grill-me SKILL.md skillA
grill-me from naimkatiman/continuous-improvement is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add naimkatiman/continuous-improvement/grill-me@git:20260511.2223960Pins git:20260511.2223960 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- naimkatiman/continuous-improvement
- Path
plugins/continuous-improvement/skills/grill-me/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260511.2223960, committed May 11, 2026
- Size
- 5,190 bytes
- Repository stars
- 9
- License
- MIT
Enforces Law 1 (Research Before Executing) of the 7 Laws of AI Agent Discipline. Interview the user relentlessly about a plan or design until shared understanding is reached, resolving every branch of the decision tree before any code is written. Ported from mattpocock/skills under MIT.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# /grill-me — Interrogate the plan before executing it
Ported verbatim in behavior from [mattpocock/skills `productivity/grill-me`](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/main/skills/productivity/grill-me/SKILL.md) (MIT, © 2026 Matt Pocock). Cold-storage snapshot at [`third-party/mattpocock-skills/skills/productivity/grill-me/SKILL.md`](../third-party/mattpocock-skills/skills/productivity/grill-me/SKILL.md); SHA pin in [`third-party/MANIFEST.md`](../third-party/MANIFEST.md).
## What this skill does
Interview the user relentlessly about every aspect of the plan until shared understanding is reached. Walk down each branch of the design tree, resolving dependencies between decisions one-by-one. For each question, provide a recommended answer.
Ask questions one at a time.
If a question can be answered by exploring the codebase, explore the codebase instead.
## When to fire it
- The user has just stated a goal at a high level ("add auth", "speed up the API") with no spec underneath.
- A `/proceed-with-the-recommendation` walk is about to start but the recommendation list itself is ambiguous about scope or success criteria.
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add naimkatiman/continuous-improvement/grill-me@sha256:f3a1b793ccbe7e77The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260511.2223960, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_2gaauub2jpozioxd)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on May 11, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (5190 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
naimkatiman/continuous-improvement · 9 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_2gaauub2jpozioxd GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=naimkatiman/continuous-improvement/grill-me GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f3a1b793ccbe7e77c6e9a083b14665a2399df03eafbb6a76dd5579077efc5cb0
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.
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