--- title: "Matt Pocock Grilling: review, setup & limitations · Undominated.ai" canonical: https://undominated.ai/skills/mattpocock-grilling/ description: "Interviews the user through dependency-ordered decisions before the agent acts on a plan or idea." --- # Matt Pocock Grilling: review, setup & limitations · Undominated.ai > Interviews the user through dependency-ordered decisions before the agent acts on a plan or idea. [← Explore all skills](/skills/) RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION / Matt Pocock # Matt Pocock Grilling Interviews the user through dependency-ordered decisions before the agent acts on a plan or idea. See setup guidance ↓Original source ↗ SOURCE REVIEW Reviewed 2026-09-21 Evidence 12 linked sources Publisher Matt Pocock Licence MIT ↗ Revision c55ee46073ed Read what was—and wasn’t—checked ↓ “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” Matt Pocock · upstream description ↗ Our analysis follows below. 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. ### A good fit for - Stress-testing an early product or implementation plan - Finding unresolved decisions before work is delegated ### Weigh up before choosing - The interview has no built-in round cap and can be too demanding for a small task; choose its scope deliberately. - Recommended answers may anchor the user. Environment research assumes subagent support and access to the relevant files or tools. 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. Upstream setup instructions ↗ DOCUMENTED COMMAND npx skills add https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/tree/c55ee46073ed923f86ce59a5eb3b6d895095d1b7 --skill grilling --skill setup-matt-pocock-skills Copy command ↗ Copying 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. ### Compatibility Claude Code · Codex ### Conversation; optional environment research - Ask the user decision questions - Delegate read-only investigation of environment facts when authorized ### Cost model MIT-licensed instructions; agent and delegated research calls use the selected host or API. 04 / FOLLOW THE EVIDENCE ## The source trail. Our notes are separate from the original resource. Check upstream before adopting a new version. - Skill definition at reviewed revision ↗ Checked 2026-09-21 https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/c55ee46073ed923f86ce59a5eb3b6d895095d1b7/skills/productivity/grilling/SKILL.md Supports: summary, upstreamDescription, whySelected, bestFor, limitations, review, access - Reviewed reference or helper: skills/engineering/setup-matt-pocock-skills/SKILL.md ↗ Checked 2026-09-21 https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/c55ee46073ed923f86ce59a5eb3b6d895095d1b7/skills/engineering/setup-matt-pocock-skills/SKILL.md Supports: review, limitations, install, access - Reviewed reference or helper: skills/engineering/setup-matt-pocock-skills/domain.md ↗ Checked 2026-09-21 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 2026-09-21 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 2026-09-21 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 2026-09-21 https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/c55ee46073ed923f86ce59a5eb3b6d895095d1b7/skills/engineering/setup-matt-pocock-skills/issue-tracker-local.md Supports: review, limitations, install, access - Reviewed reference or helper: skills/engineering/setup-matt-pocock-skills/triage-labels.md ↗ Checked 2026-09-21 https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/c55ee46073ed923f86ce59a5eb3b6d895095d1b7/skills/engineering/setup-matt-pocock-skills/triage-labels.md Supports: review, limitations, install, access - Publisher installation, compatibility and licensing guidance ↗ Checked 2026-09-21 https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/c55ee46073ed923f86ce59a5eb3b6d895095d1b7/README.md Supports: install, compatibility, access, license - Upstream licence at reviewed revision ↗ Checked 2026-09-21 https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/c55ee46073ed923f86ce59a5eb3b6d895095d1b7/LICENSE Supports: license, access.cost - Skills installer: source formats and repeated skill selection ↗ Checked 2026-09-21 https://github.com/vercel-labs/skills/blob/7407f3893ad4dceab546ac002c3ef806e4000c73/README.md Supports: install - Skills installer: full commit SHA checkout support ↗ Checked 2026-09-21 https://github.com/vercel-labs/skills/blob/7407f3893ad4dceab546ac002c3ef806e4000c73/src/git.ts Supports: install - Skills installer: tree revision and subdirectory parsing ↗ Checked 2026-09-21 https://github.com/vercel-labs/skills/blob/7407f3893ad4dceab546ac002c3ef806e4000c73/src/source-parser.ts Supports: install KEEP COMPARING ## Other approaches to consider. Related by category or shared topics. These are alternatives to inspect, not a measured quality order. [### Matt Pocock Domain Modeling ↗ Builds a project glossary and short architecture decision records while testing domain terms against code and concrete edge cases.](/skills/mattpocock-domain-modeling/)[### Anthropic Documentation Coauthoring ↗ Guides a human and agent through audience discovery, section-by-section drafting and a separate-reader review of a substantial document.](/skills/anthropics-doc-coauthoring/)[### Microsoft Docs Research ↗ Finds current Microsoft documentation with task-specific queries and retrieves full pages when excerpts are insufficient.](/skills/microsoft-microsoft-docs/) [AI Tools ↗](/tools/)[Skills ↗](/skills/)[Agents ↗](/agents/)[MCP Servers ↗](/mcp-servers/)