grilling

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name: grilling description: Interview 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. category: "productivity" risk: "safe" source: "community" source_repo: "mattpocock/skills" source_type: "community" date_added: "2026-06-19" author: "Matt Pocock" license: "MIT" license_source: "https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/main/LICENSE" tags:

• productivity
• workflow
• coding-agents tools:
• claude-code
• codex-cli
• cursor

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When to Use

Use when this workflow matches the user request: Interview 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.

_Source: mattpocock/skills (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, waiting for feedback on each question before continuing. Asking multiple questions at once is bewildering.

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

Example

User request:

Use @grilling for this task: Interview the user relentlessly about 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.