grill SKILL.md skillA

grill from technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins/grill@git:20261028.1458c1b

Pins git:20261028.1458c1b in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins
Path
plugins/stay-principled/skills/grill/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
2
Latest version
git:20261028.1458c1b, committed Oct 28, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 11, 2026
Size
6,606 bytes
Repository stars
12
License
MIT

Walk a depth-first decision tree anchored to a project's documented principles before brainstorming opens options. Reads docs/agents/principles.md (or probes docs/principles.md and docs/ops-principles.md directly), shortlists principles relevant to the topic, asks one question at a time with a recommended answer per question, surfaces conflicts emergently, and outputs a brief that downstream brainstorming or planning can consume. Use when starting design work and the project has principles…

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 with Principles

Walk a depth-first decision tree using the project's principles as the tree roots, before brainstorming opens. The mechanism is grill-me's: one question at a time, recommended answer per node, explore the codebase instead of asking when the answer is there. The anchor is principles, not generic decisions.

## Why this exists

Brainstorming-style breadth-first menus drag conversations toward implementation variants. Depth-first walking with principle anchoring stays at the *why* level. Principles loaded as upfront context are necessary but not sufficient: they need to act as a forcing function during decision moments, not as wallpaper.

## Process

### 1. Discover principles

- Read `docs/agents/principles.md` if it exists. This is the canonical config written by `stay-principled:setup`.
- Otherwise probe `docs/principles.md` and `docs/ops-principles.md` directly.
- Resolve all paths against `git rev-parse --show-toplevel` so worktree invocations find the right files.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins/grill@sha256:057a31780f8221b8

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261028.1458c1b, 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.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_gvve4b3azo4o6qdo.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_gvve4b3azo4o6qdo)

4 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Sep 11, 2026 and Oct 28, 2026, about one every 47 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261028.1458c1b latest2026-10-28 1458c1b 6,606 BA view · diff
git:20260911.167fad72026-09-11 167fad7 6,556 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 (6606 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

technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins · 12 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-28 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_gvve4b3azo4o6qdo
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins/grill
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/057a31780f8221b82471508efcc48eaf4aca0b83f406753e7c89299a6e10d966

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.

More from technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins

CLAUDE.md CLAUDE.md file
technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins · CLAUDE.md
git:20261028.1458c1b · audit B · 12 stars
actually-lsp-doctor SKILL.md skill
technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins · plugins/actually-lsp/skills/actually-lsp-doctor/SKILL.md · Diagnose and fix LSP setup for the current project's detected ecosystems (Rust, TypeScript, Ruby). Use when the…
git:20260606.7aa49c5 · audit A · 12 stars
actually-lsp-ignore SKILL.md skill
technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins · plugins/actually-lsp/skills/actually-lsp-ignore/SKILL.md · Ignore actually-lsp nudges for an ecosystem in this project. Use when the user wants to silence, dismiss, or ignore the…
git:20260527.b9e4e32 · audit A · 12 stars
harness-binary-spelunking SKILL.md skill
technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins · plugins/agent-meta/skills/harness-binary-spelunking/SKILL.md · Use when investigating an agent-harness CLI's internals (Claude Code, codex, opencode, or similar): extracting the…
git:20260820.f29e5a0 · audit A · 12 stars
park SKILL.md skill
technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins · plugins/agent-meta/skills/park/SKILL.md · Save current work context for later resumption
git:20261026.070762d · audit A · 12 stars
snapshot SKILL.md skill
technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins · plugins/agent-meta/skills/snapshot/SKILL.md · Capture current session state without stopping
git:20260416.0d333b7 · audit A · 12 stars
unpark SKILL.md skill
technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins · plugins/agent-meta/skills/unpark/SKILL.md · Resume work from a parked handoff
git:20261028.1458c1b · audit A · 12 stars
automic-vault-credentials SKILL.md skill
technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins · plugins/automic-vault/skills/automic-vault-credentials/SKILL.md · Use when a command mentions `av`, Automic Vault or automic-vault, when a task needs a credential (GitHub token, API…
git:20261017.efc9ce0 · audit A · 12 stars
developing-pipelines SKILL.md skill
technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins · plugins/buildkite/skills/developing-pipelines/SKILL.md · Use when creating, modifying, or debugging Buildkite pipeline YAML files - ensures current syntax from official docs…
git:20261028.8d13327 · audit A · 12 stars
investigating-builds SKILL.md skill
technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins · plugins/buildkite/skills/investigating-builds/SKILL.md · Use when the user is working with an existing Buildkite CI run and wants to understand, diagnose, or act on it. Strong…
git:20261028.3c582f7 · audit A · 12 stars
fixing-ci SKILL.md skill
technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins · plugins/ci-cd-tools/skills/fixing-ci/SKILL.md · Use when CI is failing on a branch, PR, or specific Buildkite build and the user wants to iteratively fix it through…
git:20261028.3c582f7 · audit A · 12 stars
come-on SKILL.md skill
technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins · plugins/come-on/skills/come-on/SKILL.md · Use when a reply will hand the user a result they'll act on or repeat to others. You MUST load this at the start of the…
git:20261017.f542c5e · audit A · 12 stars

Every file in technicalpickles/pickled-claude-plugins

Other files named grill

grill SKILL.md skill
sethgammon/citadel · skills/grill/SKILL.md · Relentless one-question-at-a-time interview that sharpens a vague plan or design into shared understanding before any…
git:20260624.60ac718 · audit A · 929 stars
grill SKILL.md skill
moonlight-lupin/agent-skills · plugins/dev-pipeline/skills/grill/SKILL.md · Use when a plan is fuzzy and needs hardening before a spec — decision-tree grilling in frontier rounds, every open…
v1.1.0 · audit A · 114 stars
grill SKILL.md skill
kerberosclaw/kc_ai_skills · grill/SKILL.md · Use when the user says 先討論 / wants to align on a fuzzy idea before building, or before any non-trivial implementation…
v0.2.0 · audit A · 79 stars
grill SKILL.md skill
kanevry/session-orchestrator · skills/grill/SKILL.md · Use when the user wants a plan, design, or PRD stress-tested before any build — relentlessly interrogates one decision…
git:20260916.3ebf0e9 · audit A · 52 stars
grill SKILL.md skill
kanevry/session-orchestrator · .cursor/skills/grill/SKILL.md · Use when the user wants a plan, design, or PRD stress-tested before any build — relentlessly interrogates one decision…
git:20260916.3ebf0e9 · audit A · 52 stars
grill SKILL.md skill
kanevry/session-orchestrator · .codex-plugin/skills/grill/SKILL.md · Use when the user wants a plan, design, or PRD stress-tested before any build — relentlessly interrogates one decision…
git:20260916.3ebf0e9 · audit A · 52 stars
grill SKILL.md skill
kanevry/session-orchestrator · .agents/skills/grill/SKILL.md · Use when the user wants a plan, design, or PRD stress-tested before any build — relentlessly interrogates one decision…
git:20260919.176b605 · audit A · 52 stars
grill SKILL.md skill
varun-singhh/lfg · plugin/skills/grill/SKILL.md · Interviews the user one question at a time, informed by the code graphs, until the goal, users, acceptance criteria and…
git:20261020.f1b0c39 · audit A · 10 stars

Browse by kind, by grade A, or by owner.