/grill-me — get interrogated before anything gets built

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Slash command /grill-me

get interrogated before anything gets built

Turns Claude into an interviewer that works through your plan as a decision tree, one round of numbered questions at a time — each with its recommended answer — until nothing is left silently assumed. It refuses to start building until you confirm you agree.

both ⏱ ~a day of rework per project View source ↗

In practice

You want a tool that chases missing KYC documents. It sounds like a two-day build. `/grill-me` opens with a round of numbered questions — who owns the chase, what happens on the third reminder, does a partial document count, what's the audit requirement — each with a recommended answer so you're reacting, not composing. Round two only asks what round one unblocked. By the end you either have a real spec or you've discovered the thing is three separate tools.

Beginners skip the thinking step because Claude is fast enough that building feels cheaper than planning. /grill-me puts the thinking back, and makes it Claude’s job rather than yours.

/grill-me

Then describe the idea. What follows is an interview, not a chat.

How it actually behaves

• Rounds, not a firehose. It maps your idea as a decision tree and asks only the questions whose prerequisites are already settled. Your answers push the frontier outward and unlock the next round.
• Every question comes with its recommended answer. You’re reacting to a proposal rather than inventing one from nothing — much easier when you’re new to the domain.
• It looks things up itself. Facts it can find on disk are not your job; it dispatches a sub-agent and keeps asking you the questions only you can answer.
• It won’t start until you say so. The session ends when nothing is left assumed and you confirm you agree.

Worth knowing

• The skill is a one-line shim. /grill-me immediately calls a skill named grilling, which does the work. If you see grilling in the logs, that’s expected.
• It is deliberately relentless. That’s the point, but it makes it the wrong tool for a five-minute fix.
• Related but different: plan first is the free, built-in version of this instinct. Start there; reach for /grill-me when the stakes justify the interrogation.
• Installing gives you the whole set — /teach and /handoff arrive in the same plugin.

Access

Public — no access request needed. It ships in Claude Code’s official marketplace, so there is no marketplace add step.

Get this skill running

Copy-paste into Claude Code. The marketplace + install steps run once per machine; the last one is how you call the skill day-to-day.

1. 1 Access

   Public repo — no access request needed.

2. 2 Install the skill

   /plugin install mattpocock-skills@claude-plugins-official

3. 3 Use it

   /grill-me

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