socratic-ping

socratic-ping is a skill for Claude Code from VicBa2000/socratiskill. It costs 43 tokens per session (389 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A small installation check for the Socratiskill plugin, including whether it can read the user's profile file.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it with /socratic-ping to display the plugin version, profile settings when found, and the profile path.
Why use it?
It gives a quick confirmation that the plugin is installed and identifies whether the expected profile is available.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Part of the socratiskill plugin — 2 skills, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it with /socratic-ping to display the plugin version, profile settings when found, and the profile path.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vicba2000/socratiskill/socratic-ping
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 VicBa2000/socratiskill --skill socratic-ping
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/VicBa2000/socratiskill

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install socratiskill, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 3 hooks.

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-ping

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/vicba2000/socratiskill/socratic-ping.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/vicba2000/socratiskill/socratic-ping)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/vicba2000/socratiskill/socratic-ping"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/vicba2000/socratiskill/socratic-ping.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 389 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 $0.00043 $0.00389
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00195
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00078
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00039

Measured 8d ago against content hash b056ef18b29e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

socratic-ping 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.

skills/socratic-ping/SKILL.md · 48 lines

What it actually says

Socratic Ping

Hello-world probe that confirms the Socratiskill plugin is installed and that the harness can read the user's profile file.

Path convention (<plugin-root>)

This file lives at <plugin-root>/skills/socratic-ping/SKILL.md. When the instructions below mention reading a file relative to the plugin (e.g. the plugin manifest), <plugin-root> resolves to two directories above this SKILL.md.

Instructions

When the user invokes /socratic-ping:

  1. Read <plugin-root>/.claude-plugin/plugin.json with the Read tool to obtain the name and version fields (single source of truth for the plugin version — do NOT hardcode).
  2. Try to read ~/.claude/socratic/profile.json with the Read tool.
  3. Respond in exactly this format (one line per item):
pong
plugin:  <name from manifest> v<version from manifest>
profile: <global_level from JSON> | <mode> | calibrated=<true|false>
path:    ~/.claude/socratic/profile.json
  1. If the profile file does not exist or cannot be read, respond:
pong
plugin:  <name from manifest> v<version from manifest>
profile: (not found — run /socratiskill:socratic calibrate)
path:    ~/.claude/socratic/profile.json

Do not add explanations. This skill is only a probe — it must NOT activate any pedagogical logic.

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 · 48 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A b056ef18b29e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

socratic-ping is a skill published in the GitHub repository VicBa2000/socratiskill (4 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 389 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories