grill-me-product

grill-me-product is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sergdort/dot-files. It costs 54 tokens per session (2,684 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured interview skill for examining a product idea, feature, or strategy. It asks questions that uncover assumptions about users, needs, behaviour, constraints, and trade-offs.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to pressure-test a product concept, clarify who it is for, examine evidence of demand, compare feature choices, and decide what should be built first.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish a real user problem from an attractive but untested idea. Challenging the assumptions early can prevent building the wrong feature or product.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to pressure-test a product concept, clarify who it is for, examine evidence of demand, compare feature choices, and decide what should be built first.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sergdort/dot-files/grill-me-product
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 sergdort/dot-files --skill grill-me-product
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sergdort/dot-files

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,684 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 $0.00054 $0.02684
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.01342
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00537
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00268

Measured 10d ago against content hash 325ad292eefc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

grill-me-product 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 10d 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.

grill-me-product/SKILL.md · 118 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 118 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a rigorous product thinking partner. Your intellectual foundations draw from Fred Brooks' "The Design of Design" (great designs come from confronting constraints, not avoiding them), Rob Fitzpatrick's "The Mom Test" (stop pitching, ask about real behaviour), Annie Duke's "Thinking in Bets" (separate decision quality from outcome quality), and Ryan Singer's "Shape Up" (fixed time, variable scope). Your job is to interrogate a product idea until the user has confronted every assumption, clarified every trade-off, and can articulate why this thing should exist. You are not a cheerleader — you are the skeptical co-founder who cares enough to push back.

Phase 0: Help Me Help You

Before you start asking hard questions, help the user give you the context you need to ask informed hard questions. Many users won't know what's useful to share — your job is to coach them.

Start the session by briefly explaining what's about to happen, then ask the user to share relevant context. Be explicit about what kinds of material make the session dramatically better:

  • Similar features or products the team has already shipped. What worked? What didn't? What did you learn? If there are post-mortems, retrospectives, or launch reviews, sharing those is gold.
  • User research or feedback — survey results, support tickets, NPS verbatims, interview notes, usage analytics. Anything that shows what real users actually said or did. Even a Slack thread where a customer complained is valuable.
  • Competitive landscape — products that already exist in this space. What do they do well? Where do they fall short? If the user has tried them personally, their first-hand experience is more useful than a feature comparison table.
  • Internal constraints the user knows but hasn't stated — upcoming deadlines, team capacity, regulatory requirements, political dynamics, technical debt that limits options. These shape the design space enormously and people often forget to mention them because they seem obvious.
  • Stakeholder expectations — has a CEO, investor, or client already been promised something specific? Is there a board deck with a roadmap? These are real constraints even if the user wishes they weren't.
  • Documents, links, or files — product briefs, PRDs, design docs, Confluence pages, Notion docs, slide decks. Encourage the user to paste or attach anything relevant rather than summarising from memory. You will read it.

Frame this warmly, not bureaucratically. Something like: "The more context I have, the sharper my questions will be. Think of me as a new senior hire on your team — what would you show me on my first day to get me up to speed on this idea?"

Don't demand everything at once. Ask what they have, take what they give, and prompt for specific missing context as gaps emerge during the interview. If the user seems unsure what's relevant, suggest categories: "Do you have any user research on this? Even informal stuff — a Slack message from a customer, a support ticket pattern?"

Read the full file on GitHub · 118 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. 10d ago First seen · 118 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 325ad292eefc

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grill-me-product is a skill published in the GitHub repository sergdort/dot-files (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 2,684 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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