grill-me
A Claude Code skill that conducts multiple rounds of pointed questioning on a plan or design, attaching a recommended answer to each round, to help developers scrutinize design decisions.
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After personally testing 28 Claude Code skills, one developer ultimately kept only 5: ponytail, caveman, graphify, grill-me, and ui-ux-pro-max.
The grill-me skill sets disable-model-invocation: true, so it is not loaded automatically and only runs when actively invoked, with zero everyday cost to the context window.
grill-me belongs to Matt Pocock's skill collection (MIT license), has entered the official Claude Code marketplace, and is installed via /plugin install mattpocock-skills.
grill-me went viral on platforms such as Bilibili, standing out among more than a dozen skills of the same type
grill-me requires the AI to provide a recommended answer for each question first, allowing the user to simply reject it without having to think from scratch, thereby advancing the conversation.
grill-me adopts the universal SKILL.md portable format and can be used by mainstream tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex.
grill-me is an open-source skill that has AI interrogate a development plan from start to finish like an interviewer before writing any code.
The default behavior of coding agents is to 'rush to help'—asking few questions and quickly churning out work—which tends to produce large amounts of rewritten code that needs to be thrown away.
grill-me proposes that a very short conversation indicates the problem is well-defined, while a very long conversation indicates details that should be handled later are being discussed, at which point one should pause and write a small piece of code to validate first.
grill-me can be installed via npx skills add pointing to mattpocock's repository with the --skill parameter, and is triggered by the phrase 'grill me' or /grill-me.
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grill-me belongs to Matt Pocock's skill collection (MIT license), has entered the official Claude Code marketplace, and is installed via /plugin install mattpocock-skills.
50%UnverifiedThe grill-me skill sets disable-model-invocation: true, so it is not loaded automatically and only runs when actively invoked, with zero everyday cost to the context window.
50%UnverifiedThe core instructions of grill-me include walking a decision tree, providing a recommended answer, asking one question at a time, and having the AI look up questions that can be answered by checking the codebase itself.
50%Unverifiedgrill-me requires the AI to provide a recommended answer for each question first, allowing the user to simply reject it without having to think from scratch, thereby advancing the conversation.
50%Unverifiedgrill-me adopts the universal SKILL.md portable format and can be used by mainstream tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex.
50%Unverifiedgrill-me is an open-source skill that has AI interrogate a development plan from start to finish like an interviewer before writing any code.
50%UnverifiedThe default behavior of coding agents is to 'rush to help'—asking few questions and quickly churning out work—which tends to produce large amounts of rewritten code that needs to be thrown away.
50%Unverifiedgrill-me proposes that a very short conversation indicates the problem is well-defined, while a very long conversation indicates details that should be handled later are being discussed, at which point one should pause and write a small piece of code to validate first.
50%Unverifiedgrill-me can be installed via npx skills add pointing to mattpocock's repository with the --skill parameter, and is triggered by the phrase 'grill me' or /grill-me.
50%UnverifiedA complete grill-me interrogation typically takes about 45 minutes and is divided into four phases: reading the request, foundational branches, edge cases, and comprehensive summary.
50%UnverifiedAfter personally testing 28 Claude Code skills, one developer ultimately kept only 5: ponytail, caveman, graphify, grill-me, and ui-ux-pro-max.
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