressure-test a plan, architecture, or design by resolving each branch of its decisions one at a time.
Why use it?
It helps expose unanswered choices and hidden assumptions before work begins. The strict trigger prevents it from starting during ordinary requests for feedback or review.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the claude-superskills plugin — 18 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to pressure-test a plan, architecture, or design by resolving each branch of its decisions one at a time.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-superskills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 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-me

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for grill-me

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 806 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 $0.00070 $0.00806
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.00403
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00161
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00081

Measured 11d ago against content hash 02d810c3616a, 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 11d 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 · 86 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 86 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Grill Me

Purpose

Stress-test a plan, design, or idea through relentless Socratic questioning. Walk down every branch of the decision tree, resolve dependencies between decisions one-by-one, and reach a shared understanding where no assumption is left unchallenged.

When to Use

Trigger ONLY when the user explicitly uses the word "grill" — e.g.:

  • "grill me on this"
  • "grill me on my plan / architecture / design"
  • "I want you to grill me before I present"
  • PT: "me grille sobre esse plano"

Do NOT trigger for synonyms or near-misses, even when the intent seems similar:

  • "stress-test this" → not grill-me
  • "poke holes in my plan" → not grill-me
  • "play devil's advocate" → not grill-me
  • "challenge my assumptions" → not grill-me
  • "pressure-test this" → not grill-me
  • "review this and tell me what's wrong" → not grill-me
  • "give me feedback" → not grill-me

Workflow

Step 0 — Understand the Subject

Read the plan, design, or idea the user has provided. If working in a codebase, explore relevant files before asking questions that can be answered by reading the code.

Step 1 — Build the Decision Tree (silent)

Before asking the first question, mentally map:

  • Core decisions already made (what's locked in)
  • Branches that are open or unresolved
  • Dependencies between decisions
  • Unstated assumptions worth surfacing

Step 2 — Interview Relentlessly

Ask one question at a time. For each question:

  1. Ask the question
  2. Provide your recommended answer with brief reasoning
  3. Wait for the user's response before moving on

Work through branches systematically — exhaust one thread before opening another. When an answer reveals a new sub-question, follow it immediately.

Question types to cycle through:

  • Scope: What's in? What's explicitly out?
  • Dependencies: What does this depend on that isn't defined yet?
  • Failure modes: What breaks first under load / edge cases / bad inputs?
  • Alternatives rejected: Why this approach and not X?
  • Success criteria: How will you know this worked?
  • Reversibility: What's hard to undo? What's the rollback plan?
  • Ownership: Who owns each part when something goes wrong?

Read the full file on GitHub · 86 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. 11d ago First seen · 86 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A 02d810c3616a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

grill-me is a skill published in the GitHub repository ericgandrade/claude-superskills (75 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 806 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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