issue-flow: Skill for Cursor

.cursor/skills/grill-me/SKILL.md

grill-me is a skill for Cursor from jepegit/issue-flow. It costs 73 tokens per session (641 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A planning interview that asks detailed questions about a proposed plan or design until its major decisions are settled.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to stress-test a plan, resolve design choices one at a time, and prepare a clearer issue plan.
Why use it?
It uncovers hidden assumptions, alternatives, dependencies, and edge cases before they become code or a written plan.

Skill for Cursor

Written for Cursor: installed under .cursor/.

This is jepegit/issue-flow's own configuration. It tells Cursor how to work on issue-flow itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything issue-flow configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to jepegit/issue-flow. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jepegit/issue-flow/main/.cursor/skills/grill-me/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jepegit/issue-flow

Made for: Cursor.

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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 641 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 $0.00073 $0.00641
Opus 5.5 $0.00029 $0.00256
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00128
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00064

Measured 8d ago against content hash 5767aa6aab7f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 8d 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.

.cursor/skills/grill-me/SKILL.md · 58 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 58 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Grill me — relentless planning interview

Interview the user about every aspect of the plan until you reach a shared, unambiguous understanding. Walk down each branch of the design tree, resolving dependencies between decisions one at a time. The goal is to surface hidden assumptions and edge cases before they get encoded in code or written into .issueflows/01-current-issues/issue<N>_plan.md.

When to use

  • The user asks to be grilled / stress-tested ("grill me", "poke holes in this").
  • During /iflow-plan, when grilling is active (see Activation below), to pressure-test the approach before the plan file is drafted.

How to grill

  • One question at a time. Ask exactly one, then wait for the answer before moving to the next branch.
  • Always recommend an answer. For each question, give your recommended option and a one-line rationale, so the user can accept quickly or push back.
  • Explore before asking. If a question can be answered by reading the code, the issue text, or .issueflows/04-designs-and-guides/, explore first and confirm what you found instead of asking the user to do your homework.
  • Follow the decision tree. Resolve upstream decisions before the ones that depend on them; let earlier answers prune later branches.
  • Stay on scope. Grill the issue at hand. Park genuinely separate concerns as follow-up notes rather than expanding the interview indefinitely.
  • Know when to stop. End when every open branch is resolved (or explicitly deferred) and you can restate the plan without ambiguity. Summarize the agreed decisions so they can flow straight into the plan.

Activation

This skill is dormant by default: it engages only when the user asks for it ("grill me") or when a project turns it on for planning.

Turn it off again for the rest of a session with "stop grilling" or "normal mode". (To make grilling on by default during planning for this project, set grill_me_default = true under [issueflow] in .issueflows/config.toml and re-run issue-flow update.)

Read the full file on GitHub · 58 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. 8d ago Changed 5767aa6aab7f
  2. 1mo ago Changed 179c27ef104a
  3. 2mo ago First seen · 58 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A eebf8df68f8a

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grill-me is a skill published in the GitHub repository jepegit/issue-flow (4 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 641 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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