An interviewing aid that asks questions one at a time to examine every branch of a plan or design until the decisions and requirements are understood.

Use it to stress-test a technical plan or design; it can inspect the codebase when a question can be answered there.

It helps expose missing choices, dependencies, and unresolved assumptions before implementation begins.

How mzlogin/config-files configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to mzlogin/config-files. 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/mzlogin/config-files/main/.claude/skills/grill-me/SKILL.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mzlogin/config-files

Made for: Claude Code.

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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/mzlogin/config-files/grill-me/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/mzlogin/config-files/grill-me)

Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00049	$0.00122
Opus 5.5	$0.00020	$0.00049
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00010	$0.00024
Haiku 4.5	$0.00005	$0.00012

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 74147eb6010a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 2mo 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.

.claude/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.

2mo 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 mzlogin/config-files (23 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 122 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

Planning dotfiles

grill-me next to 6 skills from other repositories
Mod	Type	Stars	Last push	Licence	Scan	Tokens	Works with
grill-memzlogin/config-files	Skill	23	3mo ago	MIT	A	49	Claude Code
merge-prjoshukraine/dotfiles	Skill	429	today	MIT	A	23	Claude Code
bootstrap-prdjoshukraine/dotfiles	Skill	429	today	MIT	A	25	Claude Code
gui-debugnatsukium/dotfiles	Skill	106	today	CC0-1.0	A	113	Claude Code, Codex
auditdarkroomengineering/cc-settings	Skill	52	yesterday	MIT	A	69	Claude Code
vibesebastienrousseau/dotfiles	Skill	82	today	Apache-2.0	A	137	Claude Code
taskgoithinkihaveacat/dotfiles	Skill	48	today	Apache-2.0	A	71	Claude Code, Codex

config-files: Skill for Claude Code