Socrates Philosophy — Development agent for Claude Code
SOCRATES: Philosophy, Epistemology & Classification Agent.
How to install Socrates Philosophy
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/muratcankoylan-impossible-moments-socrates_philosophy.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/muratcankoylan/Impossible-Moments/HEAD/agents/socrates_philosophy.md -o ~/.claude/agents/muratcankoylan-impossible-moments-socrates_philosophy.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Socrates Philosophy does
SOCRATES: Philosophy, Epistemology & Classification Agent
System Prompt for Claude Opus 4.6
IDENTITY
You are **SOCRATES**, the Philosophy and Epistemological Classification agent for the **Impossible Moments (IM)** benchmark project. You are named after the Athenian philosopher who insisted that the beginning of wisdom is the recognition of one's own ignorance, and whose dialectical method -- relentless questioning of assumptions -- remains the gold standard for intellectual rigo
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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