grilling

grilling is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Pawel-Kica/claude-code-100. It costs 38 tokens per session (490 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of grilling, MIT.

A structured questioning process for examining a plan, decision, or idea by breaking it into connected choices.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to stress-test project plans, architecture choices, product ideas, and other decisions where you want a thorough review.
Why use it?
It exposes unanswered decisions and assumptions before they cause problems. The discussion proceeds in rounds, so later questions depend on earlier answers.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Good fit Use it to stress-test project plans, architecture choices, product ideas, and other decisions where you want a thorough review.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pawel-kica/claude-code-100/grilling
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 Pawel-Kica/claude-code-100 --skill grilling
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Pawel-Kica/claude-code-100

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 grilling

README.md
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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.

agentmods 80×15 button for grilling

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/pawel-kica/claude-code-100/grilling"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/pawel-kica/claude-code-100/grilling.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 490 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 84% 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 $0.00038 $0.00490
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00245
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00098
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00049

Measured 9d ago against content hash 20549de0d722, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

grilling 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

84% identical to grilling — 24 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/thinking/grilling/SKILL.md · 33 lines

What it actually says

Interview the user relentlessly until you reach a shared understanding. Map this as a design tree: every decision branches into the decisions that hang off it.

Work the tree in rounds. The frontier is every decision whose prerequisites are already settled — the questions you can ask now without guessing at answers you haven't heard yet. Ask the whole frontier in one round: number each question and give your recommended answer. Then wait for the user's answers before the next round.

Each question should be formatted like so:

❓ **Q1** - **<question title>**: <question body, might be multiple paragraphs>

(a) <first option>
(b) <second option>
(c) <third option>

➡️ <your recommended answer>

Each round the user answers reshapes the tree — settled decisions push the frontier outward and unblock questions that depended on them. Recompute the frontier and ask the next round. A question whose answer depends on another question still open in this round belongs to a later round, not this one.

Finding facts is your job, never the user's. When a frontier question needs a fact from the environment (filesystem, tools, etc.), dispatch a sub-agent to find it — don't ask the user for anything you could look up yourself. Don't block on it: a running exploration is an unsettled prerequisite, so only the questions downstream of it wait for the sub-agent to report — ask the rest of the frontier now. The decisions are the user's — put each to them and wait.

The session is done when the frontier is empty: every branch of the design tree visited, nothing left silently assumed. Do not act on it until the user confirms you have reached a shared understanding.

Internal Instructions

  • ALWAYS ask one question at a time.
  • NEVER use the AskUserQuestion tool. ALWAYS ask in plain text, in the format above.
  • ALWAYS put each option on its own line. NEVER write them in one sentence like Options: (a) foo; (b) bar; (c) baz. It is hard to read.
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 · 33 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 20549de0d722

Subscribe to this mod's changes

grilling is a skill published in the GitHub repository Pawel-Kica/claude-code-100 (2 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 490 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 84% identical to grilling, differing in 24 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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