grill-me
Helps your agent ask tough questions about a plan. It's useful for testing ideas and ensuring everything is well-thought-out before starting.
What it does
This tool conducts a detailed interview to refine your ideas, plans, or designs. It asks sharp questions to ensure everything is well-thought-out and prepared.
When to use it
- ✓When you have an idea and want to ensure it's solid.
- ✓When planning a project and needing to identify potential issues.
- ✓To test the robustness of a design before implementing it.
Example of what to ask your AI
“I want to refine my business plan for opening a coffee shop.”
Want more? Open the sections below.
How to use
The easiest way: copy the message below and paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any AI. It reads the skill and follows the instructions.
Skill link
Ready-to-paste message
How it works
The tool asks a series of questions, one at a time, as if it's interviewing you. It challenges your assumptions and dependencies to help you think through all the important details.
Installation
Easiest way: copy the skill link and paste it into Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor asking it to follow the instructions.
In the terminal (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor), in your project folder:
npx skills add sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill grill-meOr download just the file:
curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills/main/plugins/agentic-awesome-skills-claude/skills/grill-me/SKILL.md -o SKILL.mdTechnical content (original SKILL.md)
Original text by the author, straight from GitHub.
When to Use
Use when this workflow matches the user request: A relentless interview to sharpen a plan or design.
Source: mattpocock/skills (MIT).
Use the locally available grilling skill to interview the user about the plan. If the host does not expose slash commands, follow its question-by-question procedure directly. Establish the intended outcome, challenge assumptions and dependencies, and stop when the user-defined decision criteria are resolved or the user ends the interview. Do not claim /grilling executed merely because it was printed.
Example
User request:
Use @grill-me for this task: A relentless interview to sharpen a plan or design.
Limitations
- Requires the upstream tool, account, API key, or local setup when the workflow names one.
- Does not authorize destructive, production, paid, or external-message actions without explicit user approval.
- Validate generated artifacts or recommendations against the user's real sources before treating them as final.
FAQ
What if I don't like the questions?
You can ask the tool to stop at any time. It only continues as long as it's helpful to you.
Will the tool change my plan?
No, it only asks questions to help you think more clearly. The final decision is always yours.
Do I need to install anything?
Possibly. The tool relies on another tool called 'grilling' which might need to be set up on your computer.
Details
Original description by the author
A relentless interview to sharpen a plan or design.
Popularity
- GitHub stars
- 48k
- Ranking position
- #3171
- License
- MIT
- Updated
- 10/15/2026
Comments
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