feat(skills): add optional grill-me skill — adversarial plan interview (salvages #43694)

[teknium1]

Summary

Adds an optional grill-me skill under optional-skills/software-development/ — an adversarial plan interview that stress-tests an idea through structured one-question-at-a-time questioning before any code is written. Salvages #43694 by @rafaumeu with authorship preserved. Install via hermes skills install official/software-development/grill-me.

This is also a direct hit on this week's Muse Code scout: Meta's Muse Code (Aug 5) ships /grill as a bundled default skill ("stress-tests a plan until it holds up") alongside /plan. Hermes already has plan; this closes the /grill gap with a community contribution that predates Muse Code by two months.

Changes

• optional-skills/software-development/grill-me/SKILL.md: new optional skill (103 lines) — 4-phase interview (Understanding → Technical Decisions → Edge Cases → Synthesis), one question per turn with a recommendation, codebase exploration via search_files/read_file instead of asking answerable questions, explicit no-code-during-grill rule, hands off to plan / subagent-driven-development / requesting-code-review
• contributors/emails/rafael.zendron22@gmail.com: contributor mapping for @rafaumeu
• Docs regen (scoped): one optional-catalog row, one sidebar line, one auto-gen skill page

Validation

Check	Result
description length	49 chars (≤60)
platforms gating	[linux, macos, windows] — prose only, no scripts
authoring standards tests	6 passed (tests/skills/test_authoring_standards.py -k grill)
contributor attribution audit	audit_pr_attribution.py --fix → all mapped
stale-base gate	rebased onto current main; rev-list count = 0; diff = 5 intended files only

Sources (Muse Code scout)

• https://research.meta.ai/blog/introducing-muse-code-and-muse-spark-1-2 (bundled /plan, /grill, /goal skills)
• Original contributor PR: feat: add grill-me skill — adversarial plan interview #43694 (@rafaumeu), inspired by Matt Pocock's grill-me; related dupes feat(skills): add grill-me interview skills #62874, feat: add grilling skills #37639

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⚠️ Warnings

OSV vulnerability scan · View job

6 known vulnerabilities found in pinned dependencies.

• CVE-2026-67213 in website/package-lock.json
• CVE-2026-71554 in uv.lock
• CVE-2026-70608 in package-lock.json
• CVE-2026-56876 in package-lock.json
• CVE-2026-70606 in package-lock.json
• CVE-2026-71554 in uv.lock

How to fix:

Review the findings in the Security tab. Update the affected dependencies if a patched version is available.

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CI timings

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Wall time 5m53s vs 12m11s (-51.7%). 7 job(s) slower, 4 faster, 2 unchanged.

• Python tests / Run tests: -513.0s
• Docs Site / docs-site-checks: -10.0s
• Python lints / ruff enforcement (blocking): +6.0s
• Python lints / Windows footguns (blocking): +4.0s
• OS-specific tests / macOS-only tests: -4.0s

[teknium1]

Credit correction from the post-merge sweep: #37639 by @jweese001 (Jun 2) predates #43694 (Jun 10) as the earliest grill-me submission. The salvage was built from #43694's implementation, but first-submitter credit belongs to @jweese001.