grill-for-unknowns SKILL.md skillA
grill-for-unknowns from pengqianhan/ai-human-research-os is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add pengqianhan/ai-human-research-os/grill-for-unknowns@v0.1.1Pins v0.1.1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- pengqianhan/ai-human-research-os
- Path
research-skills-hub/collected-skills/grill-for-unknowns/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v0.1.1, committed Jul 15, 2026
- Size
- 12,877 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
Use when starting or reviewing a complex implementation where the user wants an agent to interrogate the plan against docs/source evidence, surface unknown unknowns, and avoid rushing into build mode. Combines docs-grounded grilling with a map-vs-territory unknowns pass.
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
# Docs + Unknowns Grill ## Overview The core idea is: - **The map** = the prompt, plan, assumptions, skills, prior context, docs excerpts, and the agent's current mental model. - **The territory** = the real codebase, product constraints, APIs, docs, user taste, deployment environment, and failure modes. - **Unknowns** = the gap between the map and the territory. This skill combines docs-grounded grilling, one-question-at-a-time interviewing, domain modeling, and a four-quadrant unknowns pass. The goal is not to ask endless questions. The goal is to discover the few answers that would materially change the plan (see the **Material** criterion below) — and to write down the shared understanding as it forms. ## When to Use Use when: - The user says not to rush implementation, asks for a stronger plan, or wants a rigorous planning pass before orchestrating implementation work. - The task depends on unfamiliar docs, APIs, libraries, platform behavior, or source conventions. - The user has a vague product/design desire and likely has **unknown knowns**: they will know good/bad when they see it, but cannot fully specify it upfront. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add pengqianhan/ai-human-research-os/grill-for-unknowns@sha256:bc9e9c577dc21da0The line at the top of this page pins the label v0.1.1, 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_ucoc5iuwcqupqoms)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 15, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
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- 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
pengqianhan/ai-human-research-os · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ucoc5iuwcqupqoms GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=pengqianhan/ai-human-research-os/grill-for-unknowns GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/bc9e9c577dc21da07fc9a0a08bc50e1810cbe31e3bd15c9495ee11813fd805e8
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