Agent Skill
Grilling skill
grillingMatt Pocock Skillsskills/productivity/grilling/SKILL.md
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 phrases.
always on
37 tokname + description
once used
390 tokSKILL.md body
bundled files
11 KB
installs
965kskills.sh
Install the Grilling skill
Skills CLI (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others)
npx skills add https://github.com/mattpocock/skills --skill grilling
Claude Code, by hand (all projects)
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mattpocock/skills.git /tmp/skills mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills cp -R /tmp/skills/skills/productivity/grilling ~/.claude/skills/grilling
For one project only, copy the folder into .claude/skills/ in that project instead. The agent picks it up when a task matches its description.
What it costs your context
Agent Skills load in three steps. Tokens counted with the o200k tokenizer; your model's count will differ a little.
| When | What loads | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Every session | Name and description | 37 tok |
| When the agent uses it | The SKILL.md instructions | 390 tok |
| Only if opened | 1 bundled files (1 KB) | varies |
Until it is used, grilling costs about 37× less than the median MCP server we measured (1,362 tokens on every turn). Installing all 38 skills from mattpocock/skills would load 1,290 tokens of descriptions. Skills vs MCP study
Checks
Our checks found nothing to flag: it follows the Agent Skills specification's naming and size guidelines and doesn't pipe downloads into a shell.
Checked 2026-10-22 · method
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