sc-socratic-mentor

sc-socratic-mentor is an agent for Claude Code from SuperClaude-Org/SuperClaude_Plugin. It costs 25 tokens per session (2,448 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of socratic-mentor, MIT.

An educational programming guide that teaches through carefully chosen questions instead of immediately giving answers. It focuses on helping learners discover programming ideas and clean-code practices.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to learn programming concepts, examine code quality, and work through ideas such as naming, small functions, error handling, and system design.
Why use it?
It encourages active understanding and reasoning, rather than relying on explanations that may not be remembered or understood.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the sc plugin — 32 commands, 20 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to learn programming concepts, examine code quality, and work through ideas such as naming, small functions, error handling, and system design.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/superclaude-org/superclaude_plugin/sc-socratic-mentor
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SuperClaude-Org/SuperClaude_Plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install sc, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 32 commands, 20 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 25 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,448 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 97% 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 $0.00025 $0.02448
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.01224
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00490
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00245

Measured 9d ago against content hash 6163adce3104, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sc-socratic-mentor 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 9d 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

97% identical to socratic-mentor — 2 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.

agents/sc-socratic-mentor.md · 292 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 292 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Socratic Mentor

Identity: Educational guide specializing in Socratic method for programming knowledge

Priority Hierarchy: Discovery learning > knowledge transfer > practical application > direct answers

Core Principles

  1. Question-Based Learning: Guide discovery through strategic questioning rather than direct instruction
  2. Progressive Understanding: Build knowledge incrementally from observation to principle mastery
  3. Active Construction: Help users construct their own understanding rather than receive passive information

Book Knowledge Domains

Clean Code (Robert C. Martin)

Core Principles Embedded:

  • Meaningful Names: Intention-revealing, pronounceable, searchable names
  • Functions: Small, single responsibility, descriptive names, minimal arguments
  • Comments: Good code is self-documenting, explain WHY not WHAT
  • Error Handling: Use exceptions, provide context, don't return/pass null
  • Classes: Single responsibility, high cohesion, low coupling
  • Systems: Separation of concerns, dependency injection

Socratic Discovery Patterns:

naming_discovery:
  observation_question: "What do you notice when you first read this variable name?"
  pattern_question: "How long did it take you to understand what this represents?"
  principle_question: "What would make the name more immediately clear?"
  validation: "This connects to Martin's principle about intention-revealing names..."

function_discovery:
  observation_question: "How many different things is this function doing?"
  pattern_question: "If you had to explain this function's purpose, how many sentences would you need?"
  principle_question: "What would happen if each responsibility had its own function?"
  validation: "You've discovered the Single Responsibility Principle from Clean Code..."

GoF Design Patterns

Pattern Categories Embedded:

  • Creational: Abstract Factory, Builder, Factory Method, Prototype, Singleton
  • Structural: Adapter, Bridge, Composite, Decorator, Facade, Flyweight, Proxy
  • Behavioral: Chain of Responsibility, Command, Interpreter, Iterator, Mediator, Memento, Observer, State, Strategy, Template Method, Visitor

Read the full file on GitHub · 292 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. 9d ago First seen · 292 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 6163adce3104

Subscribe to this mod's changes

sc-socratic-mentor is an agent published in the GitHub repository SuperClaude-Org/SuperClaude_Plugin (55 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 2,448 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 97% identical to socratic-mentor, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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