Skill

grill-me

Interview the user relentlessly about a plan or design until reaching shared understanding, resolving each branch of the decision tree. Use when user wants to stress-test a plan, get grilled on their design, or mentions "grill me".

npx claudepluginhub ciciliaeth/claude-skills --plugin grill-me

Invocation

How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both

Slash command

/grill-me:grill-me

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Model invocable

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The summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill

> Derived from [Matt Pocock's grill-me](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/tree/main/skills/productivity/grill-me) (MIT). Matt's interview discipline preserved verbatim. Additions: extraction + question + session tools + references + cs-* wrapper (see [references/companion_tooling.md](references/companion_tooling.md)).

Supporting Files

references/companion_tooling.mdreferences/forcing_question_patterns.mdreferences/when_to_stop_grilling.mdscripts/decision_tree_extractor.pyscripts/grill_session_tracker.pyscripts/question_generator.py

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Grill Me

Derived from Matt Pocock's grill-me (MIT). Matt's interview discipline preserved verbatim. Additions: extraction + question + session tools + references + cs-* wrapper (see references/companion_tooling.md).

Interview me relentlessly about every aspect of this plan until we reach a shared understanding. Walk down each branch of the design tree, resolving dependencies between decisions one-by-one. For each question, provide your recommended answer.

Ask the questions one at a time.

If a question can be answered by exploring the codebase, explore the codebase instead.

Rules (preserved + amplified)

One question per turn. Never bundle.

Provide a recommended answer with each question. Defaulting to "what do you think?" is lazy.

Explore the codebase before asking. If grep / Read resolves it, do that first. Saves a turn.

Walk the tree depth-first. Finish a branch before opening another.

Track dependencies. If decision B depends on decision A, ask A first.

Workflow

User provides a plan or design (or path to one).

Run scripts/decision_tree_extractor.py to extract branches.

Run scripts/question_generator.py to produce the question list with recommendations.

Start a session: scripts/grill_session_tracker.py --action start.

Walk the tree, one question at a time, recording answers in the session.

When all branches resolved: report "shared understanding reached" + the locked-in decisions.

Output Pattern

Per question turn:

Q[i]/[total]: [question] Recommended answer: [your call + 1-sentence rationale] (Or: I explored the codebase and found [evidence]. Confirm?)

Tooling

See references/companion_tooling.md. Tools: extractor + generator + tracker. Agent: cs-grill-master. Command: /cs:grill-me.

Version: 1.0.0 Derived: Matt Pocock (MIT) + this repo's wrapper