RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION / Matt Pocock
Matt Pocock Grilling
Interviews the user through dependency-ordered decisions before the agent acts on a plan or idea.
“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”
01 / THE REASONING
Why this made the selection.
- Only asks decisions whose prerequisites are settled, so answers do not depend on unanswered questions from the same round.
- Separates facts the agent should investigate from choices the user must make, and waits for agreement before implementation.
02 / THE REVIEW RECORD
What we actually inspected.
Source review has boundaries.
A clear record is more useful than a “safe” badge.
Material inspected
- skills/productivity/grilling/SKILL.md
- skills/productivity/grilling/agents/openai.yaml
- skills/engineering/setup-matt-pocock-skills/SKILL.md
- skills/engineering/setup-matt-pocock-skills/agents/openai.yaml
- skills/engineering/setup-matt-pocock-skills/domain.md
- skills/engineering/setup-matt-pocock-skills/issue-tracker-github.md
- skills/engineering/setup-matt-pocock-skills/issue-tracker-gitlab.md
- skills/engineering/setup-matt-pocock-skills/issue-tracker-local.md
- skills/engineering/setup-matt-pocock-skills/triage-labels.md
- README.md (installation, compatibility and licence sections)
- LICENSE
Our findings
- The complete definition contains the decision-frontier procedure and an explicit user confirmation gate before action.
- This is the reusable grilling skill; the similarly named grill-me entry is an invocation wrapper, not a separate research method.
Not established by this review
- No interview was run and no completeness of requirements was measured.
The review applies to the material and revision named here. A newer upstream release can change its behavior.
03 / PUT IT TO WORK
Add a skill to your workflow.
DOCUMENTED COMMAND
npx skills add https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/tree/c55ee46073ed923f86ce59a5eb3b6d895095d1b7 --skill grilling --skill setup-matt-pocock-skillsCopying does not execute this command. It may retrieve a newer version than the reviewed source.
- Install the grilling directory or use the publisher suite with its grill-me entry point.
- State the plan and boundaries of the interview before invoking it.
- The publisher recommends setup-matt-pocock-skills as a separate companion. Review its repository documentation and issue-tracker changes before running it.
- Choose the intended host and project scope in the installer. The source revision is pinned; the installer itself is not executed or version-pinned by this review.
Before you start
- Node.js/npm and git for the documented Skills installer
- A user available to answer decision questions
- Subagent capability when a decision depends on environment research
- The separately selected setup companion establishes the repository conventions; review its proposed AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md and docs/agents edits before accepting them.
04 / FOLLOW THE EVIDENCE
The source trail.
Our notes are separate from the original resource.
Check upstream before adopting a new version.
https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/c55ee46073ed923f86ce59a5eb3b6d895095d1b7/skills/productivity/grilling/SKILL.md
Supports: summary, upstreamDescription, whySelected, bestFor, limitations, review, access
https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/c55ee46073ed923f86ce59a5eb3b6d895095d1b7/skills/engineering/setup-matt-pocock-skills/SKILL.md
Supports: review, limitations, install, access
https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/c55ee46073ed923f86ce59a5eb3b6d895095d1b7/skills/engineering/setup-matt-pocock-skills/domain.md
Supports: review, limitations, install, access
- Reviewed reference or helper: skills/engineering/setup-matt-pocock-skills/issue-tracker-github.md ↗Checked
https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/c55ee46073ed923f86ce59a5eb3b6d895095d1b7/skills/engineering/setup-matt-pocock-skills/issue-tracker-github.md
Supports: review, limitations, install, access
- Reviewed reference or helper: skills/engineering/setup-matt-pocock-skills/issue-tracker-gitlab.md ↗Checked
https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/c55ee46073ed923f86ce59a5eb3b6d895095d1b7/skills/engineering/setup-matt-pocock-skills/issue-tracker-gitlab.md
Supports: review, limitations, install, access
- Reviewed reference or helper: skills/engineering/setup-matt-pocock-skills/issue-tracker-local.md ↗Checked
https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/c55ee46073ed923f86ce59a5eb3b6d895095d1b7/skills/engineering/setup-matt-pocock-skills/issue-tracker-local.md
Supports: review, limitations, install, access
https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/c55ee46073ed923f86ce59a5eb3b6d895095d1b7/skills/engineering/setup-matt-pocock-skills/triage-labels.md
Supports: review, limitations, install, access
https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/c55ee46073ed923f86ce59a5eb3b6d895095d1b7/README.md
Supports: install, compatibility, access, license
https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/c55ee46073ed923f86ce59a5eb3b6d895095d1b7/LICENSE
Supports: license, access.cost
https://github.com/vercel-labs/skills/blob/7407f3893ad4dceab546ac002c3ef806e4000c73/README.md
Supports: install
https://github.com/vercel-labs/skills/blob/7407f3893ad4dceab546ac002c3ef806e4000c73/src/git.ts
Supports: install
https://github.com/vercel-labs/skills/blob/7407f3893ad4dceab546ac002c3ef806e4000c73/src/source-parser.ts
Supports: install