Learn how to master the /grill-with-docs skill and avoid common mistakes that waste context and planning time. This video covers nine key failure modes and how to fix them.

0:00 Overview
1:28 Low vs high fidelity questions
3:44 Managing scope correctly
5:41 Being active not passive
6:54 Preserving grilling session value
8:40 Using smart models for grilling
10:24 Running parallel grilling sessions
11:26 Summary and key takeaways

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Matt Pocock

A guide to using /grill-* AI skills effectively for software planning sessions. Covers nine common mistakes developers make, including trying to answer high-fidelity questions during grilling, scoping too large, being too passive or too active, discarding valuable context, using weak models, and not running parallel sessions. Key concepts include distinguishing grillable vs ungrillable questions, managing context window limits (dumb zone around 120K tokens), using handoff skills for prototyping, preserving session decisions as PRDs, and leveraging frontier models for their parametric knowledge during planning.

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