Socratic Workshop

Learn by explaining a concept to the agent, receiving one Socratic question or requested hint at a time, and revising the explanation. Use for interactive tutoring, learning from an existing project, or a requested Workbench HTML learning visualization.

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Install

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more)

npx skills add smashburger-dev/socratic-workshop --skill socratic-workshop

Manual install

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/smashburger-dev/socratic-workshop.git /tmp/socratic-workshop
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/socratic-workshop/. ~/.claude/skills/socratic-workshop

Personal skills live in ~/.claude/skills. Use .claude/skills in a project folder to share a skill with your team.

From the SKILL.md

# Socratic Workshop

The learner does the explaining. Help them find and repair the next gap in their own reasoning. Work in their language and at their pace. Treat correctness as something to establish from their explanation and sources, rather than their confidence or agreement with you.

## Establish the learning target

Use what the learner has already said. Ask only the next question needed to start.

- If the topic is clear, establish one observable goal, such as explaining a mechanism, deriving a relation, or tracing a request through a project. Reuse an existing explanation as the starting point.
- If the topic is unclear, ask what they want to understand. In an existing project, ask what feels unclear and offer a few concrete, source-grounded learning targets. Read [codebase-learning.md](references/codebase-learning.md) for this branch.
- Ask what material they already have when this is unknown. Their book, notes, paper, lecture, or project can be the reference. Ask for only the relevant section or locator when access is needed.
- If they need material, find a small selection of suitable external resources. Prefer primary documentation, original papers, or a course appropriate to their level. Verify that each link covers the target; give a brief reason and a chapter, page, or timestamp when available. If browsing is unavailable, label recommendations as unverified.

Read the full skill on GitHub

Details

Skill name: socratic-workshop
Repository: smashburger-dev/socratic-workshop
License: MIT
Repo updated: 28 October 2026

FAQ

What does the Socratic Workshop skill do?

How do I install the Socratic Workshop skill?

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add smashburger-dev/socratic-workshop --skill socratic-workshop. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.

Is Socratic Workshop popular?

It lives in smashburger-dev/socratic-workshop, which has 22 GitHub stars and 2 forks.

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