Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to stainless-code/codemap. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/stainless-code/codemap/main/.agents/skills/grilling/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/stainless-code/codemapWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/stainless-code/codemap/grilling)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/stainless-code/codemap/grilling"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/stainless-code/codemap/grilling/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/stainless-code/codemap/grilling"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/stainless-code/codemap/grilling.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00024 | $0.00816 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00326 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00163 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00002 | $0.00082 |
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 1mo 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 50 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Grilling
Interview relentlessly about every aspect of a plan until shared understanding. Walk down each branch of the decision tree, resolving dependencies between decisions one-by-one. For each question, provide a recommended answer. Ask one question at a time.
Rules
- One question at a time. Wait for the user's answer before posing the next. Multi-question batches collapse the decision tree into a wall of text.
- Always recommend. Every question carries your strongest read on the answer + a one-line "why". The user wants a sparring partner, not a menu.
- Explore before asking. If the answer lives in source, use
codemap queryfor structural facts, thenRead/Globbefore asking. Questions that the codebase already answers waste turns and signal weak prep. - Walk dependencies, not breadth. Resolve one branch fully before moving sideways. If Q3's answer makes Q5 moot, kill Q5; if Q3 forks into two new sub-questions, ask the sub-questions before returning to Q4.
- Push back on weak answers. If the user's answer leaves the design ambiguous or contradicts something earlier, surface the conflict and re-pose. Don't accept "we'll see" — that's a Q for next time, not closure.
- Stop when the design is operational. "Operational" means a competent contributor could open a PR from the resulting plan without further design questions. Not before, not after.
Interaction shape
Agent: <Q1>. My read: <recommended answer>. Why: <1-line reason>.
User: <answer / pushback>
Agent: <Q2 — derived from Q1's answer>. My read: …
User: …
Agent: That closes the design tree for me. Want me to <draft the plan / open a PR / start coding>?
Don't number the questions in chat — the conversation IS the order. Number them only when the user asks for a recap or a written summary.
Codebase-exploration shortcuts
Reach for these before asking the human:
| Question shape | Tool |
|---|---|
| "Where is X defined?" / "Who imports X?" | codemap query · Glob (file paths) |
| "What does file X export?" | codemap query --recipe find-symbol-definitions · Read the file |
| "What's the blast radius of X?" | codemap impact / query_recipe fan-in |
| "What conventions apply to this layer?" | Read the relevant rule under .agents/rules/ |
| "How does the existing similar module do this?" | codemap query for the pattern, then Read |
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 50 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 7b29785f1579
grilling is a skill published in the GitHub repository stainless-code/codemap (8 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 816 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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