Hot Seat Rules
The interview playbook the Hot Seat skills share.
What it does
Grill the user relentlessly about a plan, decision, or idea. Use when the user wants to stress-test their thinking, or uses any 'grill' trigger phrases.
Install in under a minute
Mac or Linux, after you download
unzip hot-seat-rules.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/Windows PowerShell
Expand-Archive hot-seat-rules.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 Rules on this project."
- Unzip the download, then zip just the hot-seat-rules 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 Rules uses the open SKILL.md format, so it also works in agents like Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and Codex. Copy the hot-seat-rules 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 Rules is a renamed, packaged copy of grilling 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 Rules work in Claude.ai, not just Claude Code?
Yes. In Claude.ai, upload the hot-seat-rules 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-rules folder: its SKILL.md (799 words) and its license files. It comes inside the Engineering Workflow Pack.
Who made Hot Seat Rules?
It's a renamed, packaged copy of grilling by Matt Pocock, used under the MIT license. The license and a list of changes ship inside the download.