grill-the-brief skillA
grill-the-brief is agent-read markdown (skill) from onewave-ai/claude-skills: 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..
Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns 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. …
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How to install
mdr add onewave-ai/claude-skills/grill-the-brief@git:20260920.97b5147mdr add onewave-ai/claude-skills/grill-the-brief@sha256:0a1c32b16e0af3cdPin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_q7uskcxb3uhjed2f)
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Versions
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 · 306 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-23 · 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 agent 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.