grilling

grilling is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tt-a1i/matt-skills-with-to-goal. It costs 38 tokens per session (769 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of grilling, MIT.

An interview-style skill for stress-testing a plan, decision, or idea through a series of structured questions. It maps the decisions that depend on one another and asks the currently answerable questions first.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to examine project plans, product decisions, and ideas, especially when you want direct questioning and a recommended answer for each decision.
Why use it?
It exposes unresolved assumptions and trade-offs before you commit to a direction. The questions are organized in rounds so later choices depend on earlier answers.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the matt-skills-with-to-goal plugin — 40 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to examine project plans, product decisions, and ideas, especially when you want direct questioning and a recommended answer for each decision.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tt-a1i/matt-skills-with-to-goal/grilling
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 tt-a1i/matt-skills-with-to-goal --skill grilling
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tt-a1i/matt-skills-with-to-goal

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install matt-skills-with-to-goal, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 40 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.

agentmods badge for grilling

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tt-a1i/matt-skills-with-to-goal/grilling/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/tt-a1i/matt-skills-with-to-goal/grilling)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/tt-a1i/matt-skills-with-to-goal/grilling"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tt-a1i/matt-skills-with-to-goal/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.

agentmods 80×15 button for grilling

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/tt-a1i/matt-skills-with-to-goal/grilling"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/tt-a1i/matt-skills-with-to-goal/grilling.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 769 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 88% 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 $0.00769
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00385
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00154
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00077

Measured 13d ago against content hash a9276819519e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, 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 13d 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

88% identical to grilling — 52 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.

skills/productivity/grilling/SKILL.md · 63 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 63 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Interview the user relentlessly until you reach a shared understanding. Map this as a design tree: every decision branches into the decisions that hang off it.

Work the tree in rounds. The frontier is every decision whose prerequisites are already settled — the questions you can ask now without guessing at answers you haven't heard yet. Ask the whole frontier in one round: number each question and give your recommended answer. Then wait for the user's answers before the next round.

Question format

Lead each round with a fixed header, then emit every frontier question in one shape. Use emoji as structure anchors and question-type signals — not decoration in every sentence.

Round header:

🔥 **Round N** · K questions

Each question (one type emoji before the number):

<type> **QN** - **<question title>**
<body — prose and/or multiple choices>

💡 <your recommended answer>

Round footer (after the last question):

👇 Reply by number: `1) …  2) …  3) …`

Type emoji (pick one that fits the decision)

Type Emoji Use when
Scope / in-or-out 🎯 Boundary, YAGNI, what ships now
Trade-off ⚖️ A vs B, pick one path
Risk / failure ⚠️ What breaks, abuse cases, rollback
Naming / language 🏷️ Terms, glossary, how we say it
UX / UI 👀 What someone sees or clicks
Data / state 🧩 Model shape, transitions, schema
Cost / perf Latency, money, scale
Auth / trust 🔐 Permissions, tenancy, secrets
Timing ⏱️ When, sequencing, milestones
Challenge 🪞 "Do you actually need this?"
Dependency 🔗 Blockers, prerequisites
Open / foggy 💭 Still ill-formed; need a direction

Fixed skeleton (do not invent alternatives each round): 🔥 round · type emoji + QN · 💡 recommendation · 👇 reply prompt.

Keep the body text clean — at most one optional mood emoji in the round header line if it helps (e.g. a long session), never a spray of emoji inside the question body.

Read the full file on GitHub · 63 lines

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. 13d ago First seen · 63 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A a9276819519e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

grilling is a skill published in the GitHub repository tt-a1i/matt-skills-with-to-goal (160 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 769 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 88% identical to grilling, differing in 52 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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