docs(grill-me): drop the "holds decisions" phrasing

The catalog row now reads "Align on an idea before committing to it."
The page's opening carried the same metaphor — "until it has real
decisions in it" — so it now says "until you can commit to it".

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

.changeset/harness-neutral-subagent-language.md

@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
----
-"mattpocock-skills": patch
----
-
-Drop Claude Code's tool and agent-type names from the subagent-dispatch instructions in `code-review`, `codebase-design`, and `improve-codebase-architecture`, so the step is followable on Codex and other harnesses.

.claude-plugin/plugin.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "mattpocock-skills",
-  "version": "1.2.2",
+  "version": "1.2.3",
   "description": "Matt Pocock's agent skills for real engineering — grilling, spec/ticket flows, TDD, code review, domain modelling and more. Plug-and-play, not vibe coding.",
   "author": {
     "name": "Matt Pocock",

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,19 @@
 # mattpocock-skills
 
+## 1.2.3
+
+### Patch Changes
+
+- [#779](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/pull/779) [`efce423`](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/commit/efce423018fc6468a3239621f1c1bcaacc723801) Thanks [@mattpocock](https://github.com/mattpocock)! - Make `diagnosing-bugs` redact secrets.
+
+  - Add a **Redact** section to `SKILL.md`. The skill has the agent show commands, outputs and captured artifacts; the section makes redaction the first move on each — write `<REDACTED>`, build loops against env vars so the credential stays in the environment, and quote only the signal-carrying lines of a captured artifact.
+  - The Phase 1 completion criterion said "paste the invocation and its output". It now says show it redacted, and Phase 1 asks the user for a **redacted** captured artifact.
+  - Note in `scripts/hitl-loop.template.sh` that `capture` prints its value back to the terminal, so it takes observations while signing in stays a `step`.
+
+- [#781](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/pull/781) [`14bfbbd`](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/commit/14bfbbd8654a8d2910299e1a004c19c1979687d8) Thanks [@mattpocock](https://github.com/mattpocock)! - Drop Claude Code's tool and agent-type names from the subagent-dispatch instructions in `code-review`, `codebase-design`, and `improve-codebase-architecture`, so the step is followable on Codex and other harnesses.
+
+- [#783](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/pull/783) [`c0fd1e9`](https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/commit/c0fd1e973e040347d424e09934099f1bd6c2dee0) Thanks [@mattpocock](https://github.com/mattpocock)! - wizard: remove the time estimate. The template drops `TOTAL_MINUTES` and the time-remaining display, `stage` takes a name only, and progress is counted in stages.
+
 ## 1.2.2
 
 ### Patch Changes

docs/engineering/wizard.md

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ None to generate one. The wizard it writes runs on bash, and uses `gh` when a st
 
 ## Stages
 
-A **stage** is one focused task on one screen. The script clears the terminal between stages, so a stage that overflows the screen loses the part that scrolled away. You author stages in dependency order and set `TOTAL_STAGES` and `TOTAL_MINUTES`, which drive the time-remaining display — make the estimate honest, because the person running it will hold you to it.
+A **stage** is one focused task on one screen. The script clears the terminal between stages, so a stage that overflows the screen loses the part that scrolled away. You author stages in dependency order and set `TOTAL_STAGES`, which drives the progress display.
 
 Scoping happens before a line is written. The [skill](https://www.aihero.dev/ai-coding-dictionary/skill) reads the repo instead of asking cold: `.env*`, `docker-compose*`, framework config, and every `secrets.*` / `vars.*` reference in `.github/workflows/` — each of those is a value the wizard has to produce. It then shows you the ordered stage list to confirm, and only after that maps each stage to the exact path a human follows ("Dashboard → Developers → API keys → Reveal test key → copy"). Where it doesn't know the current UI, it asks you or checks the docs rather than inventing clicks.
 

docs/productivity/grill-me.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ## What it does
 
-`grill-me` takes a **loose idea** and interviews you until it has real decisions in it. You do not need a worked-out plan to start — producing one is what the [session](https://www.aihero.dev/ai-coding-dictionary/session) is for. It asks in **rounds**: each round is the whole **frontier** — every question whose prerequisites you have already settled — so you are never asked something that hinges on an answer it hasn't heard yet.
+`grill-me` takes a **loose idea** and interviews you until you can commit to it. You do not need a worked-out plan to start — producing one is what the [session](https://www.aihero.dev/ai-coding-dictionary/session) is for. It asks in **rounds**: each round is the whole **frontier** — every question whose prerequisites you have already settled — so you are never asked something that hinges on an answer it hasn't heard yet.
 
 It is **[stateless](https://www.aihero.dev/ai-coding-dictionary/stateless)**. It writes no files and leaves no workspace behind. The only thing it leaves is a sharper version of the idea, in your own head.
 

package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "mattpocock-skills",
-  "version": "1.2.2",
+  "version": "1.2.3",
   "private": true,
   "description": "Matt Pocock's agent skills for real engineering",
   "repository": {

skills/engineering/diagnosing-bugs/SKILL.md

@@ -9,6 +9,12 @@ A discipline for hard bugs. Skip phases only when explicitly justified.
 
 When exploring the codebase, read `CONTEXT.md` (if it exists) to get a clear mental model of the relevant modules, and check ADRs in the area you're touching.
 
+## Redact
+
+This skill has you show commands, outputs and captured artifacts. **Redact every secret first** — write `<REDACTED>` in its place. Build loops against env vars, so the credential stays in the environment rather than in what you show. Captured artifacts carry auth headers: quote only the lines that carry the signal.
+
+If the redacted output is not enough to diagnose the bug, say so and ask the user.
+
 ## Phase 1 — Build a feedback loop
 
 **This is the skill.** Everything else is mechanical. If you have a **tight** pass/fail signal for the bug — one that goes red on _this_ bug — you will find the cause; bisection, hypothesis-testing, and instrumentation all just consume it. If you don't have one, no amount of staring at code will save you.
@@ -46,11 +52,11 @@ The goal is not a clean repro but a **higher reproduction rate**. Loop the trigg
 
 ### When you genuinely cannot build a loop
 
-Stop and say so explicitly. List what you tried. Ask the user for: (a) access to whatever environment reproduces it, (b) a captured artifact (HAR file, log dump, core dump, screen recording with timestamps), or (c) permission to add temporary production instrumentation. Do **not** proceed to hypothesise without a loop.
+Stop and say so explicitly. List what you tried. Ask the user for: (a) access to whatever environment reproduces it, (b) a redacted captured artifact (HAR file, log dump, core dump, screen recording with timestamps), or (c) permission to add temporary production instrumentation. Do **not** proceed to hypothesise without a loop.
 
 ### Completion criterion — a tight loop that goes red
 
-Phase 1 is done when the loop is **tight** and **red-capable**: you can name **one command** — a script path, a test invocation, a curl — that you have **already run at least once** (paste the invocation and its output), and that is:
+Phase 1 is done when the loop is **tight** and **red-capable**: you can name **one command** — a script path, a test invocation, a curl — that you have **already run at least once** (show the invocation and its output, redacted), and that is:
 
 - [ ] **Red-capable** — it drives the actual bug code path and asserts the **user's exact symptom**, so it can go red on this bug and green once fixed. Not "runs without erroring" — it must be able to _catch this specific bug_.
 - [ ] **Deterministic** — same verdict every run (flaky bugs: a pinned, high reproduction rate, per above).

skills/engineering/diagnosing-bugs/scripts/hitl-loop.template.sh

@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@
 #   capture VAR "<question>"      → show question, read response into VAR
 #
 # At the end, captured values are printed as KEY=VALUE for the agent to parse.
+#
+# `capture` prints its value back to the terminal, where the agent reads it — so
+# capture observations, and leave signing in to the user as a `step`.
 
 set -euo pipefail
 

skills/engineering/wizard/SKILL.md

@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ description: Generate an interactive bash wizard that walks a human through step
 
 # Wizard
 
-A **wizard** is a bash script that walks a human, step by step, through a manual procedure that's tedious to do by hand and tedious to re-explain to an AI every time. It opens each URL, says exactly what to click and copy, captures the values, writes them where they belong (`.env`, GitHub secrets), confirms at every stage, and shows how much is left. It might configure third-party services, run a one-off migration, or move the project from one state to another.
+A **wizard** is a bash script that walks a human, step by step, through a manual procedure that's tedious to do by hand and tedious to re-explain to an AI every time. It opens each URL, says exactly what to click and copy, captures the values, writes them where they belong (`.env`, GitHub secrets), confirms at every stage, and shows how many stages are left. It might configure third-party services, run a one-off migration, or move the project from one state to another.
 
-The delightful UX is already solved by [template.sh](template.sh) — progress with time-remaining, confirmation gates, cross-platform URL opening (including WSL), hidden secret entry, idempotent `.env` upserts, `gh secret`/`gh variable` writes, and a closing summary. **Your job is only to scope the procedure and author its stages.** The library above the `STAGES` marker is identical in every wizard; that consistency is the point — never hand-edit it.
+The delightful UX is already solved by [template.sh](template.sh) — stage-by-stage progress, confirmation gates, cross-platform URL opening (including WSL), hidden secret entry, idempotent `.env` upserts, `gh secret`/`gh variable` writes, and a closing summary. **Your job is only to scope the procedure and author its stages.** The library above the `STAGES` marker is identical in every wizard; that consistency is the point — never hand-edit it.
 
 A wizard is ephemeral by default — built for one run, saved to a scratch or `scripts/` path, deleted when the job's done. Commit it only when the user wants a repeatable setup path that should live in the repo.
 
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ For each stage, write the precise path a human follows: which URL to open, what
 
 ### 3. Author the wizard
 
-Copy `template.sh` to the target path. Replace the example stage with one `stage` per step, in dependency order. Use the library helpers — `stage`, `say`/`step`, `open_url`, `ask`/`ask_secret`, `write_env`, `set_secret`/`set_var`, `pause`/`confirm` — and set `TOTAL_STAGES` and `TOTAL_MINUTES` to honest estimates (this drives the time-remaining display).
+Copy `template.sh` to the target path. Replace the example stage with one `stage` per step, in dependency order. Use the library helpers — `stage`, `say`/`step`, `open_url`, `ask`/`ask_secret`, `write_env`, `set_secret`/`set_var`, `pause`/`confirm` — and set `TOTAL_STAGES` to the number of stages you wrote.
 
 Hold the bar the template sets: open the URL before asking for its value, use `ask_secret` for anything secret, `write_env` every persisted value, `set_secret` only the values CI actually needs, and `confirm` before any irreversible action. Each `stage` clears the screen so only the current step is visible — keep a stage to one focused task so nothing the human needs scrolls away. Don't touch the library above the marker.
 

skills/engineering/wizard/template.sh

@@ -19,12 +19,10 @@ else
   BOLD=""; DIM=""; RESET=""; BLUE=""; GREEN=""; YELLOW=""; RED=""
 fi
 
-# Author sets these two at the top of the stages section.
+# Author sets this at the top of the stages section.
 TOTAL_STAGES=0
-TOTAL_MINUTES=0
 
 _STAGE_INDEX=0
-_MINUTES_ELAPSED=0
 ENV_FILE="${ENV_FILE:-.env}"
 WRITTEN_ENV=()    # KEYs written to ENV_FILE this run
 WRITTEN_SECRET=() # secret NAMEs set this run
@@ -37,28 +35,24 @@ _clear() {
   if command -v tput >/dev/null 2>&1; then tput clear; else printf '\033[2J\033[3J\033[H'; fi
 }
 
-# banner "Title" — opening frame: what this wizard does and how long it takes.
+# banner "Title" — opening frame: what this wizard does.
 banner() {
   _clear
   printf '\n%s%s  %s%s\n' "$BOLD" "$BLUE" "$1" "$RESET"
-  printf '%s  %s stages · about %s minutes%s\n\n' \
-    "$DIM" "$TOTAL_STAGES" "$TOTAL_MINUTES" "$RESET"
+  printf '%s  %s stages%s\n\n' "$DIM" "$TOTAL_STAGES" "$RESET"
   printf '%s  You drive the browser; this wizard tells you exactly what to do and\n' "$DIM"
   printf '  captures the values you copy back. Stop any time with Ctrl-C and re-run\n'
   printf '  later — it remembers values already saved.%s\n' "$RESET"
   pause "Ready to start?"
 }
 
-# stage "Name" <minutes> — clear the screen, then announce a stage and show
-# progress + time remaining. Clearing keeps only the current step on screen.
+# stage "Name" — clear the screen, then announce a stage and show progress.
+# Clearing keeps only the current step on screen.
 stage() {
   _clear
   _STAGE_INDEX=$((_STAGE_INDEX + 1))
-  local remaining=$((TOTAL_MINUTES - _MINUTES_ELAPSED))
-  (( remaining < 0 )) && remaining=0
-  _MINUTES_ELAPSED=$((_MINUTES_ELAPSED + ${2:-0}))
-  printf '\n%s%s▸ Stage %s/%s · %s%s  %s(~%s min left)%s\n' \
-    "$BOLD" "$BLUE" "$_STAGE_INDEX" "$TOTAL_STAGES" "$1" "$RESET" "$DIM" "$remaining" "$RESET"
+  printf '\n%s%s▸ Stage %s/%s · %s%s\n' \
+    "$BOLD" "$BLUE" "$_STAGE_INDEX" "$TOTAL_STAGES" "$1" "$RESET"
 }
 
 # say "..." — a plain instruction line.
@@ -187,16 +181,15 @@ finish() {
 
 # ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 # STAGES — author this section. One stage() per step the human takes.
-# Replace the example below. Set the two totals to match the stages you write.
+# Replace the example below. Set TOTAL_STAGES to match the stages you write.
 # ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 
 TOTAL_STAGES=1
-TOTAL_MINUTES=5
 
 banner "Stripe setup"
 
 # ── Example stage: replace with your real steps ───────────────────────────
-stage "Stripe — API keys" 5
+stage "Stripe — API keys"
 say "We'll grab your Stripe test keys and store them for local dev + CI."
 open_url "https://dashboard.stripe.com/test/apikeys"
 step "On the API keys page, copy the Publishable key (starts pk_test_)."