grill-the-brief SKILL.md skillA
grill-the-brief from onewave-ai/claude-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add onewave-ai/claude-skills/grill-the-brief@git:20260920.97b5147Pins git:20260920.97b5147 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- onewave-ai/claude-skills
- Path
grill-the-brief/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260920.97b5147, committed Sep 20, 2026
- Size
- 3,617 bytes
- Repository stars
- 421
- License
- MIT
Use before building anything from a vague request — a feature, an app, an agent, an automation, a page. Trigger when the user says "build me X" without specifics, when a brief could be read two ways, or when the user asks to be challenged, interrogated, or pushed on requirements before code gets written.
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 the Brief Most rework comes from building the wrong thing confidently. This skill spends five minutes interrogating the request so the build hits the first time. ## Core Behavior Ask questions before writing code — but only the questions whose answers change what gets built. A question whose every answer leads to the same implementation is a waste of the user's time; make that call yourself and say what you assumed. Ask in one batch, not one at a time. Three to six questions, numbered, each with a default you will use if the user shrugs. ## What to Interrogate Work down this list and pull only what is genuinely unresolved: **The actual job.** What does the user do today that this replaces? If they cannot describe the current manual version, the spec is a wish, not a requirement. **Who touches it.** One person, a team, or customers? That single answer decides auth, permissions, and polish level. **Done looks like.** The observable condition that ends the work. If nobody can name it, the project has no end. **Scale and shape of the data.** Ten rows or ten million. One file or a live feed. This decides architecture more than any preference does. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add onewave-ai/claude-skills/grill-the-brief@sha256:0a1c32b16e0af3cdThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260920.97b5147, 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_q7uskcxb3uhjed2f)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 20, 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 (3617 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
onewave-ai/claude-skills · 421 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_q7uskcxb3uhjed2f GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=onewave-ai/claude-skills/grill-the-brief GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/0a1c32b16e0af3cdb048addb7b5efc1845a3a9e2d68cd302303730630af09f9b
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.