grill

A guided question-and-answer skill used before creating a project dossier, a structured file describing the work to be done. It separates facts that can be looked up from choices that the operator must decide.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before scaffolding a dossier when the goal needs clarification. It records sourced facts, decisions, pending questions, and confirmation details.
Why use it?
It prevents vague requirements from being turned into an incomplete or misleading project plan.

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/raisedadead/claude-code-plugins/grill
Any agent
npx skills add raisedadead/claude-code-plugins --skill grill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/raisedadead/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 140 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,451 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00140 $0.01451
Opus 5 $0.00070 $0.00726
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00290
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00145

Measured 2d ago against content hash f2f3b03e06ea, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

grill 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.

plugins/dossier/skills/grill/SKILL.md · 99 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 99 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ds:grill — interrogate before you scaffold

A vague goal yields vague tasks. This formalises ds:new step 2's "clarify before freezing" into a bounded interrogation: facts get looked up, decisions get asked, and the output is an artifact ds:new consumes without re-asking.

Inputs

  • <slug> — dossier slug this grill feeds (kebab-case, same rules as ds:new).
  • --resume — reopen an incomplete artifact; open frontier nodes resurface.

Artifact

.scratchpad/dossier/.grill/<YYYY-MM-DD>-<slug>.md — dated at grill START. ds:new rediscovers it by SLUG (newest artifact wins), so a grill spanning days (--resume, pending-external waits) still gates the scaffold. On consume, ds:new stamps a CONSUMED: <dossier-dir-key> line into the artifact, so one grill feeds one dossier and a collision-bumped slug (<slug>-2) starts fresh.

FACT: <statement> cite=<file|command|url>
DECISION: <question> recommended=<x> answer=<operator verbatim>
DECISION: <question> recommended=<x> answer=pending-external → <questionnaire path>
FRONTIER: empty | empty-except-external n=<k>
CONFIRMED: <ISO timestamp> operator="<verbatim confirmation>"
CONSUMED: <dossier-dir-key>          (stamped by ds:new, never by grill)

Footer lines are the machine-checked half: hooks/lib-assert-grill.sh exits non-zero on a half-grilled slug. No hook runs it — ds:new invoking the script and refusing on its exit is model-judgment, the same split as the tiger route: the verdict is computed, arriving at it is not.

One entry per paragraph — blank line between every FACT/DECISION/footer line. Markdown formatters join adjacent bare lines into one paragraph, which un-anchors the ^FRONTIER:/^CONFIRMED: greps and turns a complete artifact into a false "incomplete" (the failure class FORMAT.md §11 solves for §S).

Steps

0. Detect host env

Per ADAPTERS.md. An absent adapter is a skip.

1. Build the tree

Read what the operator has said so far plus the repo state (existing dossiers, git log, configs). Tag every open node:

Read the full file on GitHub · 99 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. 2d ago First seen · 99 lines · 140 tokens per session scan A f2f3b03e06ea

Subscribe to this mod's changes

grill is a skill published in the GitHub repository raisedadead/claude-code-plugins (2 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed ISC. It adds 140 tokens to every session and 1,451 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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