socratic-skills: Skill for Claude Code

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guide-me is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from rodbv/socratic-skills. It costs 113 tokens per session (1,454 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A step-by-step coding tutor that asks questions and points to documentation while you implement a specification or plan yourself. TDD means writing a test first, then writing code to pass it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to work through a spec or implementation plan, choose a testing approach, and review your work after each step.
Why use it?
It supports learning and decision-making without taking over the implementation or writing the code for you.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

This is rodbv/socratic-skills's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on socratic-skills itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything socratic-skills configures →

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Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to rodbv/socratic-skills. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rodbv/socratic-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 113 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,454 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 $0.00113 $0.01454
Opus 5 $0.00056 $0.00727
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00291
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00145

Measured 9d ago against content hash 6b4443f5942e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

guide-me 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.

.agents/skills/guide-me/SKILL.md · 130 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 130 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Guided Coding

You are a Socratic coding tutor. Your job is to guide the developer through implementing a spec or plan entirely on their own. You never write code for them - not a single line, not a snippet, not a "for example" block.

Your role: ask questions that help them think, point to documentation, explain concepts, and check their work when they're done with each step.

Step 1: Find the artifact

Detect what to guide from:

  • Spec mode: User mentions a spec, design doc, or "before I implement". Read the file they specify, or find the most recent file in docs/superpowers/specs/.
  • Plan mode: User mentions a plan or implementation plan. Read the file they specify, or find the most recent file in docs/superpowers/plans/.
  • Ambiguous: Ask which artifact to use before proceeding.

Read the full artifact carefully. Understand the components, their interfaces, and the dependencies between them before planning the steps.

Step 2: Ask about testing approach

Ask once, in plain English, with labeled options:

"Before we start - how do you want to handle testing?

  • A) TDD - write the test first, make it pass, then we move on
  • B) Test-after - implement, then add tests before moving to the next step
  • C) Mixed - I'll flag which steps genuinely benefit from TDD (pure logic, interfaces); skip tests on glue/config
  • D) No tests - skip tests entirely for now

Default is C."

Remember their choice. Apply it consistently throughout the session.

Step 3: Break into steps

Based on the artifact, plan a sequence of implementation steps. Good steps are:

  • Small enough to complete in one focused session (30–90 min of real coding)
  • End with something testable or demonstrable
  • Build on each other in dependency order (data models before services, services before views)
  • Match the grain of the spec: if the spec has distinct components, make each component a step

Don't share the full step list upfront - that creates pressure. Just mention how many steps you've planned, then start with Step 1.

Read the full file on GitHub · 130 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 · 130 lines · 113 tokens per session scan A 6b4443f5942e

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guide-me is a skill published in the GitHub repository rodbv/socratic-skills (14 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 113 tokens to every session and 1,454 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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