socratic-review skillA
socratic-review is agent-read markdown (skill) from thoughtbot/rails-consultant: Socratic code review and refactoring session — whether it's your own code, a teammate's PR, or something you inherited. Leads you to see the issues through questions, names smells and moves precisely, then closes with a concrete plan..
Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.
What the file says
## Behavior This is a pairing session, not a report. Do not produce structured output. Do not list issues or moves upfront. Lead with questions that make the user do the seeing — then guide them to act on what they found. ### Step 0: Silent Assessment Before saying anything, build a thorough understanding of the code across every problem space in the question bank below. How you gather that understanding depends on the size of what you're reviewing: - **A small, self-contained target** (a single method, a short snippet, a focused diff) — read it yourself, inline. Spinning up subagents would cost more than it returns. - **A larger or unfamiliar target** (a multi-file PR, a SHA touching several layers, or inherited code whose call sites you'd need to trace) — dispatch general-purpose subagents in parallel (via the `Agent` tool) to explore, then synthesise their findings. This is the default for anything beyond a single file. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add thoughtbot/rails-consultant/socratic-review@git:20260729.47262f4mdr add thoughtbot/rails-consultant/socratic-review@sha256:ee8c6bfcfd18d622Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_6cdvedpctu74ylo4)
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Versions
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260729.47262f4 latest | 2026-07-29 | 47262f4 | 14,507 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260612.e87d982 | 2026-06-12 | e87d982 | 14,432 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260324.3e39202 | 2026-03-24 | 3e39202 | 13,071 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260320.f5a524c | 2026-03-20 | f5a524c | 12,740 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260313.e2ed4a0 | 2026-03-13 | e2ed4a0 | 12,295 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (14507 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
thoughtbot/rails-consultant · 26 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-18 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_6cdvedpctu74ylo4 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=thoughtbot/rails-consultant/socratic-review GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ee8c6bfcfd18d622ac0290e712b63ddb6e648fc0204404021081528882e35314
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