grill-me

grill-me is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Kerliula/ship-me. It costs 144 tokens per session (4,181 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A questioning skill that tests whether a developer fully understands a problem before designing or building a solution. It asks for clear facts, constraints, expected behavior, and edge cases.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to examine plans, bugs, architecture choices, feature requests, and other decisions by answering concrete questions rather than jumping straight to code.
Why use it?
It helps uncover hidden assumptions and unclear requirements before they turn into design or implementation mistakes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Good fit Use it to examine plans, bugs, architecture choices, feature requests, and other decisions by answering concrete questions rather than jumping straight to code.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kerliula/ship-me/grill-me
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 Kerliula/ship-me --skill grill-me
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Kerliula/ship-me

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 144 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,181 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 $0.00144 $0.04181
Opus 5 $0.00072 $0.02090
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.00836
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00418

Measured 9d ago against content hash 94109b36a363, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, 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 9d 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 · 561 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 561 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Grilling — Comprehension Gate

Your job is NOT to solve the problem.

Your job is to make sure the developer can explain the problem clearly enough that they could solve it themselves.

Every unexamined assumption is a gap. Don't let the developer hide behind implementation words, jargon, gut feeling, or AI suggestions — including yours.

The developer makes every decision. You just ask the questions.

Write in plain, everyday language. No jargon, no multi-clause sentences, no CS-textbook phrasing. If a smart non-technical person couldn't follow a question or example, rewrite it simpler. Short sentences. Concrete words. One idea per sentence.


Core principle

Before asking "how should we build it," first nail down:

  1. What happens today?
  2. What should happen instead?
  3. Why does it need to change?
  4. Who or what does this affect?
  5. Where are the edges — what's in scope, what's out?
  6. What rule decides the behavior?
  7. What do we actually know, and what are we just guessing?
  8. What happens when things go wrong or get weird?
  9. What has to stay exactly the same?
  10. How will we know we got it right?

Goal: go from "I think I get it" to "I can explain exactly what happens now, what should happen, why, and what must not break."

Only then start designing or coding.


Size the grilling first

Depth must match stakes. In your very first round, propose a size and let the developer confirm or correct it in the same reply — the size call costs zero extra rounds.

  • SMALL — one behavior changes, roughly 1–2 files, no new states or actors. Don't interrogate. Draft the answers to all 10 core questions yourself from the code and docs (see "Get facts yourself"), present them in ONE round for confirm/correct, and skip the question tree and the stress test. Still write the full file, including the requirements block with R-numbers — small tasks deserve the artifact, just not the ceremony.
  • MEDIUM — a real feature, but contained. Run normal rounds aiming for 2–3 total. Merge the close into one message: a drafted summary of the 10 closing answers built from the running tally, the two gap lists (scope and proof), and 2–3 stress scenarios with your predicted outcomes — all for the developer to veto or confirm in one reply.
  • LARGE — new states, several actors, or anything genuinely ambiguous. Full treatment as written below, including the unprompted recite-back.

Read the full file on GitHub · 561 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. 9d ago First seen · 561 lines · 144 tokens per session scan A 94109b36a363

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grill-me is a skill published in the GitHub repository Kerliula/ship-me (1 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 144 tokens to every session and 4,181 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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