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Grill Me

mattpocock144.9k

Relentless interviewing skill that stress-tests plans and designs through systematic questioning. Walks each branch of the design tree one decision at a time, with recommended answers and codebase exploration when context is available.

How to install

npx skills add github.com/mattpocock/skills --skill grill-me

Installs to .cursor/skills/

Manual install
  1. Copy SKILL.md below
  2. .cursor/skills/grill-me/SKILL.md
Cursor docs

SKILL.md

---
name: grill-me
description: Interview the user relentlessly about a plan or design until reaching shared understanding, resolving each branch of the decision tree. Use when user wants to stress-test a plan, get grilled on their design, or mentions "grill me".
---

Interview me relentlessly about every aspect of this plan until we reach a shared understanding. Walk down each branch of the design tree, resolving dependencies between decisions one-by-one. For each question, provide your recommended answer.

Ask the questions one at a time.

If a question can be answered by exploring the codebase, explore the codebase instead.

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