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Imported from akillness/jeo-skills (.agent-skills/grill-me/SKILL.md). Install upstream with npx skills add akillness/jeo-skills --skill grill-me. Copyright stays with the author.

Grill Me

Name: grill-me
Author: akillness

Thoroughly vet plans and designs through systematic, relentless questioning.

When to use this skill

Before committing to an architectural decision
When a design feels right but hasn't been challenged
Stress-testing assumptions before implementation begins
Exploring edge cases and failure modes in a proposal

When not to use this skill

Quick clarifying questions → just ask directly
Validating against domain docs → use grill-with-docs
Writing implementation tickets → use to-issues

Process

Interview relentlessly about every aspect of the plan until shared understanding is reached. Walk down each branch of the decision tree, resolving dependencies between decisions one by one.

Rules:

Ask one question at a time
Wait for feedback before continuing
Provide a recommended answer with each question
Explore the codebase instead of asking when the answer is findable there
Keep going until all branches of the decision tree are resolved

What gets covered

The grilling session explores:

Why this approach? — What alternatives were considered and rejected?
What breaks first? — Edge cases, failure modes, error states
What are the dependencies? — What must be true for this to work?
What changes later? — Which parts are likely to evolve?
What can't change? — Which decisions are load-bearing and hard to reverse?
Who is affected? — Callers, consumers, downstream systems

Output

By the end of the session:

Every major decision point has been examined
Dependencies between decisions have been resolved in order
Remaining open questions are documented
Shared understanding exists about trade-offs made

Activation

User says: "grill me", "stress-test this plan", "challenge my design", "ask me hard questions about this"

Instructions

Identify the task trigger and expected output.
Follow the workflow steps in this skill from top to bottom.
Validate outputs before moving to the next step.
Capture blockers and fallback path if any step fails.

Examples

Example: Apply this skill to a small scope first, then scale to full scope after validation passes.

Best practices

Keep outputs deterministic and auditable.
Prefer small reversible changes over broad risky edits.
Record assumptions explicitly.

References

Project standards: .agent-skills/skill-standardization/SKILL.md
Validator script: .agent-skills/skill-standardization/scripts/validate_skill.sh

Use it

Copy one of these into your project. Installing also returns the manifest and these snippets.

yaml

targets:
  - https://api.opensmartroute.ai/api/v1/registry/akillness-jeo-skills-grill-me/manifest   # or paste the manifest below

Manifest

An Open Capability Manifest: the router reads it to know what this does, what it costs and when to pick it.

akillness-jeo-skills-grill-me.ocm.jsonjson

{
  "ocm": "1",
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  "version": "1.0.0",
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    ],
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    ],
    "languages": [
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  "metadata": {
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      "provider": "skills.sh",
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      "Read",
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Fetch it by URL: GET /api/v1/registry/akillness-jeo-skills-grill-me/manifest?version=1.0.0

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