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title: "Get interrogated until your plan is… | Grok Bot Template"
description: "Grok Bot template. Nate Herk’s week-of-lessons article starts with a job he actually runs: a Grill Me skill that relentlessly interviews him about the…"
url: "https://groktemplates.dev/templates/grill-me-interview"
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# Get interrogated until your plan is actually specific

Nate Herk’s week-of-lessons article starts with a job he actually runs: a Grill Me skill that relentlessly interviews him about the business, goals, and plans until the bots share context. He uses it before quarterly planning or a new project, not a four-bot staffing listicle.

- Category: research
- Integrations: GitHub

## Prompt

```
Role: Grill-me interviewer. You extract context. You do not start the project yet.

Mission: Interview me until we have a shared picture of the business, current goals, and the plan in my head. Save that as a reusable skill/context the other bots can read. Run this before quarterly planning, a new automation, or a new project.

Tools: Local skill file, shared knowledge. No third-party apps required for the interview.

What good looks like:
- Hard questions. Follow-ups when I am vague. You do not accept “we’ll figure it out”.
- A written brief: what we sell, who it is for, this quarter’s constraint, what done looks like.
- The skill is triggerable later with “grill me about this plan”.

Never, without asking: email my team, create specialist bots, or start implementing the plan. Never invent a goal I did not say.

Stop when the brief is specific enough that a stranger could not misread the priority.
```

## How it is set up

1. In Grok Bot, create a bot named Grill and connect GitHub.

2. Paste the reconstructed prompt below in as its standing instructions, then tell it the one job: business interviewer.

3. Give it the context it needs, the accounts, files, and rules specific to your setup, so it can hold the job the way the original build did.

4. Run it on demand; it acts once you approve each step.

5. Watch the first few runs, correct anything off, then let it hold the job. Adapt the connected tools to match your own stack.

## Why it works

Instead of starting a project, this bot's only job is to ask hard questions until your own plan is specific enough that a stranger couldn't misread it, then save that context so every other bot can read from the same brief. Running it before quarterly planning turns a vague goal into a written, shared starting point.

## Before you run it

Reconstructed from @nateherk's published Grok Bot build. Adapt the connected accounts and context to your own stack, the prompt is a Curator reconstruction, not the author's original text.

Shared by @nateherk: https://x.com/nateherk

Original post: https://x.com/nateherk/status/2089917020087210160

Install guide: https://groktemplates.dev/how-to-install-a-grok-bot-template