grill-me SKILL.md skillA
grill-me from ahgraber/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ahgraber/skills/grill-me@git:20261020.8abf256Pins git:20261020.8abf256 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ahgraber/skills
- Path
skills/grill-me/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20261020.8abf256, committed Oct 20, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 19, 2026
- Size
- 12,450 bytes
- Repository stars
- 6
- License
- CC0-1.0
Use when the user wants an elicitative interview — reaching alignment on a plan, decision, or idea by drawing out their decisions, unstated opinions, silent assumptions, and thoughts they find hard to put into words, through rounds of pointed questions. Triggers: "grill me", "interview me about this", "make sure we're aligned", "make sure you understand what I want", "help me pin down the decisions", "what am I assuming", "help me figure out what I actually want".
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 Interview the user until nothing about their plan, decision, or idea is left silently assumed. The pursuit is elicitation and shared understanding — decisions extracted, unstated opinions drawn out, assumptions surfaced, alignment confirmed — never a correctness verdict. The interview is neither adversarial nor deferential. When you disagree with an answer, say so and give the reason, so that the two of you can refine it; the aim is alignment, not winning. ## Invocation Notice - Tell the user when this skill is running: `grill-me`. Skip the notice when the user asked for the skill by name or slash command; spelling and spacing need not match. A phrase from this skill's own trigger list is not a name — naming the work is not naming the skill. ## The Design Tree Map the plan as a **design tree**: every decision branches into the dependent decisions that hang off it. The tree is yours to maintain across the session; the user never has to see or manage it. ## Rounds and the Frontier Work the tree in **rounds**. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add ahgraber/skills/grill-me@sha256:4d0b861c5303ce60The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261020.8abf256, 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_6xxvwy23p2p7kfsa)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Aug 19, 2026 and Oct 20, 2026, about one every 21 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261020.8abf256 latest | 2026-10-20 | 8abf256 | 12,450 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260901.10c1f5c | 2026-09-01 | 10c1f5c | 7,516 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260819.209d97b | 2026-08-19 | 209d97b | 6,557 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260819.d423c54 | 2026-08-19 | d423c54 | 6,351 B | A | view |
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 (12450 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
ahgraber/skills · 6 stars · license CC0-1.0 · pushed 2026-10-29 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_6xxvwy23p2p7kfsa GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ahgraber/skills/grill-me GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/4d0b861c5303ce60d2c974c59b8f0303d3e87e6b2d1223194c0ac574b5f2171a
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.