caudal: Skill for Codex

.agents/skills/grilling/SKILL.md

grilling is a skill for Codex from RookieCol/caudal. It costs 38 tokens per session (172 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of grilling, MIT.

A question-by-question interview for testing a plan, decision, or idea before acting on it. It follows dependencies between decisions and waits for the user's answer before continuing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to examine a product idea, technical plan, or important decision in depth. It is useful when several choices depend on one another and you want a shared understanding before implementation.
Why use it?
It exposes missing assumptions, unresolved choices, and possible edge cases before they become code or rework. It keeps decisions with the user while the agent helps structure the discussion.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

This is RookieCol/caudal's own configuration. It tells Codex how to work on caudal itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything caudal configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to RookieCol/caudal. 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/RookieCol/caudal/main/.agents/skills/grilling/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/RookieCol/caudal

Made for: 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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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 172 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 $0.00038 $0.00172
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00086
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00034
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00017

Measured 6d ago against content hash 44331dda57f4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, 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 6d 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 grilling — 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.

.agents/skills/grilling/SKILL.md · 13 lines

What it actually says

Interview me relentlessly about every aspect of this until we reach a shared understanding. Walk down each branch of the decision tree, resolving dependencies between decisions one-by-one. For each question, provide your recommended answer.

Ask the questions one at a time, waiting for feedback on each question before continuing. Asking multiple questions at once is bewildering.

If a fact can be found by exploring the environment (filesystem, tools, etc.), look it up rather than asking me. The decisions, though, are mine — put each one to me and wait for my answer.

Do not act on it until I confirm we have reached a shared understanding.

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 6d ago First seen · 13 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 44331dda57f4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

grilling is a skill published in the GitHub repository RookieCol/caudal (0 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 172 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to grilling, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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