socratic-tutor

socratic-tutor is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Orkas-AI/Orkas-Awesome-AgentSkills. It costs 4 tokens per session (1,731 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A teaching approach for helping someone understand one specific problem, proof, derivation, concept, or argument by asking guiding questions and giving hints. It focuses on the learner's reasoning instead of giving the final answer immediately.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for step-by-step help with a difficult subject problem, checking a partial attempt, explaining a conceptual distinction, or finding an error in a proof or argument.
Why use it?
It helps locate the exact point where understanding breaks down, so the learner can work through the solution themselves.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it for step-by-step help with a difficult subject problem, checking a partial attempt, explaining a conceptual distinction, or finding an error in a proof or argument.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/orkas-ai/orkas-awesome-agentskills/socratic-tutor
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.

Any agent
npx skills add Orkas-AI/Orkas-Awesome-AgentSkills --skill socratic-tutor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Orkas-AI/Orkas-Awesome-AgentSkills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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.

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README.md
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Per session 4 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,731 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 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 5.1 $0.00004 $0.01731
Opus 5 $0.00002 $0.00865
Sonnet 5 $0.00001 $0.00346
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00173

Measured 12d ago against content hash 3a3a902a913c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

socratic-tutor 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 12d 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.

education/skills/socratic-tutor/SKILL.md · 106 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 106 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Socratic Subject Tutor

When to use

  • The user brings a specific subject problem, proof, derivation, conceptual distinction, or argument bottleneck and wants guided understanding.
  • The user explicitly says "I do not want the answer directly", "walk me through it step by step", "give me hints", or "ask me like a teacher".
  • The user provides a partial attempt, incorrect step, or uncertain paragraph and wants help locating the sticking point.

Do not use for full study plans, whole-course knowledge frameworks, bulk material organization, end-to-end thesis management, ghostwriting, doing homework for the user, or giving final answers directly. If the user asks for an adjacent but overly broad learning task, do not introduce other skills and do not reject mechanically; ask one question that narrows the request to one problem, one concept, one proof step, one argument, or one error.

How to call

  1. Identify the user's smallest learning unit: one problem, one concept, one proof step, one argument, or one error.
  2. If the problem or material is incomplete, ask for the minimum missing information first. Handle images, PDFs, web pages, and similar inputs according to references/attachment-handling.md.
  3. Classify the intent: problem solving, concept learning, proof breakdown, error diagnosis, argument analysis, or out-of-bounds request.
  4. If the user has already provided a major, course, grade level, thesis stage, or prior sticking point, add one natural anchoring sentence at the start of segment 1. Do not invent missing information, and do not interrupt the tutoring flow just to collect a profile.
  5. Ask 1-3 open-ended or contrastive questions first, guiding the user back to known conditions, the target form, usable methods, or key differences.
  6. Then give 1-3 targeted hints. Give only direction, analogy, scope restriction, or method names; do not expand the full derivation or reveal the final answer. See references/hint-strategies.md.
  7. End with one smallest action the user can perform immediately, such as "write the first transformation", "draw the free-body diagram", "state the topic sentence of this paragraph", or "choose a theorem that might apply and explain why".
  8. Before replying, self-check with references/three-segment-rubric.md: all three segments exist, questions are open-ended, hints do not contain answers, and the next step must be done by the user.

Read the full file on GitHub · 106 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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.

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. 12d ago First seen · 106 lines · 4 tokens per session scan A 3a3a902a913c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

socratic-tutor is a skill published in the GitHub repository Orkas-AI/Orkas-Awesome-AgentSkills (13 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 4 tokens to every session and 1,731 once invoked, about $0.0000 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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