🔥 Grill Me — extract what's in your head
Everyone uses the same model. What makes your output sound like you it's not the prompt — it's the context that you inject. But the context is stuck in your head.
O grill-me is a skill that no-holds-barred interview — one question at a time, saving each answer to disk—until everything in your head becomes a reusable document. This course teaches the fundamentals, the techniques, how the skill works, and how to apply it in practice.
The grill-me cycle: knowledge leaves your head through questions, and each answer is recorded in the capture file (the source of truth), and the loop repeats until no gaps remain.
What it is, in one sentence
A relentless interviewer
Asks one question at a time, always with its recommended answer, and walks through every branch of the decision tree until you reach a shared understanding.
A file that never forgets
With each answer, it asks checkpoint on disk — in brainstorms/. The context window fills up; the file is the source of truth.
Fuel for your system
In the end, what was extracted updates your skills e docs. You come out of iteration 1 at around 90% instead of 70%.
Your progress in the course
Mark each section as read and keep track here. Everything is saved in your browser.
The 4 paths
From the why to the practice. Start with the fundamentals and finish knowing how to write prompts that make the grill-me work for you.
🧠 Why Context Extraction Is the Whole Game
The model is the same for everyone. Your advantage is the context stuck in your head—and why a 5-minute brain dump is never enough.
Start the learning path →🎤 Anatomy of a relentless interview
One question at a time, a recommended answer, a dependency tree, flags with owners, and a checkpoint after each answer.
Start the learning path →🛠️ Anatomy of grill-me’s SKILL.md
The frontmatter, Matt Pocock’s original version, the non-negotiable checkpoint rule, and why a skill is just a prompt you don’t want to repeat.
Start the learning path →🎯 Putting grill-me into practice
The invocation prompts, such as grilling you about your business, the real difficulty of answering, and the grill-me + skill-creator loop.
Start the learning path →✓ This course is for you if…
- ✓You build skills, prompts, or context for AI and feel like the result is generic.
- ✓You have a lot of knowledge in your head that never makes it into the system in an organized way.
- ✓You do discovery with clients or stakeholders and want to extract processes without leaving gaps.
💡 What you'll know how to do by the end
- →Invoke grill-me and be interviewed productively—even when you don’t know the answer.
- →Read and write the
SKILL.mdof the grill-me, understanding each design decision. - →Turn a brainstorm into better skills and docs — closing the improvement loop.
⬇️ Download the grill-me skill
It’s a single file SKILL.md — the frontmatter, the relentless interview, and the checkpoint rule. Download and install it in your Claude Code to start grilling today.
~/.claude/skills/grill-me/SKILL.md
# 2. in Claude Code, just ask: /grill-me or “grill me about X”