What is the Grill Me skill for Claude Code?

Grill Me is a planning-focused capability that acts as a rigorous interviewer to help developers refine, validate, and stress-test their project plans through structured interrogation.

How does Grill Me handle complex project architectures?

It maps the project into a decision tree and addresses one branch at a time, ensuring every high-impact unknown and dependency is resolved before moving to the next topic.

Does the Grill Me skill write code?

No, this skill is strictly for the planning and design phase. It focuses on resolving logic, dependencies, and architectural branches rather than generating implementation code.

Why is the tone of this skill described as direct and relentless?

The skill is designed to maximize efficiency and clarity by skipping pleasantries and focusing entirely on identifying potential flaws or ambiguities in a technical plan.

Can I use Grill Me for existing codebases?

Yes, you can use it to plan refactors or new features for existing codebases by asking it to grill your proposed implementation or migration strategy.

Grill Me

Name: Grill Me
Author: vechain

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Productivity & Workflow

Conducts rigorous, structured interviews to stress-test project plans and resolve architectural ambiguities before implementation begins.

Grill Me is a specialized planning skill designed to eliminate project uncertainty by subjecting your ideas to a relentless questioning process. It maps out your project's entire decision tree—from architecture and data models to UX and edge cases—and walks down each branch systematically to resolve dependencies. By pushing back on risky assumptions and focusing on one topic at a time, this skill ensures a rock-solid shared understanding is established before a single line of code is written, preventing costly mid-development pivots and ensuring all technical constraints are accounted for.

Key Features

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02Focused Interrogation: Asks targeted, one-at-a-time questions to avoid information overload.

03Assumption Validation: Actively pushes back on ambiguous, risky, or contradictory statements.

04Decision Tree Mapping: Systematically identifies every branch of architecture, data, and UX.

05Progress Tracking: Maintains a clear map of resolved versus open design branches.

06Dependency Resolution: Surfaces and clarifies how specific decisions block or constrain others.

Use Cases

01Stress-testing a new software architecture before starting development.

02Refining complex data models and identifying potential edge cases in logic.

03Translating vague project requirements into a concrete technical specification.

What are Skills?·How to Install

Install with 🐟 Skill.Fish

npx skillfish add vechain/vechain-ai-skills grill-me

For use in Claude.ai and ChatGPT