Grill Me

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Relentlessly interview the user about a plan or design until reaching shared understanding, resolving each decision branch.

Sby Skills Guide Bot
DevelopmentBeginner
7/26/2026
Claude CodeCursorCodex
#planning#design-review#critical-thinking#decision-making#requirements

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Automated summary

Relentlessly interviews the user about a plan or design, resolving each branch of the decision tree until a shared understanding is reached.

Strengths

  • Works through decisions one at a time and surfaces the dependencies between them instead of piling up scattered questions
  • Explores the codebase, existing components and design tokens rather than asking questions it can answer itself
  • Supplies a recommended answer for every question, so the user is never starting from a blank page
  • Handles both a vague early idea and an already sketched-out architecture

Limitations

  • The interrogation pace can be gruelling on a large project and bury the decisions that actually matter
  • Produces no written artifact: no spec or summary is generated at the end of the session
  • Question quality depends heavily on how well the model explores the codebase
When to use it

Use it before implementation starts, when a plan or design needs to be stress-tested and clarified.

When not to use it

Avoid it when you want an immediate answer or implementation rather than being questioned about your own choices.

Security analysis

Safe
Quality score80/100

The skill contains only natural-language interviewing instructions and declares no tools. It tells the agent to ask the user probing questions and to inspect the existing codebase/components for answers, which is read-only exploration within the project. There are no destructive commands, no network or shell invocation, no credential or token handling, and no obfuscated payloads, so listing it carries no meaningful execution risk.

No concerns found

How this analysis is made

Examples

Landing page concept
Grill me on this landing page idea before I start building it.
Team metrics dashboard
I want to build a dashboard for tracking team metrics. Challenge my thinking and walk me through each design decision.
Settings page approach
Stress-test my approach to this settings page — ask me everything until we agree on the design.

name: grill-me description: 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, challenge an approach, or mentions "grill me".

Example prompts

  • "Grill me on this landing page idea"
  • "I want to build a dashboard for tracking team metrics. Challenge my thinking."
  • "Stress-test my approach to this settings page"
  • "I have a rough idea for a portfolio site. Help me think it through."

Instructions

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.

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

If a question can be answered by examining existing components, styles, or design tokens in the project, examine them instead of asking me.

For each question, provide your recommended answer.

From the file to a first result

The download contains exactly the content displayed on this page. This copy may differ from the latest version in the source repository.

View the source and supporting files

This download contains SKILL.md only. Any scripts, references, templates and dependencies are not included. Get the required files from the source, preserving their directory structure, before continuing.

1. Download the file

Download SKILL.md

From the root of a test project, save the file as .skill-downloads/grill-me-ms1aw57m/SKILL.md, or use the command below. This folder is for inspecting the skill before installation.

Command for macOS/Linux or WSL: requires a POSIX shell and curl. On Windows without WSL, use the download button and create the folder manually.

mkdir -p '.skill-downloads/grill-me-ms1aw57m' && curl --fail --show-error --location 'https://skills-guides.com/api/skills/grill-me-ms1aw57m/download' --output '.skill-downloads/grill-me-ms1aw57m/SKILL.md.part' && mv '.skill-downloads/grill-me-ms1aw57m/SKILL.md.part' '.skill-downloads/grill-me-ms1aw57m/SKILL.md'

2. Check prerequisites

Read SKILL.md before using it. If it references scripts or external services, inspect them and prepare the required access in your test environment.

No recognized prerequisites section in this file. This does not mean it is self-contained: libraries, tools and access requirements may be mentioned elsewhere in the content or source repository.

The platforms on this page are catalog indications. The paths below follow tool documentation; they do not prove this skill has been run in those tools. No minimum tool version is confirmed for this listing.

3. Load the skill

After inspection, copy the complete folder into your project using one of the commands below, then open a new tool session. The command stops if a folder with the same name already exists: compare the files before replacing it.

Claude Code
test -f '.skill-downloads/grill-me-ms1aw57m/SKILL.md' && test -s '.skill-downloads/grill-me-ms1aw57m/SKILL.md' && mkdir -p '.claude/skills' && test ! -e '.claude/skills/grill-me' && cp -R '.skill-downloads/grill-me-ms1aw57m' '.claude/skills/grill-me'

Cursor
test -f '.skill-downloads/grill-me-ms1aw57m/SKILL.md' && test -s '.skill-downloads/grill-me-ms1aw57m/SKILL.md' && mkdir -p '.cursor/skills' && test ! -e '.cursor/skills/grill-me' && cp -R '.skill-downloads/grill-me-ms1aw57m' '.cursor/skills/grill-me'

Codex
test -f '.skill-downloads/grill-me-ms1aw57m/SKILL.md' && test -s '.skill-downloads/grill-me-ms1aw57m/SKILL.md' && mkdir -p '.agents/skills' && test ! -e '.agents/skills/grill-me' && cp -R '.skill-downloads/grill-me-ms1aw57m' '.agents/skills/grill-me'

OpenSkills

OpenSkills must already be installed. The local install/read procedure is checked with OpenSkills 1.5.0, which requires Node.js ≥ 20.6.0. Catalog slugs are not resolved automatically.

Official OpenSkills installation
openskills install './.skill-downloads/grill-me-ms1aw57m'

openskills read 'grill-me-ms1aw57m'

Reading should display the installed file content and its base directory. It does not run the skill or install its dependencies.

For an agent that reads AGENTS.md, then sync the index. This command changes AGENTS.md: review the diff before using it.

openskills sync

Manual method or another tool: attach SKILL.md to a conversation, or open it in an agent that can read files. Include any required supporting resources. No universal folder is recognized by every tool.

4. Try a first task

Use a short, synthetic input: an API endpoint, a small document or an interface brief. In a new conversation, attach the file or give the agent its path, then adapt this request:

Read .skill-downloads/grill-me-ms1aw57m/SKILL.md and apply its instructions to this example: [describe a test input]. Identify any missing files, dependencies or access. Produce the result requested by the skill without inventing data or running unreviewed scripts.

Expected result: output matching the skill instructions, or a precise list of missing prerequisites. A read confirmation alone does not validate a first use. If an external resource is unavailable, that path remains untested.

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