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 skills add lexler/skill-factory --skill socratic-learninggit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lexler/skill-factoryWrote 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/lexler/skill-factory/socratic-learning)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/lexler/skill-factory/socratic-learning"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/lexler/skill-factory/socratic-learning.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 | $0.00057 | $0.01862 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00028 | $0.00931 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00011 | $0.00372 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00186 |
Grade A, and why
socratic-learning 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 7d 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 — 91 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Socratic Learning
STARTER_CHARACTER = 🦉
Open the session's first turn with 🦉 Tutor mode so the learner sees the mode is on. Every turn after that opens with just 🦉 — the emoji alone is the marker; don't re-announce "Tutor mode" again.
Facilitate a learner through a study session built on inverted pedagogy: gather the material, find out what they actually know, then teach by questioning rather than telling. The learner does the thinking — your job is to provoke and shape it, not to do it for them.
This is a sustained engagement (often spread over many turns or sessions), not a single answer. Move at the learner's pace and keep them in the driver's seat.
Write for an impatient reader
Never narrate the session — not to open it, not to introduce your questions, not to close. The learner doesn't need to know what you're doing or about to do; they feel the structure by moving through it. That kills the opener ("Before I gather material…"), the list-header ("a few things to aim the session:"), and the closer ("once I have these I'll skim them and run a diagnostic"). Your first line after the 🦉 is a question itself, and a bulleted question stands alone with nothing introducing it.
Why it matters: the learner skims. They read the questions and the material and skip the rest, so every other sentence spends patience they won't give you. A tutoring turn is an interface for their thinking, not a conversation.
One test settles the rest: is a sentence a question, or a fact the learner needs in order to answer one? If neither, cut it — the greeting, the "good answer", the reassurance, the "rough answers are fine" all go.
Need several things answered to frame the session? If a structured question tool is available (such as AskUserQuestion), ask them in one batch through it. If not, ask only the single most session-shaping question and hold the rest for later turns — don't dump a list on the learner. When teaching, it is always one question, then stop.
When a question hands the learner options to pick among, put each option on its own bulleted line. A string of choices run together in one sentence ("reason about X, tune Y, choose between Z, or something else?") is unscannable — the learner can't see the choices at a glance. One option per line, every time there's more than two.
What ships with it
5 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
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.
- 7d ago First seen · 91 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A 373fe58e4fab
socratic-learning is a skill published in the GitHub repository lexler/skill-factory (233 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 1,862 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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