grill-me

grill-me is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jackfranklin/dotfiles. It costs 49 tokens per session (406 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An interview process for examining a plan or software design through detailed questions. It has a discovery mode for exploring an uncertain idea and a refinement mode for making a defined proposal implementable.

In plain words
What is it for?
Stress-testing plans, exploring design alternatives, resolving decision branches, and clarifying bug reports or short specifications.
Why use it?
It exposes unclear requirements, unresolved choices, and weak assumptions before work begins.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jackfranklin/dotfiles/grill-me
Any agent
npx skills add jackfranklin/dotfiles --skill grill-me
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jackfranklin/dotfiles

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 406 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00049 $0.00406
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00203
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00081
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00041

Measured 5d ago against content hash d07f0513f646, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 5d 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.

claude/skills/grill-me/SKILL.md · 21 lines

What it actually says

Choose the Interview Mode

Before asking substantive questions, determine whether the user wants Discovery or Refinement mode. If their request makes the mode clear, proceed without asking; otherwise, ask them to choose:

  1. Discovery mode — use when the user is uncertain about the problem or wants to explore alternatives. Interview them relentlessly about the plan, explore viable design branches, resolve dependencies one by one, and provide a recommended answer for each question.
  2. Refinement mode — use when the user has a bug report, issue, or mini-spec and wants to make it implementable. Treat the stated requirements as a strict boundary. Ask only questions needed to remove ambiguity, verify correctness, or choose among solutions that satisfy the stated scope. Prefer the smallest understandable solution and existing patterns over new abstractions or subsystems. Do not introduce adjacent features, cleanup, generalization, or speculative future-proofing; identify those separately as out of scope if relevant.

Examples: “explore options” selects Discovery mode; “flesh out this bug/spec” selects Refinement mode.

Ask questions one at a time. In either mode, stop when the user has a clear, bounded direction; do not continue exploring merely for completeness.

If a question can be answered by exploring the codebase, explore the codebase instead.

Repository glossary: At the start of the session, check whether .jai/glossary.md exists in the current repository. If it does, read it and use it as context. It is a stable glossary of canonical repository terminology and concepts, not a record of plan decisions, open questions, or this session's outcomes. Do not modify it during a grilling session.

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. 5d ago First seen · 21 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A d07f0513f646

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grill-me is a skill published in the GitHub repository jackfranklin/dotfiles (254 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 406 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.

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