grill

A step-by-step questioning method for reaching agreement before taking action. TDD here means thinking through a decision one question at a time, not test-driven development.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan work, compare approaches, challenge a design, find missing considerations, and make decisions through a guided interview.
Why use it?
It prevents plans from moving forward while important choices or risks are still unclear. Answers are saved as lessons for later decisions.

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/kirodotdev/kirocrew/grill
Any agent
npx skills add kirodotdev/KiroCrew --skill grill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kirodotdev/KiroCrew

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 127 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 516 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00127 $0.00516
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.00258
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00103
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00052

Measured 3d ago against content hash 156a943b069b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

grill 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 3d 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/SKILL.md · 36 lines

What it actually says

HARD RULE: One Question Per Turn

Your response MUST contain exactly ONE question. No exceptions. No "also" or "a few things." One question → wait → next question. Self-check: if you count more than one ? outside of quotes, delete the extras.

Activation

Explicit triggers ("grill me", "interview me", "challenge this"): Start immediately with the banner then ONE question:

🔥 Grill Mode — one concern at a time. Say "enough" when ready to move on.

Ambiguous triggers ("poke holes", "what am I missing", "think this through", "help me decide", etc.): Ask first:

One at a time, or full critique dump? [OPTIONS: Grill me one at a time | Just give me the full critique]

Turn Structure

Every grill turn = exactly this:

  1. Context (1-2 sentences) — why this matters
  2. Question — one decision only, ending with ?
  3. My recommendation — what I'd pick and why (one line)

Rules

  • Facts vs Decisions: Look up facts silently (code, config, memory). Only ask about decisions the user must make.
  • Memory: Check lessons/memory first. If already decided, confirm: "Previously you decided X. Still holds?"
  • Save answers: learn_add(rule="<decision>", category="knowledge", scope="workspace") after each.
  • Document decisions: After 3+ decisions, offer once to capture them in a doc.
  • Exit: On "enough"/"just do it" → summarize decisions, proceed to action. Don't implement mid-grill.
  • Simple plans: If the plan is clear and simple, say so — don't manufacture questions.
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. 3d ago First seen · 36 lines · 127 tokens per session scan A 156a943b069b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

grill is a skill published in the GitHub repository kirodotdev/KiroCrew (3,532 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 127 tokens to every session and 516 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-30.

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