grill-with-docs

grill-with-docs is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from FradSer/dotclaude. It costs 48 tokens per session (199 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided review workflow that challenges a plan or design through repeated questions and records clarified terms and decisions in project documents. An ADR is a short record of an architecture decision and its reasons.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to stress-test a technical plan or design and update the project's glossary and decision records as the discussion settles.
Why use it?
It exposes unanswered questions and hidden trade-offs before implementation, while leaving a durable record instead of relying on conversation history.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the mattpocock plugin — 46 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to stress-test a technical plan or design and update the project's glossary and decision records as the discussion settles.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fradser/dotclaude/grill-with-docs
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 FradSer/dotclaude --skill grill-with-docs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/FradSer/dotclaude

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install mattpocock, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 46 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-with-docs

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-with-docs

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 199 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 $0.00199
Opus 5.5 $0.00019 $0.00080
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00040
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00020

Measured 23d ago against content hash c97b0b0d8e87, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

grill-with-docs 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 23d 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.

mattpocock/skills/engineering/grill-with-docs/SKILL.md · 12 lines

What it actually says

Call the Skill tool twice, for "mattpocock:grilling" and "mattpocock:domain-modeling".

CRITICAL: Grill with the docs skills loaded

Run the /mattpocock:grilling session with the /mattpocock:domain-modeling skill active. Every sharpened term and locked decision lands in CONTEXT.md or an ADR as it crystallises — the paper trail is what distinguishes this skill from /mattpocock:grill-me. Interview questions go through the AskUserQuestion tool, one per call, as /mattpocock:grilling dictates.

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. 23d ago First seen · 12 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A c97b0b0d8e87

Subscribe to this mod's changes

grill-with-docs is a skill published in the GitHub repository FradSer/dotclaude (594 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 199 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 2026-09-24.

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