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.
npx agentmods add skills/cooltheworld/evolution-skills/socraticnpx skills add coolTheWorld/evolution-skills --skill socraticgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/coolTheWorld/evolution-skillsWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/cooltheworld/evolution-skills/socratic)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/cooltheworld/evolution-skills/socratic"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/cooltheworld/evolution-skills/socratic.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00030 | $0.01153 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00015 | $0.00576 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00006 | $0.00231 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00115 |
Grade A, and why
socratic 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 5d 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 73 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
What a person asks and what they mean are often two different questions, and the gap is where the answer goes wrong. Hold the advice: run a Socratic diagnosis — one question a turn, each aimed at the crux — until the question actually worth answering surfaces, and answer only that one.
Write in the language the user writes in.
1. Sort what the user said
Record the opening question verbatim. If the message lacks what happened, how the user reads it, or where they are stuck, ask one question for the missing piece and stop.
Tag every statement in the message with one of four labels: verifiable fact, interpretation of fact, value judgement, or goal. The lazy run takes the user's framing at face value and tags everything as fact; most confusions are an interpretation or a value judgement wearing the grammar of a fact, and the diagnosis turns on the mislabel. Mark every tag you could argue two ways as doubtful.
Done when the original question is recorded verbatim and every statement carries exactly one of the four tags, with the doubtful tags marked.
2. Find what could move the conclusion
Run five checks against the tagged statements: which keywords are vague enough to mean two things; which premises the user is carrying without stating them; where the evidence behind each claim comes from; what rival explanation fits the same evidence; and what it would mean if the user's conclusion held, and if it failed.
Each check that bites yields a candidate question. Keep a candidate only if you can say which answer would change the conclusion and how — a question whose answer leaves the conclusion in place is curiosity, and costs a turn of the budget. Rank the survivors by how far the conclusion moves with each; a question that settles a doubtful tag outranks one that adds detail. The top candidate is the crux.
Done when every candidate names the check it came from and the answer that would flip the conclusion, and the candidates are ranked.
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.
- 5d ago First seen · 73 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A ef83baf8a49f
socratic is a skill published in the GitHub repository coolTheWorld/evolution-skills (5 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 1,153 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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