Grill Me

SkillMedia

Interview the user relentlessly about a plan or design until every branch of the decision tree has an explicit recorded decision and no open questions remain. Use when user wants to stress-test a plan, get grilled on their design, or mentions "grill me".

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.

Then ask your AI: use the Grill Me skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by paulrberg/agent-skills in skills/grill-me/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

This skill is coordination-exempt: skip the ai-coord gate for its declared work.

Stress-test the plan one decision at a time until every material branch is resolved.

Workflow

  1. Extract the current objective, constraints, assumptions, and already-made decisions. Investigate any answer discoverable from the codebase or supplied evidence instead of asking the user.
  2. Maintain a running decision record with: decision, chosen option, rationale, dependencies, and consequences. Update it after every answer; do not reopen a recorded decision unless new evidence conflicts with it.
  3. Ask exactly one question at a time. Format the turn as ### 🔥 Decision <N> — <topic>, then Recommended, Why, Tradeoff, and Question. Choose the highest-leverage unresolved branch whose answer constrains the most downstream decisions. After each answer, acknowledge ✅ Recorded: <choice> — <consequence> before the next card. Show settled and currently open counts when useful; never show a percentage because the decision tree can grow.
  4. Continue through scope, users, interfaces, data/state, failure modes, security, operations, migration, testing, rollout, ownership, and stopping criteria only where they are material to this design.
  5. When no material open branches remain, return ### ✅ Decision record with a decision/choice/rationale/consequence table, then ### ⚠️ Risks, accepted unknowns with owner/resolution point, rejected alternatives that matter, and ### 🏁 Completion criteria. Do not end with another question.

Completion requires every material branch to have a recorded decision or an explicitly accepted unknown with an owner and resolution point.

Signals

GitHub stars
70
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Last commit
Sep 2026
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Source
github.com/paulrberg/agent-skills