grill-me
This skill conducts an intensive interview on a user's plan or design, asking probing questions one at a time to expose gaps and dependencies.
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- Agents
- Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, OpenCode, claude.ai and API
- License
- MIT (permissive)
- Pin
- 9bc61f5pinned Oct 9, 2026
- Context cost
- about 92 tokenswhen the skill loads
- GitHub stars
- 86on youdotcom-oss/agent-skills
- Scripts
- None found
What it does
“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".”
Generated summary from the skill's own text
This skill conducts an intensive interview on a user's plan or design, asking probing questions one at a time to expose gaps and dependencies. It walks through decision trees systematically while consulting the codebase when answers are discoverable there, helping the user achieve clarity and stress-test their thinking.
When to use it
- User wants to validate a plan or design thoroughly
- Preparing to start implementation of a complex feature
- Need to identify hidden assumptions in a proposal
- Testing robustness of architectural decisions
When not to
- Quick feedback or high-level review needed
- User needs written documentation or specification
- Design decisions are already thoroughly documented elsewhere
Install
These commands install from the publisher's repository and need no account.
skills CLI
npx skills add youdotcom-oss/agent-skills --skill grill-meInstalls from the repository's default branch, which may have changed since the commit we checked.
GitHub CLI 2.90 or later
gh skill install youdotcom-oss/agent-skills grill-me@9bc61f556646770da3085c048f35db9547343c44Installs the commit we checked (9bc61f5).
Copy by hand
Download the folder at 9bc61f5 and put it in .claude/skills/grill-me for Claude Code and in .agents/skills/grill-me for Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode.
Claude Code plugin
/plugin install youdotcom-agent-skills@claude-plugins-officialThe publisher's plugin in Claude's official marketplace. It may hold more than this skill, and we have not pinned it.
Copy for your agent
A prompt for any coding agent. It installs this skill from GitHub at the pinned commit, copies the files as they are, and runs nothing unless you ask.
Prompt
Install the agent skill "grill-me" by You.com. Source, pinned to commit 9bc61f556646770da3085c048f35db9547343c44: https://github.com/youdotcom-oss/agent-skills/tree/9bc61f556646770da3085c048f35db9547343c44/.agents/skills/grill-me 1. Download that folder at exactly this commit. Do not use the default branch. 2. Copy every file unchanged, keeping the folder structure, into .claude/skills/grill-me/ for Claude Code and .agents/skills/grill-me/ for Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode. Create the folders if they do not exist. 3. Do not edit the files, and do not run any script in the folder unless I ask you to. 4. When you are done, list the files you copied and where you put them. Listing and checks: https://www.agentnative.dev/skills/you-com/grill-me
SKILL.md at the pin
--- 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, or mentions "grill me". license: MIT --- 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.
From youdotcom-oss/agent-skills at 9bc61f5, shown as plain text under its license: MIT (permissive). The license text is in .agents/skills/grill-me/SKILL.md.
View SKILL.md on GitHub at 9bc61f5Files
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