--- title: "9 Things People Get Wrong With My /grill-* skills" url: https://daily.dev/posts/9-things-people-get-wrong-with-my-grill--skills-mfbdd93de source_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzMNBN6xLLA type: video:youtube source: "Matt Pocock" published: 2026-05-25T13:28:15.929Z updated: 2026-05-25T13:33:42.761Z tags: ["ai-agents", "prompt-engineering", "ai-coding"] reading_time: 13 upvotes: 3 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # 9 Things People Get Wrong With My /grill-* skills **[Matt Pocock](https://daily.dev/sources/mattpocock)** · 13 min read · 3 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary 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. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#prompt-engineering](https://daily.dev/tags/prompt-engineering), [#ai-coding](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-coding) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/9-things-people-get-wrong-with-my-grill--skills-mfbdd93de)