grill-with-docs

A structured interview that sharpens a plan or design while recording the resulting decisions in architecture records and a glossary.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to clarify system concepts, ask focused design questions, and create or update project documentation as agreement develops.
Why use it?
It helps turn uncertain discussions into documented terms and decisions that the project can refer back to.

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/jimmypaolini/codebase/grill-with-docs
Any agent
npx skills add JimmyPaolini/codebase --skill grill-with-docs
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JimmyPaolini/codebase

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 60 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00030 $0.00060
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00030
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00012
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00006

Measured yesterday against content hash 7de372c13488, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 yesterday.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to grill-with-docs — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.agents/skills/grill-with-docs/SKILL.md · 8 lines

What it actually says

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

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. yesterday First seen · 8 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 7de372c13488

Subscribe to this mod's changes

grill-with-docs is a skill published in the GitHub repository JimmyPaolini/codebase (0 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 60 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to grill-with-docs, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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