Plan review skill

Grill Me

Matt Pocock's viral /grill-me skill: one-question-at-a-time interviews that stress-test a plan before any code is written.

Last reviewed: 2026-07-17

What it does

grill-me lives in mattpocock/skills and runs a relentless grilling session: the agent walks every branch of a plan, resolves dependencies one decision at a time, reads the repo when context is available, and offers a recommended answer so the interview keeps moving.

Best fit

Developers who want to surface hidden assumptions in a design or feature plan before agentic coding starts.

Capabilities

  • User-invoked /grill-me skill for design reviews, architecture checks, and pre-implementation planning.
  • Asks one question at a time until shared understanding is reached across the decision tree.
  • Explores the codebase to answer questions itself instead of wasting your time on obvious context.
  • Pairs well with grill-with-docs for updating CONTEXT.md and ADRs during the same session.

Use cases

  • Run /grill-me on a feature idea before letting Claude Code or Cursor touch files.
  • Install with: npx skills add https://github.com/mattpocock/skills --skill grill-me
  • Use after OpenSpec or BMAD planning to catch gaps the written spec still missed.
  • Compare with Superpowers brainstorming when you need adversarial questioning instead of gentle spec drafting.

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