Grill Me Skill · Productivity

Grill Me Skill: Pressure-Test the Plan Before You Build It

Find the weak assumptions before they become expensive decisions.

Grill Me Skill is Matt Pocock's explicit entry point for pressure-testing a plan, idea or design. It hands the conversation to his grilling Skill, which groups ready-to-answer decisions into rounds and waits for your confirmation before action. Independently refined by Antigravity Skills from the MIT source; not an official Matt Pocock release or endorsement.

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Planning
Decision making
Design review

About This Skill

Grill Me Skill is Matt Pocock's explicit entry point for pressure-testing a plan, idea, or design. It hands the conversation to the sibling grilling Skill, which asks ready decisions in rounds, waits for answers, and ends after the user confirms the shared understanding.

Built on proven foundations

Trusted Source, Professionally Refined

The original expertise stays intact. Focused refinements make it easier to start, follow the guidance, and know when the work is finished.

Original foundation

Matt Pocock · commit d81f3a1

The original Skill knowledge, package structure, attribution and original license terms are preserved. Follow the source link to see where this edition began.

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Antigravity optimization

5 files, one clearer workflow

A source-faithful edition with the improvements explained below. The download includes the original attribution and everything needed to follow the Skill’s guidance.

More useful from the first prompt

What We Improved

Keep the depth you came for. Get clearer starting points, practical guidance and an explicit finish line.

A scoped pressure-test entry point

The wrapper now names plans, ideas, and designs as the work it pressure-tests before implementation while keeping invocation explicit.

A visible dependency handoff

Grill Me makes it clear that the sibling grilling Skill owns the interview, so the package has one workflow owner instead of duplicated rules.

Frontier rounds are named

The entry point reflects the current source behavior: ask every ready decision in a round, include recommendations, wait for answers, then recompute.

A checkable shared-understanding gate

The wrapper now gives the agent a clear stop condition: an empty frontier plus the user's confirmation before implementation or completion.

Start with Your Plan

1Bring a plan, idea, or design that still contains decisions, dependencies, and constraints.
2Invoke Grill Me explicitly; the wrapper hands the session to the sibling grilling Skill.
3Answer the ready frontier in each round, review the recommendation attached to every question, and let the next frontier follow from your answers.
4Confirm the shared-understanding synthesis only after the frontier is empty, then move to implementation.

Example Command

Grill this launch plan. Ask the independent decisions together, recommend an answer for each, and wait for my confirmation before implementation.

Core Capabilities

Explicitly invoked front door

Start a focused pressure-test for a plan, idea, or design only when the user asks for Grill Me.

Dependency-owned interview

Hand the session to grilling, the sibling Skill that owns questions, recommendations, ordering, and synthesis.

Frontier-based rounds

Ask every decision whose prerequisites are settled, then recompute what is ready after the user answers.

Confirmation before action

Treat an empty decision frontier and explicit user confirmation as the boundary before implementation.

Use Cases

Offer and launch planning

Expose unresolved customer, scope, price, guarantee, and launch-threshold decisions before execution.

Product or feature planning

Pressure-test dependent choices in a sequence that keeps prerequisites visible.

Design direction

Clarify decisions that need confirmation before an interface or visual system is implemented.

Requirements handoff

Turn a rough idea into a shared-understanding summary that the user explicitly confirms.

SKILL.md

# Grill Me Skill

## Original package

The original MIT-licensed distribution keeps two separate sibling Skill directories and the root license:

text:
LICENSE
skills/productivity/
├── grill-me/
│   ├── SKILL.md
│   └── agents/openai.yaml
└── grilling/
    ├── SKILL.md
    └── agents/openai.yaml

The grill-me wrapper is intentionally thin and user-invoked. Its source calls the Skill tool with grilling. The sibling grilling source owns the design-tree interview, frontier rounds, recommendations, fact-finding boundary, and shared-understanding confirmation.

## Focused edition

The optimized wrapper keeps the sibling dependency and picker metadata unchanged. It clarifies the entry scope, handoff ownership, current batch/frontier behavior, and the existing empty-frontier plus user-confirmation completion gate. No second interview, script, asset, or collection bundle is added.

SuperpowersA broader engineering workflow suite for planning, implementation, review, and verification.PonytailA lightweight YAGNI ladder for choosing the smallest implementation that satisfies the brief.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does Grill Me Skill do?

Grill Me Skill is Matt Pocock's explicit entry point for pressure-testing a plan, idea, or design. It hands the conversation to grilling, which asks ready decisions in rounds and keeps the final confirmation visible.

Why does the download include the grilling Skill?

grill-me is a thin front door that calls the sibling grilling Skill. The sibling owns the interview, design tree, frontier ordering, recommendations, and shared-understanding gate, so the distribution includes both separate directories plus their picker files and the MIT notice.

Does Grill Me ask one question or a batch?

The current grilling source works in rounds: it asks the whole ready frontier together, numbers each question and recommendation, waits for the user's answers, and recomputes the next frontier.

When is the planning session finished?

When every branch has been visited, the frontier is empty, and the user confirms the shared-understanding synthesis. Grill Me should not move into implementation before that confirmation.

Where is Matt Pocock's original source?

The canonical source is Matt Pocock's MIT-licensed repository at https://github.com/mattpocock/skills, pinned here to an immutable revision. The entry point is skills/productivity/grill-me, and its sibling dependency is skills/productivity/grilling.

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Trigger Phrases

Use these phrases to activate this skill in your AI coding assistant:

Grill this launch plan.Grill this product idea before we build it.Pressure-test this design direction.