grilling

Stress-tests proposed plans through sequential high-leverage design interview questions.

Updated Mar 26, 2026
One-click install
npx skills add https://github.com/sciman-top/skills-manager --skill grilling-sciman-top
Or copy as Structured Prompt for Agent▼
Please help me install this Agent Skill.
Skill: grilling
Source: https://github.com/sciman-top/skills-manager/tree/main/overrides/patches/grilling
Command: npx skills add https://github.com/sciman-top/skills-manager --skill grilling-sciman-top

SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION & REQUIREMENTS

What problem does it solve? Proposed plans and design decisions often contain hidden assumptions, unresolved trade-offs, and unverified facts that only surface during implementation. This Skill runs a structured design interview that challenges a plan one high-leverage question at a time before any code is written. ## Core Features & Use Cases - One-question-at-a-time interviews: Each turn presents a single question with the smallest useful set of choices and a recommended answer, waiting for an accepted answer before proceeding. - Fact verification before asking: The agent inspects the repository and supplied materials first, reserving user questions for genuine decisions rather than verifiable facts. - Decision accountability: Accepted answers require attributable human input or an explicitly authorized delegate answer with preserved evidence, and the interview ends with a summary of settled decisions, open risks, and remaining assumptions. - Use Case: Before starting a major refactor, ask the agent to grill your migration plan so scope, risk, and sequencing decisions are settled explicitly instead of discovered mid-implementation. ## Quick Start Ask the agent to use the grilling skill to challenge your proposed plan one high-leverage question at a time and not implement anything until you confirm the shared understanding.

Frequently Asked Questions about grilling

High-intent search queries and answers about installing and using this skill.

FAQPage Schema
How do I stress-test a design plan before implementation?▼

Ask the agent to grill your plan, and it will run a design interview asking one high-leverage question at a time with a recommended answer. It waits for your accepted answer before moving on and ends with a summary of settled decisions and open risks.

How does the grilling interview decide which questions to ask?▼

It inspects the repository and supplied materials first to verify facts itself, then asks only about genuine decisions such as scope, risk, and trade-offs. After each accepted answer it re-evaluates the remaining decision tree so downstream questions wait until prerequisites are settled.

When should I not use a design grilling interview?▼

Do not use it for ordinary implementation, debugging, or open-ended brainstorming, as the skill is explicitly scoped to challenging a proposed plan. It is invoked only when the user asks to grill or challenge their thinking.

Can the interview start writing code or files after questions are answered?▼

No. The interview ends by summarizing settled decisions, open risks, and assumptions, and it does not implement, write repository files, or publish specifications until the user confirms the shared understanding or explicitly requests the next step.

What counts as an accepted answer in the design interview?▼

An accepted answer is attributable human verbatim input or an explicitly authorized delegate answer with preserved authorization evidence and a SHA-256 hash. A delegate answer alone never establishes human acceptance.