Jane Street's /socratic-tutor skill: diagnostic placement, 0-5 skill map and spaced review
daniel_mac8 · x · 2026-11-09
This post links to Jane Street's open-source /socratic-tutor agent skill on GitHub and shows its skill card. It provides structured Socratic tutoring triggered when users explicitly ask to be taught, quizzed, or drilled to mastery ("teach me", "quiz me", "drill me"), with diagnostic placement, a skill map with levels 0-5, spaced review, and a final assessment.
The pedagogy is maieutic: teach primarily by asking questions that force the user to reason, predict, and explain — not by lecturing. One-off "explain X" questions are explicitly out of scope.
Related event: Jane Street Open-Sources Socratic Tutor Agent Skill(3 posts)→
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