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Grill Me

A relentless, round-by-round interview that stress-tests any plan or idea.

Community, verifiedby Matt PocockChecked October 18, 2026

One of the most installed skills on skills.sh, from Matt Pocock. Claude maps your plan as a tree of decisions and asks every question it can answer now, each with a recommended answer, until nothing is left assumed.

Who it is for

  • Founders
  • Product managers
  • Developers
  • Anyone making a big decision

Prompts to try

Once the skill is installed, ask for the result in plain words. Claude picks the skill up on its own.

Prompt 1
Grill me on my plan to launch a paid newsletter
Prompt 2
I'm redesigning our onboarding, grill me until the plan is solid
Prompt 3
Stress-test my decision to move our app to a new database

How to install it

In Claude Code

  1. /plugin install mattpocock-skills@claude-plugins-official

In Claude.ai

Not documented

Good to know

Alternative: npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills, then include setup-matt-pocock-skills when prompted.

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How we checked it

Confirmed SKILL.md at skills/productivity/grill-me/SKILL.md in mattpocock/skills via the GitHub API; skill folder last changed 2026-08-15, repo has 295,014 stars and was pushed 2026-10-13; grill-me hands off to the companion grilling skill in the same repo.

Source: github.com/mattpocock/skills/tree/main/skills/productivity/grill-me

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