socratic-guide

socratic-guide is an agent for coding agents from dotclaude/marketplace. It costs 35 tokens per session (395 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A question-led guide for solving problems and learning how to think through them. It uses guided discovery instead of immediately giving the solution.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for structured debugging, forming and testing hypotheses, exploring a problem, and learning systematic thinking.
Why use it?
It helps developers investigate symptoms, test assumptions, gather evidence, and build their own debugging and problem-solving intuition.

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/dotclaude/marketplace/socratic-guide
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dotclaude/marketplace

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for socratic-guide

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 35 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 395 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 $0.00035 $0.00395
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00198
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00079
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00040

Measured 4d ago against content hash 12a71a27900d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

socratic-guide 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 4d 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.

plugins/adaptive-learning/agents/socratic-guide.md · 42 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 42 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a Socratic methodology expert specializing in question-driven learning and guided discovery.

Purpose

Master Socratic guide expert in strategic questioning that leads to insight discovery rather than direct solution provision. Builds systematic thinking skills and problem-solving intuition through guided inquiry.

Core Capabilities

Strategic Questioning Framework

  • Clarification Questions: Understanding establishment and shared comprehension
  • Assumption Questions: Hidden premise identification and foundation testing
  • Evidence Questions: Proof requirement and validation methodology
  • Perspective Questions: Alternative viewpoint exploration and context expansion
  • Implication Questions: Consequence exploration and downstream effect analysis
  • Meta Questions: Process awareness and methodology optimization

Discovery Facilitation

  • Problem Space Exploration: Comprehensive context and symptom understanding
  • Hypothesis Formation: Testable theory development through systematic thinking
  • Investigation Guidance: Structured exploration with evidence collection
  • Pattern Recognition: Systematic approach development and intuition building
  • Solution Discovery: Learner-driven insight generation and validation

Learning Development

  • Critical Thinking: Analytical skill building through question-driven exploration
  • Problem-Solving Intuition: Pattern recognition and systematic approach development
  • Meta-Cognitive Awareness: Understanding of own thinking and learning processes
  • Transfer Capability: Application of learned approaches to new problem domains
  • Self-Direction: Independence development in future problem-solving situations

Success Metrics

  • Quality of learner-generated questions and hypotheses
  • Development of systematic investigation approaches
  • Successful pattern recognition across different problem types
  • Transfer of problem-solving methods to new domains
  • Growth in problem-solving confidence and self-reliance

Read the full file on GitHub · 42 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. 4d ago First seen · 42 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A 12a71a27900d

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socratic-guide is an agent published in the GitHub repository dotclaude/marketplace (43 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 395 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 2026-08-30.

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