Agent skill

Grill With Docs

by alirezarezvani in alirezarezvani/claude-skills

Docs-anchored grilling session — challenges a plan against the project's existing language (CONTEXT.md) and recorded decisions (docs/adr/), and updates those files inline as terminology and…

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Install Grill With Docs

skills CLI
$ npx skills add alirezarezvani/claude-skills --skill grill-with-docs -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install alirezarezvani/claude-skills grill-with-docs --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alirezarezvani/claude-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/engineering/grill-with-docs/skills/grill-with-docs .claude/skills/grill-with-docs && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
grill-with-docs
GitHub stars
28k
Token cost
~1.8k tokens
SKILL.md length
742 words
Files
9 (incl. scripts, references)
Skills in repo
342
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Docs-anchored grilling session — challenges a plan against the project's existing language (CONTEXT.md) and recorded decisions (docs/adr/), and updates those files inline as terminology and…

  • Works in 3 steps: Hard to reverse — the cost of changing… → Surprising without context — a future… → The result of a real trade-off — there…
  • User wants to stress-test a plan against documented domain language
  • SKILL.md covers Domain awareness, During the session and Wrapper Additions
  • Runs Python scripts from its folder

What it does

Grill With Docs is an agent skill from alirezarezvani/claude-skills. Docs-anchored grilling session — challenges a plan against the project's existing language (CONTEXT.md) and recorded decisions (docs/adr/), and updates those files inline as terminology and decisions crystallise. Use when user wants to stress-test a plan against documented domain language, or mentions "grill with docs".

Its SKILL.md is about 1.8k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 10 other files, including scripts and reference files (for example `ADR-FORMAT.md`, `CONTEXT-FORMAT.md` and `references/adr_practice.md`).

It sits in Development, covering Architecture decision records, Requirements gathering and Load testing. The repository describes itself as: 380 Claude Code skills & agent skills & plugins (30+ Agents, 70+ custom commands, 380+ skills, customizable references, scripts)for Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, and 8… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • User wants to stress-test a plan against documented domain language
  • Mentions grill with docs

Example prompts

  • “grill with docs”
  • “/grill-with-docs”

Requirements

  • Python 3

Workflow steps

3 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Hard to reverse — the cost of changing your mind later is meaningful
  2. Surprising without context — a future reader will wonder "why did they do it this way?"
  3. The result of a real trade-off — there were genuine alternatives and you picked one for specific reasons

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 19392f7. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Ships 3 files in scripts/ (Python), which the agent can run.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

    • github.com

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Grill With Docs loads about 1.8k tokens when it runs, and up to ~8k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 84 tokens; SKILL.md has 742 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~84
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.8k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~8k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from alirezarezvani/claude-skills at commit 19392f7, republished under its MIT licence (© alirezarezvani). 742 words, ~1,787 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/grill-with-docs/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 8 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
grill-with-docs
description
Docs-anchored grilling session — challenges a plan against the project's existing language (CONTEXT.md) and recorded decisions (docs/adr/), and updates those files inline as terminology and decisions crystallise. Use when user wants to stress-test a plan against documented domain language, or mentions "grill with docs".
license
MIT
metadata.derived_from
https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/tree/main/skills/engineering/grill-with-docs
metadata.original_author
Matt Pocock (@mattpocock)
metadata.original_license
MIT
metadata.voice
Matt Pocock — relentless, one-at-a-time, codebase-and-docs-first, ADRs only when 3 criteria are met
metadata.version
1.0.0

Grill with Docs

Derived from Matt Pocock's grill-with-docs (MIT, © 2026 Matt Pocock). Matt's interview discipline + docs-anchored grilling rules preserved verbatim under MIT. Additions in this repo: 3 stdlib validators (CONTEXT.md linter, ADR scanner, glossary↔code consistency check), 3 in-depth references each citing 7+ authoritative sources, cs-grill-with-docs agent, /cs:grill-with-docs command. See Wrapper additions below.

<what-to-do>

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. For each question, provide your recommended answer.

Ask the questions one at a time, waiting for feedback on each question before continuing.

If a question can be answered by exploring the codebase, explore the codebase instead.

</what-to-do>
<supporting-info>

Domain awareness

During codebase exploration, also look for existing documentation:

File structure

Most repos have a single context:

/
├── CONTEXT.md
├── docs/
│   └── adr/
│       ├── 0001-event-sourced-orders.md
│       └── 0002-postgres-for-write-model.md
└── src/

If a CONTEXT-MAP.md exists at the root, the repo has multiple contexts. The map points to where each one lives:

/
├── CONTEXT-MAP.md
├── docs/
│   └── adr/                          ← system-wide decisions
├── src/
│   ├── ordering/
│   │   ├── CONTEXT.md
│   │   └── docs/adr/                 ← context-specific decisions
│   └── billing/
│       ├── CONTEXT.md
│       └── docs/adr/

Create files lazily — only when you have something to write. If no CONTEXT.md exists, create one when the first term is resolved. If no docs/adr/ exists, create it when the first ADR is needed.

During the session

Challenge against the glossary

When the user uses a term that conflicts with the existing language in CONTEXT.md, call it out immediately. "Your glossary defines 'cancellation' as X, but you seem to mean Y — which is it?"

Sharpen fuzzy language

When the user uses vague or overloaded terms, propose a precise canonical term. "You're saying 'account' — do you mean the Customer or the User? Those are different things."

Discuss concrete scenarios

When domain relationships are being discussed, stress-test them with specific scenarios. Invent scenarios that probe edge cases and force the user to be precise about the boundaries between concepts.

Cross-reference with code

When the user states how something works, check whether the code agrees. If you find a contradiction, surface it: "Your code cancels entire Orders, but you just said partial cancellation is possible — which is right?"

Update CONTEXT.md inline

When a term is resolved, update CONTEXT.md right there. Don't batch these up — capture them as they happen. Use the format in CONTEXT-FORMAT.md.

CONTEXT.md should be totally devoid of implementation details. Do not treat CONTEXT.md as a spec, a scratch pad, or a repository for implementation decisions. It is a glossary and nothing else.

Offer ADRs sparingly

Only offer to create an ADR when all three are true:

  1. Hard to reverse — the cost of changing your mind later is meaningful
  2. Surprising without context — a future reader will wonder "why did they do it this way?"
  3. The result of a real trade-off — there were genuine alternatives and you picked one for specific reasons

If any of the three is missing, skip the ADR. Use the format in ADR-FORMAT.md.

</supporting-info>
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Wrapper Additions

The additions below are not part of Matt's upstream skill. They operationalize the upstream's rules into deterministic, stdlib-only validators that pair naturally with the interview loop.

Workflow (with wrapper tools)
  1. Pre-flight (before the first question):

    • Run scripts/context_md_linter.py CONTEXT.md if a CONTEXT.md exists — confirms the glossary is well-formed before grilling against it.
    • Run scripts/adr_scanner.py docs/adr/ if docs/adr/ exists — surfaces numbering gaps, malformed ADRs, status-frontmatter inconsistencies.
    • Run scripts/glossary_code_consistency.py --context CONTEXT.md --code src/ — flags defined-but-unused terms (dead glossary) and code-only common nouns that may need definitions. Use these flags as opening grill questions.
  2. During the session (Matt's rules apply):

    • One question per turn, walking depth-first.
    • When a term is sharpened: edit CONTEXT.md immediately; re-run context_md_linter.py if the edit is structural.
    • When an ADR is warranted: write it under docs/adr/; re-run adr_scanner.py to confirm numbering.
  3. Closing:

    • Final glossary_code_consistency.py run to confirm no new orphan terms were introduced.
    • Summarize: terms added/refined, ADRs written, scenarios discussed, open items.
Tools (stdlib-only)
ToolOne-line role
scripts/context_md_linter.pyValidate CONTEXT.md against the CONTEXT-FORMAT.md structure. PASS/WARN/FAIL per rule.
scripts/adr_scanner.pyWalk docs/adr/, check NNNN-slug.md pattern, numbering integrity, body completeness.
scripts/glossary_code_consistency.pyCross-reference bold terms in CONTEXT.md against codebase usage. Flag dead glossary + code-only common nouns.
References (citations behind each rule)
  • references/ubiquitous_language.md — why a glossary belongs in source control (Evans, Vernon, Khononov, Wlaschin, Brandolini, Avram & Marinescu, Fowler)
  • references/adr_practice.md — when an ADR earns its keep (Nygard, Tyree & Akerman, Zimmermann Y-statements, MADR, ThoughtWorks Radar, adr-tools, Backstage)
  • references/context_md_as_artifact.md — CONTEXT.md as living artifact (Khononov on language drift, Kernighan on naming, BoundedContext bliki, Confluent on data contracts, Brandolini on EventStorming glossary)
Companion
  • Agent: cs-grill-with-docs (see ../../agents/cs-grill-with-docs.md)
  • Command: /cs:grill-with-docs (see ../../commands/cs-grill-with-docs.md)

Version: 1.0.0 Derived: Matt Pocock's grill-with-docs (MIT) + this repo's wrapper

© alirezarezvani, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 8 other files (scripts, references) in engineering/grill-with-docs/skills/grill-with-docs of alirezarezvani/claude-skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • ADR-FORMAT.md
  • CONTEXT-FORMAT.md
  • references/adr_practice.md
  • references/context_md_as_artifact.md
  • references/ubiquitous_language.md
  • scripts/adr_scanner.py
  • scripts/context_md_linter.py
  • scripts/glossary_code_consistency.py

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 19392f7

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Questions about Grill With Docs

What does Grill With Docs do?

Docs-anchored grilling session — challenges a plan against the project's existing language (CONTEXT.md) and recorded decisions (docs/adr/), and updates those files inline as terminology and…. Grill With Docs is an agent skill from alirezarezvani/claude-skills.md) and recorded decisions (docs/adr/), and updates those files inline as terminology and decisions crystallise.

When should I use Grill With Docs?

Grill With Docs fits situations like: user wants to stress-test a plan against documented domain language; mentions grill with docs.

How do I install Grill With Docs in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add alirezarezvani/claude-skills --skill grill-with-docs -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (engineering/grill-with-docs/skills/grill-with-docs in alirezarezvani/claude-skills) into .claude/skills/grill-with-docs in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Grill With Docs in Codex?

Run `npx skills add alirezarezvani/claude-skills --skill grill-with-docs -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (engineering/grill-with-docs/skills/grill-with-docs in alirezarezvani/claude-skills) into .agents/skills/grill-with-docs in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Grill With Docs in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add alirezarezvani/claude-skills --skill grill-with-docs -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/grill-with-docs, .gemini/skills/grill-with-docs, .github/skills/grill-with-docs and .opencode/skills/grill-with-docs in your project.

What does Grill With Docs need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Grill With Docs needs Python for the scripts in its folder. Our summary lists: Python 3.

Does Grill With Docs access the network?

SKILL.md names 1 domain. As links in the text: github.com. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Grill With Docs safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. The check reads SKILL.md only: the scripts in the folder are not scanned, so read them before running anything.

What licence does Grill With Docs use?

Grill With Docs is published under the MIT licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Grill With Docs use?

About 1.8k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7.1k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 6.2k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Grill With Docs?

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Who maintains Grill With Docs?

alirezarezvani (a GitHub user) maintains it in alirezarezvani/claude-skills, which has 27,829 GitHub stars. The repository holds 342 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on August 30, 2026.

Source: alirezarezvani/claude-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.