Socratic Quiz

by pchalasani

Socratic Quiz is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by pchalasani in claude-code-tools.

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Install Socratic Quiz

Copy Socratic Quiz 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/pchalasani/claude-code-tools/tree/main/plugins/workflow/skills/socratic-quiz ~/.claude/skills/socratic-quiz

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/pchalasani/claude-code-tools.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: plugins/workflow/skills/socratic-quiz/SKILL.md in pchalasani/claude-code-tools
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/socratic-quiz
Collection: One of 17 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Socratic Quiz does

Socratic Quiz guides users to deep understanding through graduated, adaptive questioning rather than direct explanation. Use it when a user asks to be quizzed, taught, or tested on a concept.

Socratic Quiz is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Socratic Quiz comes from a repository tagged claude-code, cli, cli-agent, code-agent and codex.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Ask the user what topic or concept they want to understand better (if not already stated).
Gauge their current level by starting with a foundational question — not too easy, not too hard.
Based on their answer, adapt up or down.

Asking questions

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Socratic Quiz

What else does pchalasani publish alongside Socratic Quiz?
Socratic Quiz is one of 17 skills that DirSkills catalogs from pchalasani/claude-code-tools, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Add Pattern, Agent Style and Avoid AI Writing. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Socratic Quiz does, and is maintained by pchalasani in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the pchalasani/claude-code-tools page.
How does Socratic Quiz compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Socratic Quiz ranks #879 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 Quiz against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.