A guided design interview that asks one question at a time and checks each answer against the codebase. It saves the discussion in a project file so an unfinished session can be resumed.

It helps pressure-test a design, clarify requirements, review existing project rules, and maintain a persistent record of open and resolved decisions.

It exposes contradictions, unsupported assumptions, and conflicts with earlier decisions before implementation begins. Codebase checks help keep the design grounded in what actually exists.

chief-grill — Skill for Claude Code by thaitype/chief

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 thaitype/chief --skill chief-grill

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/thaitype/chief

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install chief-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills.

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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/thaitype/chief/chief-grill/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/thaitype/chief/chief-grill)

Your own site

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/thaitype/chief/chief-grill"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/thaitype/chief/chief-grill/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.

Your own site · 80×15

<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/thaitype/chief/chief-grill"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/thaitype/chief/chief-grill.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>

Per session 126 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,858 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. Third-party audits

NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026

How audits are shown

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00126	$0.01858
Opus 5.5	$0.00050	$0.00743
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00025	$0.00372
Haiku 4.5	$0.00013	$0.00186

Measured 2mo ago against content hash ddeaa3d73441, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

chief-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 2mo 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.

skills/chief/chief-grill/SKILL.md · 172 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 172 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are running a verified grill session. This is /grill-design with two extra things bolted on:

Per-question self-review (in-skill). Before recommending an answer, you critique your own pick. After the user answers, you stress-test their answer.
Per-question background verification by answer-verifier-agent. While the user is thinking about the next question, the agent cross-references the previous answer against the actual codebase. Findings surface as a sidebar.
Persistent session log. All state lives in .chief/_grill/opened/NNNN-topic.md. Survives compaction and /clear.

Ask one question at a time. Wait for the user. Provide a recommended answer with each question.

Steps

1. Pre-flight

Inspect (do not create yet):

.chief/ — exists?
.chief/_grill/ — exists?
.chief/_grill/opened/ and .chief/_grill/closed/ — exist?
Any unresolved sessions in .chief/_grill/opened/?

2. Resume or start fresh

If .chief/_grill/opened/ contains files, list them with their topics (read the H1 of each) and ask:

Found N open grill session(s). Resume one, or start fresh?

Resume 0003-payment-sdk (12 resolved, 3 open)

Resume 0007-auth (5 resolved, 0 open — ready for final review)

Start fresh

If the user picks resume → load that file as the session log, jump to step 5. If the user picks fresh → continue to step 3. If opened/ is empty or missing → continue to step 3.

3. Topic and slug

Take the first user message after /chief-grill was invoked (or the most recent describing what to grill). Derive a kebab-case topic slug from it (3–5 words max). Show it to the user:

Topic: payment-sdk. Continue, or pick a different slug?

If the user overrides, use their slug.

4. Create session log (deferred scaffolding)

Now scaffold the directories that don't exist yet:

Create .chief/_grill/, .chief/_grill/opened/, .chief/_grill/closed/ as needed.
Compute next sequence number: count files in opened/ + closed/, add 1, zero-pad to 4 digits.
Create .chief/_grill/opened/NNNN-<slug>.md with this initial content:

Read the full file on GitHub · 172 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.

2mo ago First seen · 172 lines · 126 tokens per session scan A ddeaa3d73441

Subscribe to this mod's changes

chief-grill is a skill published in the GitHub repository thaitype/chief (68 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 126 tokens to every session and 1,858 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-30.

Planning

chief-grill next to 6 skills from other repositories
Mod	Type	Stars	Last push	Licence	Scan	Tokens	Works with
chief-grillthaitype/chief	Skill	68	1mo ago	MIT	A	126	Claude Code
imagegenopenai/codex	Skill	134k	today	Apache-2.0	A	113	Codex
local-ai-agentsmicrosoft/ai-agents-for-beginners	Skill	79k	yesterday	MIT	A	200	Claude Code, Codex
playwright-climicrosoft/playwright	Skill	100k	yesterday	Apache-2.0	A	19	Claude Code
browser-automationopenclaw/openclaw	Skill	394k	today	MIT	A	36	Claude Code
systematic-debuggingobra/superpowers	Skill	314k	4d ago	MIT	A	21	Claude Code
next-cache-components-adoptionvercel/next.js	Skill	143k	yesterday	MIT	A	95	Claude Code