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Agent Skills from Jane Street

Jane Street released a collection of agent skills, distributed as directories each containing a SKILL.md file with instructions for AI agents and chatbots. The first listed skill, socratic-tutor, turns an LLM into a strict personal tutor that teaches a chosen topic via the Socratic method, using a diagnostic, a skill map with levels 0-5, one question at a time, spaced review, and a final assessment. Users install a skill by copying its directory into a coding agent's skills folder and asking the agent to use it, or by pasting the SKILL.md body into a plain chatbot's prompt.

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Agent Skills from Jane Street
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A collection of skills for AI agents and chatbots. Each skill is a directory containing a SKILL.md file with instructions for the agent.

  • socratic-tutor — turns an LLM into a strict personal tutor that teaches a topic of your choice using the Socratic method: a diagnostic, a skill map with levels 0-5, one question at a time, spaced review, and a final assessment.

With a coding agent that supports the common SKILL.md format, copy the skill directory into your agent's skills folder, then ask the agent to use it

("teach me X"). With a plain chatbot, paste the body of the skill's SKILL.md into the chat (or into a custom/system prompt), followed by what you want it to do.

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