The Skill That 10x’d My Claude Code Projects
Nate's argument: if everyone is on the same model, everyone gets the same outputs, so the only real edge is the context you add, your taste, your voice, your decisions. The hard part is extraction, getting what is in your head into the system. The skill he shares, "grill me," takes what's in your head and turns it into reusable context for your AI by interviewing you, and you keep grilling yourself to update it as your business evolves.
A Claude Code skill that interviews ("grills") you about a process and writes it back to a knowledge doc, turning what's in your head into reusable context so your skills actually sound like you. You re-grill to keep it current as your business evolves.
Nate's Skool post (AI Automation Society) → ✓ open link, verified liveShared as a SKILL.md file in his AI Automation Society community. The post page is publicly reachable (verified live). Opening the SKILL.md attachment itself may still ask you to join the free community. Tip: search "grill" inside the group to find it fast.
- What the skill is, in his words: it is "called grill me. It basically takes what's in your head into reusable context for your AI."
- "If everyone's using Claude Opus 4.8, then everyone's going to be using the same prompts and getting the same output because the model is fundamentally the same for everybody."
- The differentiator: "what really makes the difference is when you add context into that model and you give it your taste, your voice, your decisions."
- The real bottleneck is "the extraction, getting everything from your head into the AI system" so your skills can use it.
- His payoff, from his own visualization: grill yourself up front and "you're able to jump right up here to like 90 at the beginning... you're still going to iterate a little bit, but you're just there a lot quicker." Reaching ~95% battle-tested still takes "10 iterations, could be 30 iterations," and "I don't think you ever get to 100%" because the skill keeps evolving.