drift: Skill for Claude Code

.github/skills/grill-me/SKILL.md

grill-me is a skill for Claude Code from mick-gsk/drift. It costs 49 tokens per session (122 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of cross-examine, MIT.

An interview-style guide that asks questions about a plan or design one at a time until the important decisions and dependencies are clear. It can also suggest a recommended answer for each question.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for stress-testing technical plans and designs, resolving decision branches, and building shared understanding before coding.
Why use it?
It exposes unresolved choices and weak assumptions before implementation begins. When the codebase can answer a question, it directs the agent to inspect it instead of asking the user.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

This is mick-gsk/drift's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on drift itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything drift configures →

Part of the drift plugin — 31 skills, 17 agents shipped together

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to mick-gsk/drift. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mick-gsk/drift/main/.github/skills/grill-me/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mick-gsk/drift

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install drift, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 31 skills, 17 agents.

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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 122 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 92% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00049 $0.00122
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00061
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00024
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00012

Measured 9d ago against content hash 74147eb6010a, 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.

Origin

This is a copy

92% identical to cross-examine — 2 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.github/skills/grill-me/SKILL.md · 11 lines

What it actually says

Interview me relentlessly about every aspect of this plan until we reach a shared understanding. Walk down each branch of the design tree, resolving dependencies between decisions one-by-one. For each question, provide your recommended answer.

Ask the questions one at a time.

If a question can be answered by exploring the codebase, explore the codebase instead.

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 · 11 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 74147eb6010a

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grill-me is a skill published in the GitHub repository mick-gsk/drift (15 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 122 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 92% identical to cross-examine, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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