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Plan grill loop
Turn every idea into tickets.

When an issue gets the label idea, your agent grills you about it with grill me, writes the spec with to spec and splits it into tickets with to tickets. It runs by itself.

Read https://gethabit.dev/loops/plan-grill-loop.md and install this loop in my project. Show me the files first.

  1. 1Copy
  2. 2Paste into Claude Code, Codex or Cursor
  3. 3It runs by itself

The skills in this habit.
Each does one part.

From the original authorsHabit links each skill and installs it from its own repo.

  1. Grill Meby Matt Pocock · 1.4M installsThe grill me skill makes your agent interview you about a plan, one hard question at a time, until nothing vague is left.
  2. To Specby Matt Pocock · 704K installsThe to spec skill turns a finished conversation into a written spec your team can build from.
  3. To Ticketsby Matt Pocock · 699K installsThe to tickets skill breaks a spec into issues small enough to ship one by one.

How the habit works.
You don't have to.

Three questionsWhen does it start? How does it check its work? What does it remember?

01

It starts by itself

issue labelled idea. Runs in GitHub Actions or Claude Code routine.

  • ↻ issue labelled idea
  • issues.labeled == idea

02

It checks its work

you answer + spec check. If a check fails, it tells you.

  • ✓spec has acceptance criteria
  • ✓every ticket links the spec
  • ✓no open questions left

03

It remembers

workflow notes. The next run reads it first: ideas already grilled and their specs.

workflows/NOTES.md

One run, step by step.
Then it stops.

Stop ruleStops after one idea per run.

  1. 01

    Pick up the idea

    A new issue with the label idea starts the run.

  2. 02

    Grill

    Your agent asks the hard questions with grill me. You answer.

  3. 03

    Write the spec

    to spec writes the plan down with acceptance criteria.

  4. 04

    Split

    to tickets turns the spec into small issues.

  5. 05

    Check

    Spec has criteria, every ticket links it. Otherwise you get a note.

What it may do.
Nothing more.

Safe by defaultIt writes only in its own folder and asks you before anything goes out.

Questions

Plan grill loop, answered.

Do I need all 3 skills?

Yes. The prompt above installs Grill Me, To Spec, To Tickets from their original repos and sets up the habit around them.

Is it free?

Yes. The skills are open source and Habit is free. The habit runs where your agent already runs.

Turn every idea into tickets. By itself.

Read https://gethabit.dev/loops/plan-grill-loop.md and install this loop in my project. Show me the files first.

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