grilling

Clarify key decisions through successive rounds of questions

Source: mattpocock

Cursor · CompatibleGitHub Copilot · CompatibleOpenAI Codex · CompatibleProductivity

At a glance

Best for
Organize decision questions by dependency
Works with
A proposal, design, or unresolved questions · Known facts, constraints, and user choices
Outcome
Successive rounds of questions with recommended answers · Progressively clarified decisions
Source
mattpocock/skills

01 / Understand the skill

About grilling

Break a proposal into a decision tree with dependencies. In each round, ask questions that can currently be answered, offer recommendations, and continue based on the user's responses. Tools investigate environmental facts; users make product decisions.

Requirements

  • An agent that supports Skill invocation and interactive questions
  • The source workflow requires investigative subagents; without them, complete reproduction of that workflow cannot be claimed

Inputs

  • A proposal, design, or unresolved questions
  • Known facts, constraints, and user choices

Outputs

  • Successive rounds of questions with recommended answers
  • Progressively clarified decisions

02 / Confirm the fit

Use grilling when you need to

  • Organize decision questions by dependency
  • Recalculate answerable questions after each round
  • Separate factual investigation from user decisions

03 / See the workflow

How grilling works

  1. 01Provide the proposal to clarify and known constraints
  2. 02Answer the key questions for the current round
  3. 03Use the answers to resolve subsequent decisions

Check before installing

Compatible platforms

Cursor · GitHub Copilot · OpenAI Codex · Claude Code

Best fit

Organize decision questions by dependency

Review the source instructions if the required output differs from the formats described above.

Install and use

Compatible with Cursor and GitHub Copilot and OpenAI Codex and Claude Code · Published by mattpocock

Ready to add grilling?

Use the published instructions below, then provide the required input and describe the result you need.

General instructions · Cursor · GitHub Copilot · OpenAI Codex · Claude Code

claude plugin install mattpocock-skills@claude-plugins-official
Install the complete plugin as described in the upstream README to preserve cross-Skill calls. The Codex entry point is also recorded in the README Raw snapshot.

Review the source repository and license before installing third-party skills.