What is grilling?
grilling is a Claude skill by mattpocock that grill the user relentlessly about a plan, decision, or idea. Use when the user wants to stress-test their thinking, or uses any 'grill' trigger phrases. It is listed under Engineering practice and has 869,600 installs.
| Type | Claude skill |
|---|---|
| Author | mattpocock |
| Repository | mattpocock/skills |
| Popularity | 869,600 installs |
| Category | Engineering practice |
| Security | Low risk (100/100) |
| Rank | #13 of 1,262 Claude skills; #3 in Engineering practice |
| SKILL.md length | 30 lines |
| License | MIT |
| Last commit | 2026-10-13 |
| Stars this week | +9,154 |
| Installs in the last 24h | 10,000 |
Is grilling safe to install?
grilling scores 100/100 on the MCPMods security check: Low risk. No checks raised a concern. It passed 9 of 9 checks.
Skill results come from a static scan of its SKILL.md for instruction overrides, hidden actions, risky commands and credential access.
| Check | Result |
|---|---|
| No instruction-override phrases | Pass |
| No hidden actions | Pass |
| No pipe-to-shell installers | Pass |
| No obfuscated code | Pass |
| No destructive commands | Pass |
| Doesn't ask for keys or credentials | Pass |
| No network requests | Pass |
| No shell commands | Pass |
| Installs no packages | Pass |
How do I install grilling?
- Install with the skills CLI. Works for Claude Code and other agents that read skills.
npx skills add https://github.com/mattpocock/skills --skill grilling
- Or copy it by hand. Claude Code loads any folder with a SKILL.md from ~/.claude/skills.
git clone https://github.com/mattpocock/skills cp -r skills/skills/productivity/grilling ~/.claude/skills/grilling
- Use it. Claude loads the skill when a task matches its description. You can also name it in your prompt.
Use the grilling skill to …
Or ask Claude to set it up
Paste this into Claude Code and it installs grilling for you:
Install the "grilling" skill from https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/tree/main/skills/productivity/grilling into ~/.claude/skills, then tell me in one line what it does.
More from mattpocock/skills
This repository has at least 9 Claude skills on MCPMods.
- grill-me: A relentless interview to sharpen a plan or design. (Low risk)
- grill-with-docs: A relentless interview to sharpen a plan or design, which also creates docs (ADR's and glossary) as we go. (Low risk)
- improve-codebase-architecture: Scan a codebase for deepening opportunities, present them as a visual HTML report, then grill through whichever one you (Low risk)
- tdd: Test-driven development. Use when the user wants to build features or fix bugs test-first, mentions "red-green-refactor" (Low risk)
- setup-matt-pocock-skills: Configure this repo for the engineering skills: set up its issue tracker, triage label vocabulary, and domain doc layout (Low risk)
- handoff: Compact the current conversation into a handoff document for another agent to pick up. (Low risk)
- triage: Move issues and external PRs through a state machine of triage roles, categorise, verify, grill if needed, and write age (Low risk)
- prototype: Build a throwaway prototype to answer a design question. Use when the user wants to sanity-check whether a state model o (Low risk)