grill-with-docs
Skill0 starsChanged 2 months agoMITView on GitHub
Relentless interview to sharpen a plan with design-tree frontier rounds. Writes CONTEXT.md, a glossary, and ADRs as you go. Use when a feature still needs a plan, the user wants a deep planning interview, or they ask for /grill-with-docs.
195 other projects use a version of this, 1 of them edited.
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- xiaoxiaosrm/dsh-mattpocock-skillstheir own version, first seen Nov 8, 2026
- ishandutta2007/Awesome-Claude-Skillstheir own version, first seen Nov 8, 2026
- domengabrovsek/agent-configtheir own version, first seen Nov 8, 2026
- domengabrovsek/claudetheir own version, first seen Nov 8, 2026
- The-Vibe-Company/quivrtheir own version, first seen Nov 8, 2026
- Hoerire/Azurtheir own version, first seen Nov 8, 2026
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Projects with it also use setup-matt-pocock-skills, decision-mapping and 10 more.
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GoogleSkillsetup-matt-pocock-skills
Configure this repo for the engineering skills — set up its issue tracker, triage label vocabulary, and domain doc layout. Run once before first use of the other engineering skills.
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FabienDehopreSkilldecision-mapping
Turn a loose idea into a sequenced map of investigation tickets, then drive them to resolution one at a time.
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LesaniSkillwriting-beats
Shape an article as a journey of beats, choose-your-own-adventure style. The user picks a starting beat from the raw material, you write only that beat, then offer options for where to pivot next, beat by beat, until the article reaches a natural end. Use when the user has raw material and wants to assemble it as a narrative rather than an argument.
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liufeng1976Skillsetup-ts-deep-modules
Wire dependency-cruiser into a TypeScript repo so each package is a deep module — implementation hidden in subfolders, reachable only through its entry-point files. User-invoked.
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simo97Skillmigrate-to-shoehorn
Migrate test files from `as` type assertions to @total-typescript/shoehorn. Use when user mentions shoehorn, wants to replace `as` in tests, or needs partial test data.
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LesaniSkillwriting-shape
Take a markdown file of raw material and shape it into an article through a conversational session — drafting candidate openings, growing the piece paragraph by paragraph, arguing about format (lists, tables, callouts, quotes) at each step. Use when the user has a pile of notes, fragments, or a rough draft and wants help turning it into something publishable.
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Other versions195 projects use a version of this.
Word for word · 0
None found.
Edited · 1
- stevesolun/ctx★ 58310% same
Wrote their own version · 194
- mattpocock/skills★ 309ksame name
- QuivrHQ/quivr★ 40ksame name
- The-Vibe-Company/quivr★ 40ksame name
- GreyDGL/PentestGPT★ 16ksame name
- formbricks/formbricks★ 13ksame name
- ArcReel/ArcReel★ 6.3ksame name
- vinvcn/mattpocock-skills-zh-CN★ 5.5ksame name
- withcoral/coral★ 4.9ksame name
- bestofjs/bestofjs★ 3.1ksame name
- bholmesdev/hubble.md★ 1.5ksame name
184 more not listed
How matches are found. Word for word: the exact same text. Edited: shares passages with this file (“99% same” means 99% of its five-word phrases also appear here; 10% or more counts). Their own version: similar meaning, or, weakest, the same name. We can’t tell which project had it first. Projects are counted among the 200 most-starred candidates, and mentions are links to the repository we found, up to 50 per site, so both counts are a floor.
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The file
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
10 rules. 0 are common, 6 are distinctive, and 4 are very specific to this project.
0
Common
Most of the 181 edited versions we read keep these.
6
Distinctive
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
4
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Distinctive: line 11
Run the interview in this session.
- Very specific: line 24
Use codebase-design only when the conversation reaches a module, interface, or seam.
- Distinctive: line 28
Leave the repo with:
- Distinctive: line 38
Use the project's words. When a term is overloaded, resolve it and write it into the glossary.
- Distinctive: line 39
Do not implement code in this skill.
- Distinctive: line 40
If Codebase Memory has no project for cwd, skip it and use repo files.
- Very specific: line 43
Stop when the frontier is empty: every branch visited, nothing silently assumed, and you can implement or write to-spec without inventing …
- Very specific: line 47
Read CONTEXT.md, existing ADRs, and enough of the repo to speak the domain.
- Distinctive: line 49
Ask the next question (or independent frontier) that most reduces that frontier.
- Very specific: line 50
After each answered decision, update CONTEXT.md.
“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 181 edited versions of this file we could read. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
<!-- opencode-bestfriend-overlay:grill-with-docs -->Grill with docs
Run the interview in this session. Compose owned domain-modeling discipline (glossary, CONTEXT.md, ADRs) with relentless design-tree frontier rounds.
Map the decisions as a design tree: every decision branches into the decisions that hang off it. Work the tree in rounds. The frontier is every decision whose prerequisites are already settled — the questions you can ask now without guessing at answers you haven't heard yet. Ask the whole frontier in one round: number each question and give your recommended answer. Then wait for the user's answers before the next round.
Each frontier question should follow this format:
❓ **Q1** - **<question title>**: <question body, options, trade-offs>
➡️ <your recommended answer>Use codebase-design only when the conversation reaches a module, interface, or seam. Architecture DAGs still use the OpenCode plan agent, not this skill.
Goal
Leave the repo with:
CONTEXT.md— problem, decisions, open questions, glossary- ADRs under
docs/adr/(oradr/if that already exists) for hard-to-reverse choices
Rules
- You gather facts. The user makes decisions.
- Finding facts is your job: when a frontier question needs a fact from the environment (filesystem, git, config), inspect it directly or dispatch a subagent; do not ask the user for facts you can look up.
- One question at a time when the answer branches. Batch only independent frontier questions.
- Use the project's words. When a term is overloaded, resolve it and write it into the glossary.
- Do not implement code in this skill.
- If Codebase Memory has no project for cwd, skip it and use repo files.
- Architecture DAGs use the OpenCode plan agent, not this skill.
- Ordinary writes stay in-session after the interview.
- Stop when the frontier is empty: every branch visited, nothing silently assumed, and you can implement or write
to-specwithout inventing decisions.
Loop
- Read
CONTEXT.md, existing ADRs, and enough of the repo to speak the domain. - State the frontier: what you believe, what is undecided, what would change the design.
- Ask the next question (or independent frontier) that most reduces that frontier.
- After each answered decision, update
CONTEXT.md. If the decision is hard to reverse, write an ADR. - Repeat until the stop condition.
CONTEXT.md shape
# <feature or system>
## Problem
## Decisions
## Open questions
## Glossary
## SourcesADR shape
# ADR <nnn>: <title>
Status: accepted
Date: <ISO date>
## Context
## Decision
## ConsequencesAfter
Tell the user the paths you wrote. If the work is multi-session or they asked for tickets, offer /to-spec then /to-tickets. Otherwise implementation stays in this session; there is no user /implement skill.
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