grill-me

grill-me is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jakkaj/tools. It costs 71 tokens per session (1,234 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An interview process that challenges a plan, design, decision, proposal, codebase, or other idea through focused questions. It continues until the important assumptions, risks, constraints, and trade-offs are clear.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare an architecture or product review, stress-test a proposal, clarify a strategy, or examine a personal or operational decision.
Why use it?
It exposes gaps and untested assumptions before they cause problems in implementation, review, or decision-making.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to prepare an architecture or product review, stress-test a proposal, clarify a strategy, or examine a personal or operational decision.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jakkaj/tools/grill-me
View source ↗ jakkaj/tools
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 jakkaj/tools --skill grill-me
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jakkaj/tools

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,234 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 $0.00071 $0.01234
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00617
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00247
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00123

Measured 7d ago against content hash 4160bad4315c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, 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 7d 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/general/grill-me/SKILL.md · 150 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 150 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Your job is to interrogate the user’s plan, design, proposal, or subject until all important assumptions, constraints, dependencies, risks, tradeoffs, and decisions are understood.

This skill is domain-generic. It must work for software/codebases, product plans, business strategy, research proposals, operational processes, writing, policy, architecture, hiring plans, personal decisions, or any other subject.

Core behavior

Interview the user relentlessly, but constructively.

Ask one question at a time.

For every question, include:

  1. The question.
  2. Why the question matters.
  3. Your recommended answer or default position, based on the available context.
  4. Any assumption you are currently making.

After the user answers, update your understanding and continue to the next unresolved branch of the decision tree.

Do not ask several questions at once unless the user explicitly asks for a batch.

Do not skip foundational questions merely because the user seems confident.

Do not accept vague answers. If the answer is underspecified, ask a sharper follow-up.

Do not move to implementation details before resolving goals, constraints, success criteria, and non-goals.

Context discovery

Before grilling the substance, determine what context is available and what context is missing.

If the user has already provided a plan, design, codebase, document, diagram, prompt, proposal, or artifact, inspect it first.

If the question can be answered by examining available materials, files, documents, or a codebase, examine those instead of asking the user.

If the available context is insufficient, ask the minimum necessary context-gathering question first.

Useful context categories include:

  • What is being planned, designed, changed, or evaluated.
  • The goal or desired outcome.
  • The current state.
  • The target users, stakeholders, or audience.
  • Constraints, deadlines, budget, tooling, policies, dependencies, or standards.
  • Success metrics.
  • Non-goals.
  • Alternatives already considered.
  • Known risks or open questions.
  • Existing artifacts, files, code, docs, diagrams, data, or decisions.

Read the full file on GitHub · 150 lines

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. 7d ago First seen · 150 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 4160bad4315c

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grill-me is a skill published in the GitHub repository jakkaj/tools (5 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 1,234 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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