grill

grill is a skill for Claude Code from escoffier-labs/skillet. It costs 110 tokens per session (1,425 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review process for technical writing aimed at skeptical audiences such as Hacker News and Lobsters. It checks claims, sources, tone, and likely objections before publication.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to harden blog posts, technical writeups, project stories, and Show HN submissions before sharing them with a technical audience.
Why use it?
It helps prevent unsupported details, exaggerated language, and unanswered technical criticisms from weakening a post.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the skillet plugin — 39 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to harden blog posts, technical writeups, project stories, and Show HN submissions before sharing them with a technical audience.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/escoffier-labs/skillet/grill
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 escoffier-labs/skillet --skill grill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/escoffier-labs/skillet

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skillet, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 39 skills, 1 hook.

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

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/escoffier-labs/skillet/grill"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/escoffier-labs/skillet/grill/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 grill

Your own site · 80×15
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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 1,425 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 $0.01425
Opus 5 $0.00055 $0.00713
Sonnet 5 $0.00022 $0.00285
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00143

Measured 10d ago against content hash 426277d6d29e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

grill 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/grill-scan.sh, tests/test-grill-scan.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skillet/skills/grill/SKILL.md · 66 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 66 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

grill

On Hacker News and Lobsters the top comment is usually someone who has done the exact thing you wrote about. Grilling is the pass that gets a post ready to be read by that person: every claim sourced or flagged, the voice de-hyped, the story real instead of impressive, and the obvious objections already answered. You are not writing for the upvote. You are writing for the skeptic who has been here before.

Core principle: a fabricated specific is the fastest way to lose the thread to the one reader who knows. Flag what you cannot verify; never dress a gap as confidence.

The pass (run in order)

  1. Voice: kill the underdog. Strip the effort-proving "I did X, I did Y, I opened the chassis, I ran the cabling" cadence. The byline already says you did the work; arguing it reads as insecure. Tell the story and let the specifics carry it. Cut sentences that exist only for rhythm or motivation ("That is the job.", "future pain with confidence.").

  2. Slop: strip the AI tells and empty hedges. Run scripts/grill-scan.sh <file> for the mechanical hits (slop vocabulary, hedge phrases, em dashes, the rhythmic "That is X." tic), then read by eye for the rest. The scan is a floor, not the check.

  3. Facts: source every number, price, date, version, and third-party claim, or flag it. For anything you cannot verify against a primary source, leave a literal [CONFIRM: what's needed] marker in the draft. Do not invent a plausible config value, log line, or figure to fill the gap. Look facts up yourself before asking the human; only escalate the ones that survive a real search.

  4. Right-number check. A fact can be genuinely real and still be the wrong fact for this post. Confirm the claim matches the specific setup, not just that the value exists somewhere (quoting the full-bundle list price when the project ran the base edition; citing a benchmark from different hardware). Verified-real is not verified-relevant.

  5. Freshness check. Vendor pricing, policies, and "minimums" get reversed, and versions move. Date-check any claim about how a third party behaves and note when it was true, so a since-changed fact reads as history, not error.

Read the full file on GitHub · 66 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 10d ago First seen · 66 lines · 110 tokens per session scan A 426277d6d29e

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grill is a skill published in the GitHub repository escoffier-labs/skillet (4 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 110 tokens to every session and 1,425 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 2026-08-31.

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