workflow-grilling SKILL.md skillA
workflow-grilling from kensaurus/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add kensaurus/skills/workflow-grilling@git:20261019.95c89e5Pins git:20261019.95c89e5 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- kensaurus/skills
- Path
skills/workflow-grilling/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261019.95c89e5, committed Oct 19, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 21, 2026
- Size
- 4,141 bytes
- Repository stars
- 9
- License
- MIT
Interview the user about a plan, decision, or idea one question at a time until you agree. Use when "grill me", "stress-test this plan", "interview me about this", "poke holes in this", "challenge my thinking", or before a non-trivial design.
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
# Grilling **Degree of freedom: MIXED.** Which branch to walk and how hard to challenge `[HIGH freedom]`; one-question-at-a-time, recommend-an-answer, and no-act-until-confirmed `[LOW freedom — run exactly]`. > The most common failure mode in software work is misalignment: the agent builds > what it *thinks* was asked. A grilling session closes that gap before any work > starts. Adapted from [mattpocock/skills](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills) (MIT). Interview the user relentlessly about every aspect of the plan, decision, or idea until you reach a shared understanding. Walk down each branch of the decision tree, resolving dependencies between decisions one by one. Copy this checklist and tick items as you go: ``` - [ ] Step 1: Read repo, docs, git history, tickets before the first question - [ ] Step 2: Resolve dependencies in order; upstream decision first - [ ] Step 3: Ask one question at a time, with a recommended answer and why - [ ] Step 4: Challenge vague terms; propose a precise one - [ ] Step 5: Do not act until the user confirms shared understanding - [ ] Step 6: Close with the decision log in the user's words; hand off ``` ## How to reason …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add kensaurus/skills/workflow-grilling@sha256:9d45856ee016df46The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261019.95c89e5, 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 5 versions of this file, between Aug 21, 2026 and Oct 19, 2026, about one every 15 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261019.95c89e5 latest | 2026-10-19 | 95c89e5 | 4,141 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260923.68c095e | 2026-09-23 | 68c095e | 3,661 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260923.cf348bd | 2026-09-23 | cf348bd | 3,729 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260922.0613f76 | 2026-09-22 | 0613f76 | 3,551 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260821.2a41031 | 2026-08-21 | 2a41031 | 3,546 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 (4141 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
kensaurus/skills · 9 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_fxek623zrlyxtg3j GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=kensaurus/skills/workflow-grilling GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/9d45856ee016df46dbec1f752a7f4eaa1bf49e7e696e406dda98b8a3ce92630d
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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