grilling
Grill the user relentlessly about a plan, decision, issue, or idea until nothing is silently assumed — rounds of frontier questions, each with a recommended…
Skill by OpalBolt
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Works with Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, VS Code, OpenCode, Goose, Windsurf. Read the repository before you give any tool access to your data.
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What this skill can do and what it asks for, from its SKILL.md. Checked Oct 25, 2026.
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- Skill name
grilling- Description
- Grill the user relentlessly about a plan, decision, issue, or idea until nothing is silently assumed — rounds of frontier questions, each with a recommended answer. The convergent mode (jam-with-me is the divergent one). Use when the user wants to stress-test their thinking, uses any 'grill' trigger phrase, or wants an issue refined into an implementation-ready spec ('refine issue
- License
- MIT
- Instructions
- 21 lines in SKILL.md · view on GitHub
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- SKILL.md
SKILL.md (first lines)
Interview the user relentlessly until you reach a shared understanding. Map this as a **design tree**: every decision branches into the decisions that hang off it. If the subject is a tracked issue (number or URL), fetch its current text first (`gh issue view`) and grill what's written, not what's remembered. Work the tree in **rounds**. The **frontier** is every decision whose prerequisites are already settled — the questions you can ask _now_. Ask the whole frontier in one round: number each question and give your recommended answer. Then wait for the user's answers before the next round. Format each question like so: ``` ❓ **Q1** - **<question title>**: <question body, might be multiple paragraphs, including multiple choices> ➡️ <your recommended answer> ``` Each round the user answers reshapes the tree: settled decisions push the frontier outward and unblock questions that depended on them. Recompute the frontier and ask the next round. A question that depends on another question in this round belongs to the next round. Finding _facts_ is your job, never the user's. When a frontier question needs a fact from the environment (filesystem, tools, etc.), dispatch a sub-agent to find it. Don't block on it: a running exploration is an unsettled prerequisite, so only the questions downstream of it wait for the sub-agent to report; ask the rest of the frontier now. The _decisions_ are the user's: put each to them and wait. The session is done when the frontier is empty: every branch of the design tree visited, nothing left silently assumed. Do not act on it until the user confirms you have reached a shared understanding.
From OpalBolt/Personal-AI-Marketplace, MIT.
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- Last commit (this folder)
- Aug 20, 2026 (2 months ago)
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- MIT
- First seen
- Oct 24, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 24, 2026
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grilling skill. Agent Mart. https://agentmart.dev/skills/opalbolt-grilling (last updated 2026-10-24)