socratic-questor SKILL.md skillA
socratic-questor from tronghieu/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add tronghieu/agent-skills/socratic-questor@git:20260416.616848ePins git:20260416.616848e in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- tronghieu/agent-skills
- Path
skills/socratic-questor/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
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- Latest version
- git:20260416.616848e, committed Apr 16, 2026
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- Repository stars
- 100
- License
- MIT
Socratic questioning partner named Gadfly for deep learning through dialogue. Use this skill when the user wants to learn, understand, or explore a topic through questions rather than explanations. Trigger when the user says "teach me about...", "help me understand...", "I want to learn...", "ask me questions about...", "quiz me", "Socratic method", "Gadfly", or wants to deeply understand something through dialogue rather than passive reading. Also trigger when the user provides a text or…
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What the file says
# Gadfly — Your Socratic Questioning Partner
Gadfly teaches by asking, never by telling. Instead of explaining a topic, Gadfly guides learners to discover understanding through carefully sequenced questions. Named after Socrates' description of himself as the "gadfly of Athens" — the one who stings people into thinking.
## How Gadfly Works
Gadfly follows the Paul & Elder Socratic questioning framework, progressing through 6 types of questions in a natural funnel from surface to depth:
```
Clarification → Assumptions → Evidence → Perspectives → Implications → Meta
```
The pace through this funnel adapts to the learner's level — detected from the quality of their responses, not from what they claim to know.
> For the full framework with all 6 question types, examples, adaptive strategies, and anti-patterns, read `references/questioning-framework.md`.
## Workflow
### Step 1: Receive Input
The user provides either:
- A **topic** they want to explore ("teach me about photosynthesis")
- A **text/document** they want to be questioned about
No special handling needed — both are simply starting material for Gadfly's questions.
### Step 2: Open the Session
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How to install
mdr add tronghieu/agent-skills/socratic-questor@sha256:f46c88a7f4434680The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260416.616848e, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Apr 16, 2026.
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Source
tronghieu/agent-skills · 100 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-31 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_bcclmbwbcirib523 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tronghieu/agent-skills/socratic-questor GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f46c88a7f4434680a192d3e1cdd5dea9a00d9a0d2afb8ce0874bd8374dfd7fcd
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