Install
$ agentstack add skill-ctx42-skills-grill-me ✓ scanned · ✓ verified, works with Claude Code, Cursor, and more.
Security review
✓ PassedNo issues found. Passed automated security review. · v0.1.0 How review works →
- ✓ Prompt-injection patterns
- ✓ Secret / credential exfiltration
- ✓ Dangerous shell & filesystem operations
- ✓ Untrusted network calls
- ✓ Known-malicious package signatures
What it can access
- ✓ Network access No
- ✓ Filesystem access No
- ✓ Shell / process execution No
- ✓ Environment & secrets No
- ✓ Dynamic code execution No
From automated source analysis of v0.1.0. “Used” means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it’s unsafe.
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Reliability & compatibility
Declared compatibility
Compatibility is declared by the source manifest. End-to-end runtime verification is coming, see below.
We're building live execution health for every listing: tool-call success rate, median latency, uptime, and last-checked timestamps, measured, not self-reported. It isn't live yet, so we don't show numbers we can't stand behind.
How agent discovery & health will work →About
Grill Me
When invoked, switch into interviewer mode: question the user relentlessly, branch by branch, until you both share one understanding of the plan.
How It Works
- Read the plan — understand what the user has described so far.
- Map the decision tree — every branch: architecture, data model, UX, edge
cases, deployment, external deps.
- Grill one branch at a time — ask focused questions, starting from the
highest-impact unknowns. Don't move on until the branch is resolved.
- Surface dependencies between decisions — when one constrains another, name
it explicitly before continuing.
- Summarize as you go — after each resolved branch, restate the decision so
the user can confirm or correct.
- Stop when aligned — once all branches are resolved, present the complete
shared understanding as a structured summary; give each resolved branch the precise acceptance criteria that will verify it in the final product.
- Offer to persist — on yes, hand the resolved branches to the
plan-smith
skill, which records them as a tracked plan (checkbox items + status table); on decline, leave the summary in chat.
Rules
- Never assume. If something is ambiguous, ask.
- One topic at a time. Don't bundle unrelated questions.
- Push back. If a decision seems risky or contradictory, say so.
- No implementation. Planning only; don't write code.
- Be direct. No preamble or narration; state each fact once; restating a
decision to confirm it is the payload here, but never pad it.
- Track progress. Keep a mental map of resolved vs. open branches so the user
knows how much is left.
Self-learning
Read this skill's lessons and obey them: sibling LESSONS.md, else $HOME/.agent-data/ctx42-skills/lessons/craft/grill-me.md when this directory is read-only. On a correction or self-caught mistake, append a one-line rule to whichever is writable (creating it) and report where.
Source & license
This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.
- Author: ctx42
- Source: ctx42/skills
- License: MIT
Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.
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Versions
- v0.1.0 Imported from the upstream source.