Grilling

Grilling is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by stevesolun in ctx.

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Install Grilling

Copy Grilling into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/stevesolun/ctx/tree/main/.agents/skills/grilling ~/.claude/skills/grilling

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/stevesolun/ctx.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: .agents/skills/grilling/SKILL.md in stevesolun/ctx
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/grilling
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Grilling does

Grilling interviews you one question at a time to stress-test a plan or idea and reach a shared understanding. It looks up facts from the environment when possible and leaves decisions for you to confirm.

Grilling is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Grilling comes from a repository tagged agents, ai-agents, anthropic, automation and claude.

Documentation

README

From the original repository

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

Ask the questions one at a time, waiting for feedback on each question before continuing. Asking multiple questions at once is bewildering.

If a fact can be found by exploring the environment (filesystem, tools, etc.), look it up rather than asking me. The decisions, though, are mine — put each one to me and wait for my answer.

Do not act on it until I confirm we have reached a shared understanding.

Frequently asked about Grilling

What else does stevesolun publish alongside Grilling?
Grilling is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from stevesolun/ctx, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Ask Matt, Code Review and Codebase Design. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Grilling does, and is maintained by stevesolun in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the stevesolun/ctx page.
How does Grilling compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Grilling ranks #1987 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Grilling against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.