Interview the user in short rounds to fill in missing context before acting — goal, scope, target environment, constraints, risk, rollback and completion criteria. Finds facts itself with read-only checks and asks the user only for decisions, each with a recommended answer. Use when a request is vague or key information is missing, before planning an L2/L3 change, or when the user asks to be questioned about a plan.
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 — Fill in missing context before acting
<!-- devops-ai-kit · Last reviewed: 2026-10-28 · Idea adapted from mattpocock/skills (grill-me / grilling, MIT). -->
Topic: $ARGUMENTS
Guessing is a common cause of wrong infrastructure changes. Use this skill to turn a vague request into clear decisions before you plan or run anything.
## Rules
- **Facts: find them yourself.** If a read-only command, a file or the docs can answer it (current version, namespace, what the repo does today), check it instead of asking. Use read-only commands only (`00-core` §2). Mark what you found with ✅ / 📖.
- **Decisions: ask the user.** Goal, scope, allowed downtime, which option to choose. Never decide for the user.
- **Ask in rounds.** One round = every question that does not depend on another open question. Usually 2–4 questions per round and 2–4 rounds in total. Do not ask a question that depends on an answer you do not have yet.
- **Give a recommendation** for every question, with the reason in one short line.
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The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261028.34f57d4, 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.
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_lt5drqybtoe6q6kt
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=hoangminhung/devops-ai-kit/grill-me
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/08fee049c72f5e5d679dbe6734be468311d3280e292f7fd14a1126a8c868259f
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