grill-me

grill-me is a skill for Claude Code from naimkatiman/continuous-improvement. It costs 65 tokens per session (1,265 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured interview that questions a coding plan until its scope, decisions and success conditions are clear. It asks one question at a time and checks the codebase when the answer can be found there.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to examine plans for features, performance work, RFCs or product requirements before writing code.
Why use it?
It exposes missing requirements and unresolved design choices before implementation begins, reducing rework caused by vague requests.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the continuous-improvement plugin — 27 skills, 6 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to examine plans for features, performance work, RFCs or product requirements before writing code.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/naimkatiman/continuous-improvement/grill-me
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 naimkatiman/continuous-improvement --skill grill-me
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/naimkatiman/continuous-improvement

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install continuous-improvement, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 27 skills, 6 hooks.

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.

agentmods badge for grill-me

README.md
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/naimkatiman/continuous-improvement/grill-me"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/naimkatiman/continuous-improvement/grill-me.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,265 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 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 $0.00065 $0.01265
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00633
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00253
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00127

Measured 8d ago against content hash f3a1b793ccbe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, 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 8d 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.

plugins/continuous-improvement/skills/grill-me/SKILL.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/grill-me — Interrogate the plan before executing it

Ported verbatim in behavior from mattpocock/skills productivity/grill-me (MIT, © 2026 Matt Pocock). Cold-storage snapshot at third-party/mattpocock-skills/skills/productivity/grill-me/SKILL.md; SHA pin in third-party/MANIFEST.md.

What this skill does

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

Ask questions one at a time.

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

When to fire it

  • The user has just stated a goal at a high level ("add auth", "speed up the API") with no spec underneath.
  • A /proceed-with-the-recommendation walk is about to start but the recommendation list itself is ambiguous about scope or success criteria.
  • An RFC, PRD, or plan doc is being drafted and the user wants pressure on the assumptions before writing it.
  • The user types "grill me", "stress-test this plan", or "interview me about X".
  • gateguard is firing because the agent does not have enough grounding to proceed safely on a Write/Edit/Bash — alignment is missing, not just facts.

How it differs from gateguard

gateguard is a tool-boundary gate that blocks Edit / Write / Bash until the agent provides concrete investigation (importers, schemas, user instruction). It catches the case where the agent thinks it knows enough to mutate state. grill-me is the conversational layer one floor above: it surfaces the missing decisions before any tool call would even be attempted. They compose:

Gap Caught by
Agent has no spec, no plan — about to invent one grill-me
Agent has a plan but specific branches are under-specified grill-me
Agent is about to Edit / Write / Bash without grounding gateguard
Plan exists, grounded, but the implementation drifts verification-loop, tdd-workflow

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 lines

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. 8d ago First seen · 67 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A f3a1b793ccbe

Subscribe to this mod's changes

grill-me is a skill published in the GitHub repository naimkatiman/continuous-improvement (7 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 1,265 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 2026-08-31.

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