Get Socratic tutoring on a problem you're stuck on
Get questions that lead you to the answer, not the answer that skips the part where you learn.
- Use it for
- Anyone stuck on a problem set, proof, or exercise who wants to actually understand it, not just finish it.
Asking a model to solve your problem gets you unstuck for exactly this problem and leaves you exactly as stuck on the next one that uses the same idea, because reading a solution and constructing one are different skills, and only one of them is what you actually needed. A real tutor doesn't hand you the answer — they ask the question that makes the next step obvious to you, which is a slower path to this one answer and a much faster path to being able to solve the next ten.
This prompt asks for exactly that: a tutor that won't just tell you, even when you ask it to, until you've had a real shot at getting there yourself.
When not to use this
Not for when you're on a deadline and genuinely just need the answer — that's a legitimate need, and this is the wrong tool for it, since it's built to slow you down on purpose. Use it when the point of the exercise is understanding, not just completion.
Did this work?
You reach the answer yourself, and can explain why the approach works — not because you read an explanation, but because the questions led you there.
Tested on claude-opus-5. Evidence status is draft; it moves to battle-tested only on recorded runs, never by hand.