Grilling

Grill the user relentlessly about a plan or design. Use when the user wants to stress-test a plan before building, or uses any 'grill' trigger phrases.

by mattpocock

Source

Install

Copy install prompt for AI

Natural-language prompt you can paste into any Claude conversation. Claude Code installs it to ~/.claude/skills/grilling/; claude.ai and Claude Desktop adopt it for the current chat and tell you how to save it permanently.

Copy install command

curl -fsSL https://spellbook.build/i/grilling | bash

Drops the file into ~/.claude/skills/grilling/SKILL.md. The script is plain shell — inspect it by dropping the | bash.

Download skill folder

Download .zip

A grilling/ folder with SKILL.md (and any supporting files) — unzip into ~/.claude/skills/.

Benchmarks

This skill isn't in a benchmarked category yet. Set metadata.type in the frontmatter to activate scorecards.

Skill content

---
name: grilling
description: Grill the user relentlessly about a plan or design. Use when the user wants to stress-test a plan before building, or uses any 'grill' trigger phrases.
---

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, waiting for feedback on each question before continuing. Asking multiple questions at once is bewildering.

If a *fact* can be found by exploring the codebase, look it up rather than asking me. The *decisions*, though, are mine — put each one to me and wait for my answer.

Do not enact the plan until I confirm we have reached a shared understanding.

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