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Socratic Interview

by Q00

Socratic Interview is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by Q00 in ouroboros.

5.4K stars550 forkson Q00/ouroborosAdded 2026/08/16+1% in starsRepository updated 2026/08/16
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Install Socratic Interview
Copy Socratic Interview into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.
terminal
npx degit https://github.com/Q00/ouroboros/tree/main/skills/interview ~/.claude/skills/interview

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/Q00/ouroboros.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file
skills/interview/SKILL.md in Q00/ouroboros
Installs to
~/.claude/skills/interview
Collection
One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category
AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Socratic Interview does

Socratic Interview crystallizes vague requirements into clear specifications through a structured Q&A process. Use it when an agent needs to clarify ambiguous project goals before generating code or plans.

Socratic Interview is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Socratic Interview comes from a repository tagged agent-os, agentic-ai, ai-agent, ai-coding-agent and claude-code.

Frequently asked about Socratic Interview

  • What else does Q00 publish alongside Socratic Interview?

    Socratic Interview is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from Q00/ouroboros, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Brownfield, Brownfield and Cancel. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Socratic Interview does, and is maintained by Q00 in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the Q00/ouroboros page.

  • How does Socratic Interview compare to other AI Engineering skills?

    Socratic Interview ranks #480 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Socratic Interview against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.

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