socratic-spec SKILL.md skillA
socratic-spec from rikvanriel/code-hygiene is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add rikvanriel/code-hygiene/socratic-spec@v1.1.0Pins v1.1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- rikvanriel/code-hygiene
- Path
skills/socratic-spec/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v1.1.0, committed Sep 17, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 16, 2026
- Size
- 4,207 bytes
- Repository stars
- 2
- License
- MIT
Use when the goal is ambiguous, needs clarifying, or has 3+ steps. Builds a spec one question per turn.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Socratic Spec — Interview Human to Assemble Spec Pre-plan phase. Role: divergent — close open questions and produce spec. One Q per turn until 0 blocking Qs remain. ## When this fires ≥3 steps, ambiguous goal, unclear non-goals, or user request is "build X" with no constraints listed. Socratic mode for ≤2-step trivial edits is waste — skip. ## Flow 1. Load `project-discovery` first — upstream rules bound questions you ask. 2. Start from template 7 headings (draft spec even if unknown — TODO marks blocking Q): ```markdown # <slug> spec ## Goal — what it IS and provides (positive, checkable, not "not X" / "free") ## Constraints — must obey (performance, compatibility, style gate, DCO, existing tests) ## Non-goals — explicitly out of scope + why (link to provenance if history) ## Actors / interfaces — who calls what, ownership, lifecycle ## Edge cases — concurrency, failure, security, perf ## Verification — how we know done (cmd + expected output, not "test it") ## Open Qs — blocking questions for human ``` 3. Loop: ask one pointed question per turn, capture answer into spec file, shrink Open Qs. 4. Question banks: …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add rikvanriel/code-hygiene/socratic-spec@sha256:9478f37e544f944cThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.1.0, 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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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Sep 16, 2026 and Sep 17, 2026, more than one a day.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.1.0 latest | 2026-09-17 | f466313 | 4,207 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1.0 | 2026-09-17 | 4fc5ed9 | 4,202 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1.0 | 2026-09-17 | 6de94e8 | 4,179 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1.0 | 2026-09-16 | a69317f | 4,236 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-09-16 | c53b7e1 | 3,239 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 (4207 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
rikvanriel/code-hygiene · 2 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-16 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_zvzfcyhihomxvb3p GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=rikvanriel/code-hygiene/socratic-spec GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/9478f37e544f944ced6401d62186285d6deab6eb164c0390523d1171c0dd6782
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