grilling SKILL.md skillA

This file is byte-identical to the first copy the registry indexed, one of 7 indexed copies. Same content hash, so the same checks give both the same grade.

grilling from fabiandistler/agents is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add fabiandistler/agents/grilling@git:20261013.8a329a6

Pins git:20261013.8a329a6 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
fabiandistler/agents
Path
.claude/skills/grilling/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
2
Latest version
git:20261013.8a329a6, committed Oct 13, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 30, 2026
Size
2,049 bytes
Repository stars
2
License
none declared

Grill the user relentlessly about a plan, decision, or idea. Use when the user wants to stress-test their thinking, or uses any 'grill' trigger phrases.

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

Interview the user relentlessly until you reach a shared understanding. Map this as a **design tree**: every decision branches into the decisions that hang off it.

Work the tree in **rounds**. The **frontier** is every decision whose prerequisites are already settled: the questions you can ask _now_ without guessing at answers you haven't heard yet. Ask the whole frontier in one round: number each question and give your recommended answer. Then wait for the user's answers before the next round.

Format a round like so:

```
❓ **Q1** - **<question title>**: <question body, might be multiple paragraphs, including multiple choices>

➡️ <your recommended answer>

---

❓ **Q2** - **<question title>**: <question body, might be multiple paragraphs, including multiple choices>

➡️ <your recommended answer>
```

Word each question so "yes" accepts your recommended answer.

Each round the user answers reshapes the tree: settled decisions push the frontier outward and unblock questions that depended on them. Recompute the frontier and ask the next round. A question whose answer depends on another question still open in this round belongs to a _later_ round, not this one.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add fabiandistler/agents/grilling@sha256:befdff1e27a1dfe2

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261013.8a329a6, 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.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Sep 30, 2026 and Oct 13, 2026, about one every 13 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261013.8a329a6 latest2026-10-13 8a329a6 2,049 BA view · diff
git:20260930.0a9e31d2026-09-30 0a9e31d 1,987 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (2049 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

GitHub

fabiandistler/agents · 2 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3ohgrpknto5lwrfd
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=fabiandistler/agents/grilling
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/befdff1e27a1dfe2a294d5871169ac1afe16d983911daa4f32627514a48c1e15

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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