The grill-me skill comes from Matt Pocock's widely shared prompt for relentlessly interviewing someone about a plan until every branch of the decision tree has been explored. It became popular because it captures something many AI workflows miss: the fastest way to improve an idea is often not to generate more solutioning, but to force the unclear parts into the open.
That makes grill-me especially useful at the beginning of a project, when a feature, architecture, or product direction still sounds good in broad strokes but has not yet survived hard questioning. By pushing on assumptions, unresolved dependencies, and missing decisions, it helps turn a vague idea into something concrete enough to build with confidence.
The grill-me skill is for pressure-testing ideas. It acts like a demanding reviewer that keeps asking follow-up questions until a plan or design becomes sharp enough to execute.
In practice, use it before committing to a complex feature, architecture, or product plan. It is helpful when you want the blind spots found early instead of after implementation has already started.
Install
npx skills add mattpocock/skills@grill-me