the-grilling

the-grilling is a skill for Claude Code from kucherenko/gangsta. It costs 55 tokens per session (2,497 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A one-pass review process in which one worker proposes an idea, another challenges it, and a third revises it. It questions the goal one question at a time before discussing the proposed design.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after initial research to test an idea, challenge its scope and assumptions, and produce a revised proposal.
Why use it?
It helps expose weak assumptions and unclear goals before implementation begins, without getting stuck in repeated debate rounds.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions OpenCode.

Part of the gangsta plugin — 19 skills, 6 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it after initial research to test an idea, challenge its scope and assumptions, and produce a revised proposal.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kucherenko/gangsta/the-grilling
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 kucherenko/gangsta --skill the-grilling
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kucherenko/gangsta

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install gangsta, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills, 6 agents, 1 hook.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,497 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00055 $0.02497
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.01248
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00499
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00250

Measured 11d ago against content hash ecb85ce392df, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

the-grilling 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 11d 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/the-grilling/SKILL.md · 186 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 186 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

The Grilling: Adversarial Brainstorming

Overview

The Grilling is a single-pass Multi-Agent Debate. The Proposer proposes, the Devils-Advocate attacks (idea first, then proposal), the Synthesizer revises. There are NO rounds — each agent runs exactly once. The Don is interrogated one question at a time, never a list. The IDEA is grilled before the proposal.

Trigger

Invoked after the Don approves the Reconnaissance Dossier (Reconnaissance complete).

HARD RULES (non-negotiable)

  1. No rounds. Each agent — Proposer, Devils-Advocate, Synthesizer — runs exactly ONCE. Do not loop back. There is no Round 2.
  2. Idea first. The Devils-Advocate attacks the Don's objective (the IDEA) before attacking the proposal. The Don is grilled on the idea — framing, assumptions, scope, analogues from the Recon Dossier — before any architecture is proposed.
  3. One question at a time. Every interaction with the Don asks exactly ONE question. Wait for the answer before asking the next. This overrides any subagent output that bundles questions. See Don Interrogation Protocol below.
  4. No lists of questions. A message to the Don that contains 2+ distinct questions is a violation, even if they are numbered. Ask the most critical question first; only after it is answered, decide whether the next question is still needed.

The Protocol (single pass)

Phase A — Grill the IDEA

Before any proposal is built, the orchestrating agent grills the Don on the objective itself, drawing on the Recon Dossier (especially analogues, prior art, and the Constraint & Risk Survey in greenfield mode).

  1. The orchestrating agent reads the Recon Dossier and extracts every unresolved assumption, scope ambiguity, and analogue-comparison decision that the Don must make.
  2. Prioritize these questions: most critical to the idea's validity first (problem framing → hidden assumptions → scope → analogue choices).
  3. Ask the Don one question at a time. After each answer, decide whether the next planned question is still relevant — the Don's answer may resolve it, may obsolete it, or may surface a new, more urgent question.
  4. Continue until no critical idea-level question remains. The Don may also say "the idea is settled, move to architecture."

Read the full file on GitHub · 186 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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. 11d ago First seen · 186 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A ecb85ce392df

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the-grilling is a skill published in the GitHub repository kucherenko/gangsta (81 stars, last pushed 27d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 2,497 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.