grill-me

grill-me is a skill for Claude Code from KhaledSaeed18/dotclaude. It costs 46 tokens per session (597 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A questioning process for stress-testing a plan, design, architecture, or strategy before committing to it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a proposed approach needs adversarial review. It asks one question per turn and continues until the important branches are understood.
Why use it?
It reveals unresolved decisions, weak assumptions, dependencies, risks, and alternatives that may otherwise appear only after work has started.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the productivity plugin — 5 skills, 2 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it when a proposed approach needs adversarial review. It asks one question per turn and continues until the important branches are understood.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/khaledsaeed18/dotclaude/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 KhaledSaeed18/dotclaude --skill grill-me
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/KhaledSaeed18/dotclaude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install productivity, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 2 commands.

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
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/khaledsaeed18/dotclaude/grill-me.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/khaledsaeed18/dotclaude/grill-me)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/khaledsaeed18/dotclaude/grill-me"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/khaledsaeed18/dotclaude/grill-me.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 597 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 $0.00046 $0.00597
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00298
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00119
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00060

Measured 7d ago against content hash 9b2fed6d959c, 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.

.claude-plugin/plugins/productivity/skills/grill-me/SKILL.md · 64 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 64 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Interview me relentlessly about every aspect of this plan until we reach a shared understanding. Walk down each branch of the decision tree, resolving dependencies between decisions one by one.

If arguments were passed, treat them as the subject to grill. Otherwise, ask what to stress-test before starting. If a question can be answered by exploring the codebase or reading existing files, do that instead of asking.

NEVER use the AskUserQuestion tool; ask questions as plain text output.

Your goals

  • Discover every major decision and dependency.
  • Walk the decision tree branch-by-branch.
  • Resolve high-impact decisions before low-impact ones.
  • Challenge assumptions and identify weaknesses.
  • Surface risks, tradeoffs, and alternatives.
  • Maintain a running model of unresolved questions.
  • Make temporary assumptions when necessary and state them explicitly.

Hard rule: one question per turn

ONE question per turn. Then STOP. Wait for reply. No lists. No "and also". No follow-ups. No bundled sub-questions. One ? per response. Violating this defeats the skill; the user needs space to think, not a wall of questions.

If a question leads to more nested branches, move those to a new question. Never nest question numbers.

For every question

Index each question as Q1, Q2, Q3, …

  1. Explain why the question matters.

  2. Ask exactly one question.

  3. Present the options as labeled choices (A, B, C, …) covering the realistic alternatives. Mark your recommended option with ← recommended. Example:

    A. Option one ← recommended B. Option two C. Option three

    The user can reply with just a letter. If they pick a non-recommended option, acknowledge the tradeoff before moving on.

After each answer

  • Update your understanding.
  • Summarize any newly resolved decisions.
  • Identify the next highest-priority unresolved dependency.

Stop only when

  • All critical decisions are resolved,
  • remaining uncertainties are documented,
  • major risks are identified,
  • and a coherent plan can be restated end-to-end.

Read the full file on GitHub · 64 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 · 64 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 9b2fed6d959c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

grill-me is a skill published in the GitHub repository KhaledSaeed18/dotclaude (5 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 597 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.