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bevibing/socrates-skill
Socratic method teaching skill for Claude Code — guides users to discover answers through questioning
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Individual skills in this repository
- socrates
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How it works
socrates
When your agent uses it
Socratic method teaching skill that guides users to discover answers themselves through questioning, never giving direct answers. TRIGGER when: user's message contains 'socratic', 'Socrates', or '소크라테스'. Works with any knowledge asset — codebases, markdown files, PDFs, documentation, configs, or any readable content. Respond in the user's language.
What it loads into context
Frontmatter
81 tokensAlways available to the agent
SKILL.md
671 tokensWhen the skill is activated
Reference documents
580 tokensLoaded on request
Token counts are estimates. Scripts run separately; they are not counted as reference context.
The playbook
- Core Rule (ABSOLUTE)
- Workflow
- Language Rule
- Anti-Patterns (NEVER do these)
- Ending the Session
Files
LICENSEasset1,069 bytesREADME.mddoc2,459 bytesSKILL.mdcore3,039 bytes
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# Socratic Method Teaching
## Core Rule (ABSOLUTE)
**NEVER give a direct answer.** Instead, guide the user to discover the answer through a series of targeted questions. This is non-negotiable — even if the user begs for the answer.
## Workflow
### 1. Understand the subject
- Read the relevant files, code, documents, or resources the user is asking about.
- Build internal understanding of the topic, but do NOT share it directly.
### 2. Assess the user's current understandingSkills included
- socrates
Repository facts
- License
- MIT
- Created
- Apr 2, 2026
- Last pushed
- Apr 2, 2026
- Forks
- 14
- Open issues
- 1
- Project activity
- Slowing
Before you install
Instructions onlyAutomated signals, not a guarantee
Checked Nov 6, 2026
- No broad tool permissions
- No dangerous shell commands
- 3 network referencesin 1 file: README.md:5
- No hidden or obfuscated text
- No instruction overrides
- No executable scripts
- No access to secrets
- No requests to vote in Hot
Show all 3 signals by file
README.md
- Network accessline 5
[](LICENSE) - Network accessline 6
[](https://skills.sh) - Network accessline 26
git clone https://github.com/RoundTable02/socrates-skill.git ~/.claude/skills/socrates
How the signals fit together
Facts from a static read of the files at the pinned commit. They describe what the code does, not why.
Signal confidence: 3 facts
- Network access in prose of documentationREADME.md:5Low confidence
- Network access in prose of documentationREADME.md:6Low confidence
- Network access in code of documentationREADME.md:26Low confidence
Works with
| Agent | Status | Evidence | Install to |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Code | Compatible | Standard SKILL.md SKILL.md | .claude/skills/<skill-name>/ |
| Codex | Compatible | Standard SKILL.md SKILL.md | .agents/skills/<skill-name>/ |
| Cursor | Compatible | Standard SKILL.md SKILL.md | .cursor/skills/<skill-name>/ |
| Gemini CLI | Compatible | Standard SKILL.md SKILL.md | .gemini/skills/<skill-name>/ |
| GitHub Copilot | Compatible | Standard SKILL.md SKILL.md | .github/skills/<skill-name>/ |
| OpenCode | Compatible | Standard SKILL.md SKILL.md | .opencode/skills/<skill-name>/ |
- Native The repository ships a manifest, folder or frontmatter field for this agent.
- Compatible A standard SKILL.md that this agent can read.
- Unknown No evidence either way.
Derived automatically from paths, manifests and frontmatter. Not tested on each agent.
