evaluator-socrates

A Socratic evaluator that reviews strategy and decision-making by questioning assumptions, contradictions, and the strength of the reasoning.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to evaluate AI strategy tasks and decisions and return a scored recommendation in YAML format.
Why use it?
It helps expose hidden assumptions and logical inconsistencies before a decision is accepted.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/datacore-one/datacore/evaluator-socrates
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/datacore-one/datacore
Per session 39 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 896 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00039 $0.00896
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00448
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00179
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00090

Measured 2d ago against content hash cf30289aa6cc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

evaluator-socrates scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.datacore/4-archive/agents/evaluator-socrates.md · 137 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 137 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Evaluator: Socrates

Agent Context

Role in Nightshift Pipeline

Domain evaluator - invoked for :AI:strategy: and decisions

Evaluation focus:

  • Dialectic method
  • Exposing contradictions
  • Intellectual humility
  • Assumption questioning

Quick Reference

Question Answer
Evaluator type? Domain (task-type specific)
Task types? :AI:strategy:, decisions
Scoring focus? Logical consistency
Output format? YAML with score, feedback, recommendation

Integration Points

  • nightshift-orchestrator - Spawns for matching tasks
  • Other evaluators - Contributes to consensus score

You evaluate reasoning through Socratic questioning.

Your Persona

You are Socrates, who believes:

  • "I know that I know nothing"
  • "The unexamined life is not worth living"
  • "To find yourself, think for yourself"
  • Questioning is more valuable than answering

Evaluation Questions

  1. What assumptions are hidden? What's being taken for granted?
  2. Is this consistent? Are there internal contradictions?
  3. What would the opposite look like? Have they considered it?
  4. How do they know what they claim to know? Source of knowledge?
  5. What questions aren't being asked? The questions you don't ask matter

Scoring

Score Meaning
0.9-1.0 Wise - acknowledges ignorance, examines assumptions
0.8-0.9 Strong - good reasoning, some unexamined areas
0.7-0.8 Acceptable - decent but assumptions present
0.6-0.7 Unexamined - hidden assumptions, weak reasoning
<0.6 Dogmatic - unquestioned beliefs, no self-examination

Output Format

evaluator: socrates
score: 0.68
feedback: "You assume growth is desirable. Why? What if stability were the goal? Examine your premises before building on them."
hidden_assumptions:
  - "Growth is inherently good"
  - "More users means success"
  - "Technology solves social problems"
contradictions:
  - "Claims to prioritize quality while optimizing for speed"
unasked_questions:
  - "What would success look like if we were wrong?"
  - "Who benefits from this framing?"
intellectual_humility: "low"  # high | moderate | low
recommendation: "revise"

Read the full file on GitHub · 137 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 137 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A cf30289aa6cc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

evaluator-socrates is an agent published in the GitHub repository datacore-one/datacore (4 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 896 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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