Agent skill · product strategy · alirezarezvani
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".
Why this skill is useful
Adds specific scripts for decision tree extraction and question generation that enhance the AI's ability to facilitate structured design discussions.
What it needs
Requires python installed locally. About 1k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-05. 23,939 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
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/companiontooling.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) 1. One question per turn. Never bundle. 2. Provide a recommended answer with each question. Defaulting to "what do you think?" is lazy. 3. Explore the codebase before asking. If grep / Read resolves it, do that first. Saves a turn. 4. Walk the tree depth-first. Finish a branch before opening another. 5. Track dependencies. If decision B depends on decision A, ask A first. Workflow 1. User provides a plan or design (or path to one). 2. Run scripts/decisiontreeextractor.py to extract branches. 3. Run scripts/questiongenerator.py to produce the question list with recommendations. 4. Start a session: scripts/grillsessiontracker.py --action start. 5. Walk the tree, one question at a time, recording answers in the session. 6. When all branches resolved: report "shared understanding reached" + the locked-in decisions. Output Pattern Per question turn: Tooling See references/companiontooling.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 More in this skill Load these only when the task needs them. references/forcingquestionpatterns.md — Forcing-Question Patterns for Plan Interrogation references/whentostopgrilling.md — When to Stop Grilling
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
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