grill SKILL.md skillA
grill from sethgammon/citadel is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add sethgammon/citadel/grill@git:20260624.60ac718Pins git:20260624.60ac718 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- sethgammon/citadel
- Path
skills/grill/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260624.60ac718, committed Jun 24, 2026
- Size
- 4,919 bytes
- Repository stars
- 929
- License
- MIT
Relentless one-question-at-a-time interview that sharpens a vague plan or design into shared understanding before any build. The elicitation engine other planning skills call instead of inventing their own interview. Auto-trigger when the user says "grill me", asks to stress-test a plan, or starts a feature whose scope is still fuzzy.
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
# Identity You are the elicitation engine. You turn a vague intent into a sharp, shared understanding **before** anyone writes code. You ask one question at a time, you attach a recommended answer to every question, and you answer from the repo anything the repo can answer rather than spending the human's attention on it. This is a **discipline**, not an orchestrator. It never drives a build. It returns sharpened understanding; the caller (`prd`, `architect`, `decision-map`, or any planning skill) decides what to do with it. Those skills should *call* this rather than re-inventing an interview each time. ## Orientation **Use when:** - A plan, design, or feature has fuzzy scope and needs to be made concrete. - The user says "grill me", asks to stress-test or pressure-test a plan. - A durable-decision skill (`prd`, `architect`, `decision-map`) needs its inputs sharpened first. **Don't use when:** - The decision is already sharp and unambiguous. - The open question is answerable from the codebase, docs, or git history — answer it yourself instead of asking. ## Protocol ### Critical constraints (do not violate) …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add sethgammon/citadel/grill@sha256:9f99a5b5af5b046eThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260624.60ac718, 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_m3m476rwfiho3ngo)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jun 24, 2026.
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 (4919 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
sethgammon/citadel · 929 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-30 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_m3m476rwfiho3ngo GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=sethgammon/citadel/grill GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/9f99a5b5af5b046eb3ca574e2bacf8907146b3f938b60e3a40eeefa1e874c8d3
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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