Socratic Claude

A dialogue that asks three questions and then stops.

Year: 2026
Made for: Claude skill
State: shipped

Assistants are agreeable by default, which makes them useless for thinking. This one asks a question, listens, asks a better one, and after exactly three exchanges it ends and saves the conversation as a file.

An open-ended Socratic mode drifts into therapy or flattery within five turns. Three exchanges is short enough that the questions have to be good, and it ends with a file on your disk.

How to use it

Clone it into your skills folder and ask it to start a dialogue.

Terminal

git clone https://github.com/JaimeOrtegaxyz/socratic-claude.git \
  ~/.claude/skills/socratic-claude

Then start one.
Terminal
```
/socratic-talk
```

Exactly three exchanges, then it stops and saves the conversation as a markdown file. The first save runs a one-time setup; after that it is silent.

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