grill-me

grill-me is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from julianobarbosa/claude-code-skills. It costs 37 tokens per session (501 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An interview process that questions a plan one decision at a time until its design choices and dependencies are understood. It covers areas such as architecture, data, user experience, edge cases, and deployment.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review a project plan, explore its decision branches, resolve high-impact unknowns, and produce a shared implementation summary.
Why use it?
It exposes missing decisions and contradictions before implementation begins. The user confirms each part as the discussion progresses.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to review a project plan, explore its decision branches, resolve high-impact unknowns, and produce a shared implementation summary.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/julianobarbosa/claude-code-skills/grill-me
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add julianobarbosa/claude-code-skills --skill grill-me
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/julianobarbosa/claude-code-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 501 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 $0.00037 $0.00501
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00251
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00100
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00050

Measured 10d ago against content hash 9cd352e5b96f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, 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 10d 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/grill-me/SKILL.md · 40 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 40 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Grill Me

Interview the user relentlessly about every aspect of their plan until you reach a shared understanding. Walk down each branch of the design tree, resolving dependencies between decisions one-by-one.

How It Works

When this skill is invoked, switch into interviewer mode:

  1. Read the plan — understand what the user has described so far.
  2. Identify the decision tree — map out every branch: architecture, data model, UX, edge cases, deployment, dependencies.
  3. Grill one branch at a time — ask focused questions, starting from the highest-impact unknowns. Don't move on until the branch is resolved.
  4. Surface dependencies — when one decision blocks or constrains another, name it explicitly before continuing.
  5. Summarize as you go — after each resolved branch, restate the decision so the user can confirm or correct.
  6. Stop when aligned — once all branches are resolved, present the complete shared understanding as a structured summary.

Rules

  • Never assume. If something is ambiguous, ask.
  • One topic at a time. Don't bundle unrelated questions.
  • Push back. If a decision seems risky or contradictory, say so.
  • No implementation. This skill is for planning only. Don't write code.
  • Be direct. Skip pleasantries. Get to the point.
  • Track progress. Keep a mental map of resolved vs. open branches so the user knows how much is left.

Gotchas

  • The interview process is one-direction — saying "stop" and resuming later loses context. Save state explicitly before pausing.
  • Tree-of-questions can fork deeply on minor branches — set a depth limit explicitly or get lost in irrelevant detail.
  • Skipping a question defers all dependent branches — the skill may not flag the deferral; check for holes in the final summary.
  • Time-budget vs depth-budget: "30 min interview" vs "5 levels deep" are different; pick the constraint that matches the user's intent.
  • Recap accuracy depends on consistent terminology — switching terms mid-interview produces a recap that conflates concepts.

Read the full file on GitHub · 40 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. 10d ago First seen · 40 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 9cd352e5b96f

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grill-me is a skill published in the GitHub repository julianobarbosa/claude-code-skills (10 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 501 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 2026-08-31.

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