skills.sh #2 · 900K installs

Shipping it right away isn’t actually better

“Make me a café booking page.” It appears right away. Looks easy. Nobody has decided table vs time slot, whether guests book themselves, or what success even is. That page already made the decisions you didn’t. Fixing it later takes days. The skill 900K people installed stops that.

Without the skill

“Make me a café booking page”

Never asked

Coffee & reserve

Café Bloom

Reserve a table

Date

22 Aug 2026

Time

10:0011:3013:0014:3016:0018:00

Book now

Booking unit: time slots · decided alone
Who: guest self-serve · decided alone
Goal: none

With the skill on

Same ask, /grill-me

Make me a café booking page

❓ Q1 Booking unit: table / time slot / assigned host?
➡️ Tables (2- and 4-tops). In a café, seats are usually what’s actually scarce.

❓ Q2 Who books: guests themselves / staff take the call and type it in.
➡️ Guest self-serve. A staff admin screen can wait.

❓ Q3 What does success look like: completed bookings / fewer no-shows / fewer phone inquiries.
➡️ This week’s goal is locked: bookings that used to happen on the phone now finish on the page.

Left is the page it built without asking. There’s a date and a button, but the code already decided table vs time slot. Right is the first round when the same ask goes into /grill-me. Still not one line of code. Instead you see the three calls that would make you rip the page up later.

Instant build isn’t the easy path. It’s unspoken decisions turning into code.

Install is one paste

No terminal. No command-line homework. Paste the prompt below into Claude Code, Cursor, or whatever AI chat you use, and it’ll find the install path that fits your machine.

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Paste this into your AI, word for word
Install this skill for me. The grill-me skill from the https://github.com/mattpocock/skills repo, plus the grilling skill it needs.
If the terminal is home for you, this is the install command.
npx skills add https://github.com/mattpocock/skills --skill grill-me
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Once it’s in, ask this in a fresh chat
Plan mode off. Start the skill you just installed with /grill-me.
In a fresh chat, start the grill-me skill I just installed with /grill-me. Don’t write code for the idea below — ask me one round of questions about the decisions I haven’t made yet. [paste your blurry idea here]

Install grill-me on its own and nothing happens. The whole body is Call the Skill tool with "grilling", so you need grilling too. Official FAQ: “I installed grill-me on its own and nothing happens.” The set install is npx skills@latest add mattpocock/skills. Use both and you’ll get two copies. Pick one.

In three lines

Use it when

You have an idea and it’s still blurry. A feature, a piece of writing, a business call. You don’t need a repo. If you can already write it precisely, you don’t need this skill.

What’s inside

Each round throws the whole frontier — every question it can ask right now — and attaches a recommended answer. It writes no files. Usually a few dozen questions across a few rounds. The official FAQ treats 46 questions in 4 rounds as a normal session.

What it won’t do

Saying yes to 40 questions is just nodding along to the agent’s plan. Questions you can’t settle in words need a prototype. If you’re coding against a repo, use grill-with-docs. Model quality matters more. 200 questions means the scope is too big.

What people actually said

We didn’t cherry-pick the nice ones. Three that helped, three that stung — moved over as written.

The helpful side

“Forty-five minutes later… You haven’t written a single line of code. But you’ve designed a much better product.” medium.com
— Tattva Tarang, Medium
“My packaging session ran fifty-one minutes. I have never once regretted the hour. I have regretted every skill I shipped without it.” mejba.me
— Engr Mejba Ahmed
“Thanks to v1.2’s round questions, the slow drip of easy yeses at the end is gone.” blog.alexrusin.com
— Alex Rusin

The disappointing side

“Now I see a dozen of questions, each answer is buried in a sentence. Answering them is a nightmare.” github.com
— ecc-parity-check
“Codex just asked me 200 questions. I never did [ask it to stop], I kept thinking maybe this one’s the last question.” github.com
— DoozyDoz
“It produces excellent structured decisions, but writes nothing permanent. When the session ends, those decisions exist only in conversation context.” github.com
— itsfordanny

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