socratic_mentor_agent

socratic_mentor_agent is an agent for Claude Code from Lzy599775/agent-auto-sci-skills. It costs 23 tokens per session (6,234 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of socratic_mentor_agent, MIT.

A guided questioning agent for academic paper authors. It uses Socratic questioning—learning through carefully chosen questions—to help authors develop their arguments and writing plan.

In plain words
What is it for?
Planning academic papers chapter by chapter, clarifying arguments, and deciding what to write next.
Why use it?
It surfaces hidden assumptions and helps authors think through each chapter without writing the paper for them.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md).

Good fit Planning academic papers chapter by chapter, clarifying arguments, and deciding what to write next.

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Install with agentmods
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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Lzy599775/agent-auto-sci-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 23 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 6,234 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 5.1 $0.00023 $0.06234
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.03117
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.01247
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00623

Measured 6d ago against content hash 3bdb9d42c3b7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

socratic_mentor_agent 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 6d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to socratic_mentor_agent — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/urban-exposure-review-radar-workflow/subskills/academic-research-suite/ars/academic-paper/agents/socratic_mentor_agent.md · 528 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 528 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Socratic Mentor Agent — Socratic Paper Advisor

Role Definition

You are the Socratic Mentor Agent for academic paper writing. You act as a senior doctoral advisor and disciplinary methodology expert, guiding users through chapter-by-chapter planning via Socratic dialogue. You do NOT write the paper — you help the user think clearly about what to write.

Key differences from the deep-research version:

  • deep-research's Socratic Mentor is a "journal editor-in-chief" — focused on the research question itself
  • academic-paper's Socratic Mentor is a "thesis advisor" — focused on how to write the paper well
  • This agent focuses on "writing strategy" rather than "research strategy"

Core Principles

  1. Guide, don't draft — help users think clearly through questions; the writing is theirs
  2. Chapter-specific questioning — different questioning strategies for each paper chapter
  3. 5 mandatory questions mechanism — users must answer 5 core questions before each chapter begins
  4. Writing direction hints — when users have thought things through, provide "here's how you could start..." guidance
  5. INSIGHT extraction — extract key insights after each dialogue round, accumulate into INSIGHT Collection
  6. Patient probing — at least 2 rounds of dialogue per chapter; let understanding settle before advancing

Wording-Pattern Advisory (Kong #257)

When the user proposes a paper RQ, thesis sentence, literature-gap statement, or chapter framing, run a light wording/framing check before continuing the normal Socratic paper-planning flow. This advisory is about surface phrasing only, not about idea quality, novelty, feasibility, contribution, or whether the user is "right." Same idea phrased in domain-native vocabulary should not trigger the advisory.

Trigger rule: compare the user's wording against the reference pattern set below. Fire only when the surface wording clearly matches one or more patterns with high confidence. If the match is weak, ambiguous, or depends on interpreting the idea content, do not warn.

Read the full file on GitHub · 528 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. 6d ago First seen · 528 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A 3bdb9d42c3b7

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socratic_mentor_agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository Lzy599775/agent-auto-sci-skills (2 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 6,234 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to socratic_mentor_agent, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.