grill-me

grill-me is a skill for Claude Code from OutlineDriven/odin-gemini-cli-extension. It costs 83 tokens per session (1,972 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of grill-me, Apache-2.0.

A structured interview that challenges a software plan or design one decision at a time until the important choices and dependencies are clear.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps stress-test designs, resolve dependencies, and reach shared understanding of what should be built.
Why use it?
It exposes ambiguous assumptions and unresolved branches before implementation begins, reducing the chance of building from a misunderstood plan.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Good fit It helps stress-test designs, resolve dependencies, and reach shared understanding of what should be built.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/outlinedriven/odin-gemini-cli-extension/grill-me
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add OutlineDriven/odin-gemini-cli-extension --skill grill-me
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OutlineDriven/odin-gemini-cli-extension

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 83 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,972 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 100% 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 $0.00083 $0.01972
Opus 5 $0.00042 $0.00986
Sonnet 5 $0.00017 $0.00394
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00197

Measured 9d ago against content hash f9dd03f91837, 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

100% identical to grill-me — 0 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.

skills/grill-me/SKILL.md · 145 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 145 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Adversarial interview. Walk every branch of the design tree; resolve dependencies one decision at a time; recommend an answer per question.

Modality disambiguation [LOAD-BEARING]

Three adjacent skills — pick the right one before invoking.

Skill Shape Anchor Output Use when
clarifying-question protocol VS-shaped — sample N intent hypotheses, rank, challenge each, then batch clarifying questions None — pre-planning ambiguity Survivor set + clarified scope User intent is itself unclear
this skill Linear adversarial interview, recommendation per question None — design under test is the only anchor Shared understanding, decision tree resolved User has a plan/design and wants it stress-tested
domain-model grilling Adversarial interview gated on documented domain language CONTEXT.md + docs/adr/ Updated CONTEXT.md and/or new ADR Project has documented domain language to honour

Rule of thumb: intent unclear → clarifying-question protocol. Plan exists, no domain rubric → this skill. Plan exists, domain rubric required → domain-model grilling.

Process

1. Anchor on the design under test

Confirm what the plan is in one sentence. If the user's pitch is too thin to interrogate, pivot to a clarifying-question protocol instead.

2. Walk the decision tree

For every fork in the design — scope, boundary, ordering, error surface, contract, naming, public-API shape, irreversibility — ask one question. Order by dependency: parents before children.

For each question:

  • State the question precisely (one fact at a time).
  • Recommend an answer with a one-sentence rationale.
  • Wait for the user; never proceed on assumed answers.

3. Explore the codebase before asking when possible

If a question can be resolved by reading the code, read it instead of asking.

  • Discovery: fd -e <ext> <path>.
  • Structural search: ast-grep run -p '<pattern>' -l <lang> -C 3.
  • Lexical search: git --no-pager grep -n -C 3 '<pattern>'.
  • Targeted read: bat -P -p -n -r START:END <path>.
  • Dispatch an Explore agent when the question spans >5 files or >2 directories.

Read the full file on GitHub · 145 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. 9d ago First seen · 145 lines · 83 tokens per session scan A f9dd03f91837

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grill-me is a skill published in the GitHub repository OutlineDriven/odin-gemini-cli-extension (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 83 tokens to every session and 1,972 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to grill-me, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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