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Matt Pocock’s grill-series skill is meant to make the AI keep grilling you until a problem is actually thought through.
A lot of people use it wrong and immediately complain: “Codex asked me 200 questions in one go.” The problem is usually not the tool. It is that users lose their sense of fidelity, scope, and how active vs. passive they should be. This piece walks through those failure modes one by one.
The tool depends on the user’s judgment
The core of the grill-series skill is one sentence: keep asking until both sides reach a shared understanding of the thing. People often treat it as a substitute for an agent’s plan mode, but there is an easy-to-miss premise: it depends on the answerer’s ability.
The answerer—the person running /grill-me—has to be good at planning, has to understand scope, and has to have a feel for “what fidelity this question actually needs.” The skill itself is not long. It is meant to assist an engineer, not replace one. Below are the common mistakes.
