Grilling
A third-party skill from Matt Pocock (aihero.dev). It adds no tools and runs no scripts. It is a short set of instructions that turns Claude into a relentless interviewer. Claude maps your plan as a design tree, where every decision branches into the decisions that hang off it. Each round it asks every question whose prerequisites are already settled, numbered, with its own recommended answer. Your answers open the next round. Claude looks up facts itself, using sub-agents, and leaves the decisions to you. It will not act until you confirm you both understand the plan the same way. It is also the base for Matt's grill-me and grill-with-docs skills. We did not write it and have not reviewed it. Licensed MIT.
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What it does
Stress-test a plan, decision, or idea. Claude interviews you in rounds, branch by branch, until nothing is left silently assumed.
How to use this
Once it is installed, this skill picks itself up. You do not need to name it.
- Created by
- Matt Pocock
- Category
- Productivity
- Source
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Grilling
A third-party skill from Matt Pocock (aihero.dev). It adds no tools and runs no scripts. It is a short set of instructions that turns Claude into a relentless interviewer. Claude maps your plan as a design tree, where every decision branches into the decisions that hang off it. Each round it asks every question whose prerequisites are already settled, numbered, with its own recommended answer. Your answers open the next round. Claude looks up facts itself, using sub-agents, and leaves the decisions to you. It will not act until you confirm you both understand the plan the same way. It is also the base for Matt's grill-me and grill-with-docs skills. We did not write it and have not reviewed it. Licensed MIT.
Third-party, by Matt Pocock
September 19, 2026
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What this skill does
This is an overview of the skill from the site, not the skill's real instructions. The full SKILL.md Claude reads when this skill is active lives on GitHub at the source below.
What it does
Claude interviews you about a plan, a decision, or an idea until nothing is left silently assumed. The full instructions are in the pinned SKILL.md.
- Map the plan. Claude builds a design tree. Every decision branches into the decisions that depend on it.
- Ask in rounds. Each round covers every question that can be asked now. Claude numbers them and gives its own recommended answer for each.
- Let answers reshape the tree. Your answers unblock the next questions. Claude asks those in the next round.
- Look up facts, ask about decisions. Claude finds facts itself with sub-agents. The decisions stay with you.
- Confirm before acting. The session ends when no questions are left. Claude waits for you to confirm before it does anything.
Prefer one question at a time? Add “When grilling, ask one question at a time.” to your CLAUDE.md.
Source: mattpocock/skills, MIT license. It is also part of the Matt Pocock’s Skills plugin.
View full SKILL.md on GitHub