mate-grilling

mate-grilling is a skill for Claude Code from uniqbit-ag/mate-cli. It costs 42 tokens per session (491 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A structured conversation for stress-testing a plan by asking dependency-ordered questions about its design, users, state, limits, and failure cases.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to refine a project idea, compare design options, and establish what evidence will show that the result works.
Why use it?
It exposes unresolved decisions before implementation and keeps recommendations from being mistaken for approved choices.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it to refine a project idea, compare design options, and establish what evidence will show that the result works.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/uniqbit-ag/mate-cli/mate-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 uniqbit-ag/mate-cli --skill mate-grilling
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/uniqbit-ag/mate-cli

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 491 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 $0.00042 $0.00491
Opus 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00196
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00098
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00049

Measured 22d ago against content hash f37ff4dd9b6d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mate-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 22d 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.

packages/mate-core/src/templates/mate-skills/agents/mate-grilling/SKILL.md · 55 lines

What it actually says

Mate Grilling

Stress-test the current plan or idea as a design tree. This is a conversation, not an implementation or documentation session: do not create or modify code, context files, ADRs, OpenSpec artifacts, or other files.

Rounds

Use this shape for each round:

Q1 - <question title>: <question body, including choices when useful>
Recommended: <your recommended answer and its trade-off>
  1. State the current design hypothesis and its intended outcome.
  2. Expand the unresolved design tree: boundaries, actors, state, dependencies, failure paths, constraints, and acceptance evidence.
  3. Order the frontier by dependency. Ask every question on the current frontier in one round, and present a recommended answer with the trade-off behind it.
  4. Wait for explicit user answers. Never treat an unanswered recommendation as a decision.
  5. Record the accepted decision in the next hypothesis, close resolved nodes, and continue with the next unblocked frontier.

Finding facts is the agent's job, not the user's. Look up only the facts that block a design decision, using the available environment, tools, or a sub-agent, instead of asking the user for them. When a question would need mapping large parts of the repository, do not investigate it; record it as an assumption or an unresolved question.

End when the frontier is empty and the user confirms shared understanding. If the user names a blocker, stop and report the design as incomplete rather than presenting it as settled. Return the accepted decisions, unresolved questions, and assumptions to the invoking skill, which decides the next step.

Guardrails

  • Ask in rounds, not as a long questionnaire.
  • Keep alternatives visible until the user chooses one.
  • Challenge contradictions and missing failure behavior directly.
  • Do not invoke another skill.
  • Do not write files or persist the conversation.
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. 22d ago Changed · +2 lines · +24 tokens per session f37ff4dd9b6d
  2. 23d ago Changed · +3 lines 168a259e69ae
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 50 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 9fa3fb50cc73

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mate-grilling is a skill published in the GitHub repository uniqbit-ag/mate-cli (12 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 491 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-09.

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