grilling SKILL.md skillA

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

Install it, pinned

mdr add aethrox/doctrine/grilling@git:20260809.2a45dbb

Pins git:20260809.2a45dbb in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: aethrox/doctrine
Path: skills/grilling/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 3
Latest version: git:20260809.2a45dbb, committed Aug 9, 2026
First version recorded: Aug 9, 2026
Size: 4,652 bytes
Repository stars: 19
License: MIT

Interview the user relentlessly, in rounds, to close the gap between what's known and what's needed before acting on a plan, decision, or idea. Use when the user wants to stress-test their thinking, a plan has unstated assumptions, or a decision keeps getting acted on before it's actually been made.

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

An interview isn't a checklist of questions read out in order; it's closing a specific gap between what's already known and what's needed before acting. This skill's defining constraint, from BABOK's elicitation discipline: every question earns its place by targeting that gap, and nothing gathered is treated as settled until it's played back and confirmed. This is a business-analysis technique for the same reason it applies here: an unconfirmed answer is often not the answer that was meant.

## Phase 1: Map the gap before asking anything

Before the first question, identify what's already known (from the conversation, the codebase, prior decisions) versus what's genuinely missing. A question that's already answerable from context doesn't belong in the interview, asking it anyway wastes the user's attention on ground already covered, and signals the interviewer wasn't listening.

Structure the missing pieces as a **decision tree**: each open decision, and which other open decisions it depends on. A decision with no unresolved dependency is on the **frontier**: answerable right now, without guessing at something not yet heard.

## Phase 2: Elicit in rounds
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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add aethrox/doctrine/grilling@sha256:309fe62e6af8a0ce

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260809.2a45dbb, 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](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_lqohxgh2mcfzbkw4.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_lqohxgh2mcfzbkw4)

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, all committed on Aug 9, 2026.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20260809.2a45dbb latest	2026-08-09	2a45dbb	4,652 B	A	view · diff
git:20260809.5c2aad2	2026-08-09	5c2aad2	4,527 B	A	view · diff
git:20260809.21f29b0	2026-08-09	21f29b0	4,574 B	A	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 (4652 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

aethrox/doctrine · 19 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-11 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_lqohxgh2mcfzbkw4
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=aethrox/doctrine/grilling
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/309fe62e6af8a0ceed3f1eda4efad96d32d6cfe2bfd812f9f9e54bd3077c7136

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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