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Grill Me

Bymattpocock·144.9k

Relentless interviewing skill that stress-tests plans and designs through systematic questioning. Walks each branch of the design tree one decision at a time, with recommended answers and codebase exploration when context is available.

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How to Install

Using npx (recommended):

npx skills add github.com/mattpocock/skills --skill grill-me

This will automatically download and install the skill in your .cursor/skills/ directory.

Or install manually:

  1. Copy the skill content below
  2. Create folder: .cursor/skills/grill-me/ in your project
  3. Save as SKILL.md
  4. Cursor auto-discovers skills when you start a chat

Or install globally to ~/.cursor/skills/grill-me/SKILL.md

Official Cursor Skills Docs

SKILL.md

---
name: grill-me
description: Interview the user relentlessly about a plan or design until reaching shared understanding, resolving each branch of the decision tree. Use when user wants to stress-test a plan, get grilled on their design, or mentions "grill me".
---

Interview me relentlessly about every aspect of this plan until we reach a shared understanding. Walk down each branch of the design tree, resolving dependencies between decisions one-by-one. For each question, provide your recommended answer.

Ask the questions one at a time.

If a question can be answered by exploring the codebase, explore the codebase instead.

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product designersux designersproject-manager designers

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