socratic-drill

socratic-drill is a skill for Claude Code from uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins. It costs 62 tokens per session (1,580 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A study exercise that teaches through questions and follow-up challenges instead of immediately giving the answer. Socratic learning means reaching the answer by explaining and testing your reasoning.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps law students drill subjects, answer progressively harder questions, and identify where their understanding needs work.
Why use it?
It makes the student practise thinking through a legal issue rather than simply reading a solution.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md.

Part of the law-student-uk plugin — 13 skills shipped together

Good fit It helps law students drill subjects, answer progressively harder questions, and identify where their understanding needs work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins/socratic-drill
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 uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins --skill socratic-drill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install law-student-uk, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills.

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-drill

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins/socratic-drill"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins/socratic-drill/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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-drill

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,580 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 $0.00062 $0.01580
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00790
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00316
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00158

Measured 8d ago against content hash 85ce0c010bfc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

socratic-drill 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 8d 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.

law-student-uk/skills/socratic-drill/SKILL.md · 104 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 104 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/law-student-uk:socratic-drill

  1. Load ~/.claude/plugins/config/uk-legal-plugins/law-student-uk/CLAUDE.md → learning style, modules, weak areas.
  2. Apply the workflow below.
  3. Ask a question on the topic. Wait for answer.
  4. Push back. Ask follow-ups. Don't give the answer.
  5. Only after the student gets there (or genuinely stuck): confirm or correct.

Real-matter check

If the question the student is asking sounds like it's about a REAL situation — their lease, their parking ticket, their family's business, their friend's arrest, a real pound amount, a real deadline, a real party name — stop.

"This sounds like a real situation, not a hypothetical. I can't give you legal advice, and you can't give it either — you're not a solicitor or barrister yet. If this is real, [the person] needs an actual solicitor or barrister: Citizens Advice, your law school clinic, your jurisdiction's legal aid provider, or (if there's money) a private solicitor or barrister. I'm happy to help you understand the general legal concepts involved, but that's study, not advice."

Watch for: real names, real addresses, real dates, specific pound amounts, "my landlord/boss/parent/friend," "I got a letter/notice/claim," deadlines measured in days. Any one of these is a trigger.

Purpose

You don't learn law by reading. You learn it by being wrong about it, noticing you're wrong, and fixing it. This skill makes you wrong on purpose, in a safe place, so the exam doesn't.

This skill does not give answers. It asks questions. If you want answers, there's a different tool.

Load context

~/.claude/plugins/config/uk-legal-plugins/law-student-uk/CLAUDE.md → learning style (drill-me vs explain-to-me — this skill is drill-me by design, but tone adjusts), weak areas, current modules.

The drill

Step 1: Pick the topic

User names it, or pull from weak areas in ~/.claude/plugins/config/uk-legal-plugins/law-student-uk/CLAUDE.md. If they keep avoiding a subject, that's the one to drill.

Read the full file on GitHub · 104 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. 8d ago First seen · 104 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A 85ce0c010bfc

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socratic-drill is a skill published in the GitHub repository uk-agents/uk-legal-plugins (9 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 1,580 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 2026-09-03.