Hot Seat
A relentless interview that stress-tests your plan.
What it does
A relentless interview to sharpen a plan or design.
Install in under a minute
Mac or Linux, after you download
unzip hot-seat.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/Windows PowerShell
Expand-Archive hot-seat.zip -DestinationPath $HOME\.claude\skills- Start a new Claude Code session so it sees the skill.
- Ask in plain words, for example: "Use Hot Seat on this project."
- Unzip the download, then zip just the hot-seat folder if your computer added an extra folder.
- In Claude.ai, open Settings, then Capabilities, and upload it under Skills.
- Turn the skill on and ask Claude to use it.
Hot Seat uses the open SKILL.md format, so it also works in agents like Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and Codex. Copy the hot-seat folder into that agent's skills folder, for example .cursor/skills/ or .github/skills/ in your project.
What's inside
In the download: agents/openai.yaml, LICENSE, NOTICE.md, SKILL.md
Credit and license
Hot Seat is a renamed, packaged copy of grill-me by Matt Pocock (github.com/mattpocock/skills), used under the MIT license. The license and a list of changes ship inside the download.
Questions
Does Hot Seat work in Claude.ai, not just Claude Code?
Yes. In Claude.ai, upload the hot-seat folder as a zip in Settings under Capabilities. It also works in other agents that support Agent Skills, like Cursor, Gemini CLI and GitHub Copilot.
What do I get?
A zip with the hot-seat folder: its SKILL.md (491 words) and its license files. It comes inside the Engineering Workflow Pack.
Who made Hot Seat?
It's a renamed, packaged copy of grill-me by Matt Pocock, used under the MIT license. The license and a list of changes ship inside the download.