Grill Me
Stress-test a landing page, dashboard, or product idea through relentless Socratic questioning until decisions and dependencies are explicit.
Overview
Grill Me is a journey-wide agent skill that stress-tests plans and designs through structured interviews—usable whenever a solo builder needs to challenge an approach before committing.
Install
npx skills add https://github.com/julianoczkowski/designer-skills --skill grill-meWhat is this skill?
- Relentless interview loop until shared understanding on the full design tree
- Resolves dependencies between decisions one branch at a time
- Explores the codebase, components, styles, and tokens instead of asking redundant questions
- Provides a recommended answer with each question to keep momentum
- Works for landing pages, dashboards, settings flows, and portfolio concepts
Adoption & trust: 2.2k installs on skills.sh; 269 GitHub stars; 3/3 security scanners passed (skills.sh audits).
What problem does it solve?
You have a rough plan or UI concept but hidden assumptions and unresolved branches will cause rework once you start building.
Who is it for?
Solo builders who want a Socratic sparring partner on a page, flow, or feature idea before locking scope.
Skip if: Fully approved specs with signed-off designs where the only remaining work is execution without further product decisions.
When should I use this skill?
User wants to be grilled on a plan or design, stress-test an approach, challenge their thinking, or says "grill me".
What do I get? / Deliverables
You end with a walked decision tree, clarified dependencies, and agent recommendations grounded in your repo where possible—ready to sketch, spec, or implement.
- Resolved decision-tree notes with dependencies between design choices
- Recommended answers per question and identified gaps still needing human input
Recommended Skills
Journey fit
Useful at every journey phase - explore requirements and options before committing to a direction.
Where it fits
Challenge a rough portfolio or SaaS concept before you validate audience or build a prototype.
Walk every branch of a landing page narrative, CTAs, and edge states before copy and layout work.
Resolve open questions on a team metrics dashboard before wiring charts and permissions.
Grill launch-page claims and onboarding steps so release messaging matches what the product actually does.
How it compares
Use instead of one-shot chat approval—it is an interview workflow, not a visual mockup generator or code scaffold.
Common Questions / FAQ
Who is grill-me for?
Solo and indie builders—especially design-leaning founders—who want their landing pages, dashboards, and product flows challenged before they invest build time.
When should I use grill-me?
In Idea when framing a new product direction; in Validate when scoping a landing or settings redesign; in Build when a PM-style pass is needed before frontend work; and in Ship when revisiting a launch-critical page under time pressure.
Is grill-me safe to install?
Check the Security Audits panel on this Prism page; the skill may read your local codebase to answer questions—keep agent filesystem access aligned with what you are comfortable exposing.
SKILL.md
READMESKILL.md - Grill Me
## Example prompts - "Grill me on this landing page idea" - "I want to build a dashboard for tracking team metrics. Challenge my thinking." - "Stress-test my approach to this settings page" - "I have a rough idea for a portfolio site. Help me think it through." ## Instructions 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. If a question can be answered by exploring the codebase, explore the codebase instead of asking me. If a question can be answered by examining existing components, styles, or design tokens in the project, examine them instead of asking me. For each question, provide your recommended answer.