socratic-gate

socratic-gate is a skill for Claude Code from SKB3002/agenthub. It costs 43 tokens per session (1,107 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A questioning and communication guide for clarifying complex requests, new features, or unclear requirements.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when gathering requirements, shaping a new feature, or communicating through a complicated implementation.
Why use it?
It helps expose missing assumptions early and keeps progress updates and error handling understandable.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the hub plugin — 53 skills, 37 commands, 20 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it when gathering requirements, shaping a new feature, or communicating through a complicated implementation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/skb3002/agenthub/socratic-gate
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 SKB3002/agenthub --skill socratic-gate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SKB3002/agenthub

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install hub, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 53 skills, 37 commands, 20 agents.

Wrote 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.

agentmods badge for socratic-gate

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for socratic-gate

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,107 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 unknown 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 $0.00043 $0.01107
Opus 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00443
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00221
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00111

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 78b3780c4e12, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

socratic-gate 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 1mo 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.

plugins/hub/skills/socratic-gate/SKILL.md · 164 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 1mo ago First seen · 164 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 78b3780c4e12

Subscribe to this mod's changes

socratic-gate is a skill published in the GitHub repository SKB3002/agenthub (4 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 1,107 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-03.

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