grill-me

A structured interview process for examining a plan or design through its assumptions, alternatives, and dependencies. It asks questions one at a time and recommends an answer for each decision.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to stress-test a technical plan, product design, architecture, or other proposal until the important decisions are understood.
Why use it?
It exposes unresolved choices and weak assumptions before implementation begins, especially when several design decisions affect one another.

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/modernweb-dev/rocket/grill-me
Any agent
npx skills add modernweb-dev/rocket --skill grill-me
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/modernweb-dev/rocket

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00049 $0.00122
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00061
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00024
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00012

Measured 2d ago against content hash 74147eb6010a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 2d 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.

.agents/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. 2d ago First seen · 11 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 74147eb6010a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

grill-me is a skill published in the GitHub repository modernweb-dev/rocket (394 stars, last pushed 5d 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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