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grill-me · julianoczkowski — Claude Code skill: get grilled on your plan

Q: How do I install grill-me in Claude?

Run `npx skills add julianoczkowski/designer-skills --skill grill-me -a claude-code`. The skill file ends up at `~/.claude/skills/grill-me/SKILL.md`.

Interviews you about a plan or design until every branch of the decision tree is resolved. Useful before you start building.

Install into Claude Code · Skills CLI (Vercel) All methods and platforms ↓

npx skills add julianoczkowski/designer-skills --skill grill-me -a claude-code

Open on GitHub

What grill-me does

The skill turns the agent into an interviewer. It walks down the design tree and resolves dependencies between decisions one by one until you share the same picture. Every question comes with a recommended answer, so you still do the thinking.

If a question can be answered by reading the codebase, the agent reads it instead of asking. Same for existing components, styles and design tokens in the project. That makes the skill far more useful inside a repo that already has something to lean on; on an empty project you will get more questions.

Install takes one command with npx skills add, and the skill file lands at ~/.claude/skills/grill-me/SKILL.md. It also ships for Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI and OpenCode. Licensed under Apache-2.0.

What it helps with

stress-test a landing page idea before writing code
surface contradictions in an approach to a settings page
walk the decision tree of a dashboard and close dependencies
pull hidden assumptions out of a rough portfolio sketch
make the agent read the project code instead of guessing

Example prompts for the agent

Grill me on this landing page idea
I want to build a dashboard for tracking team metrics. Challenge my thinking.
Stress-test my approach to this settings page

How to install grill-me

1Skills CLI (Vercel)

npx skills add julianoczkowski/designer-skills --skill grill-me -a claude-code

2Manually: put the files in place

~/.claude/skills/grill-me/SKILL.md

Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/grill-me/

1Skills CLI (Vercel)

npx skills add julianoczkowski/designer-skills --skill grill-me -a codex

2Manually: put the files in place

.agents/skills/grill-me/SKILL.md

For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

1Skills CLI (Vercel)

npx skills add julianoczkowski/designer-skills --skill grill-me -a cursor

2Manually: put the files in place

.cursor/skills/grill-me/SKILL.md

Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

1GitHub CLI

gh skill install julianoczkowski/designer-skills grill-me

2Manually: put the files in place

.github/skills/grill-me/SKILL.md

1Skills CLI (Vercel)

npx skills add julianoczkowski/designer-skills --skill grill-me -a gemini-cli

2Platform CLI

gemini skills install https://github.com/julianoczkowski/designer-skills --path grill-me

Manually: put the files in place

.devin/skills/grill-me/SKILL.md

The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

Skills CLI (Vercel)

npx skills add julianoczkowski/designer-skills --skill grill-me -a opencode

Step by step, with commands for each platform: How to install skills in Claude Code: five ways

Questions about grill-me

How do I install grill-me in Claude?

Run npx skills add julianoczkowski/designer-skills --skill grill-me -a claude-code. The skill file ends up at ~/.claude/skills/grill-me/SKILL.md.

What does grill-me do?

It interviews you about a plan or design, resolving each branch of the decision tree until you reach shared understanding. Each question comes with a recommended answer.

Does the skill ask things it could find in the code?

No. If a question can be answered by exploring the codebase, existing components, styles or design tokens, the agent examines those instead of asking you.

Source text

SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

---
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, challenge an approach, or mentions "grill me".
---

## Example prompts

- "Grill me on this landing page idea"
- "I want to build a dashboard for tracking team metrics. Challenge my thinking."
- "Stress-test my approach to this settings page"
- "I have a rough idea for a portfolio site. Help me think it through."

## Instructions

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.

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

If a question can be answered by examining existing components, styles, or design tokens in the project, examine them instead of asking me.

For each question, provide your recommended answer.

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