Jane Street releases Socratic Tutor agent skill

On November 10, 2026 at 18:18, Jane Street released the socratic-tutor skill in its agent_skills repository on GitHub, and the announcement quickly surfaced on the Hacker News front page. The skill is defined in a single SKILL.md file that sets out how an Agent should behave: rather than handing out answers directly, it is meant to guide users toward reaching their own conclusions through Socratic questioning. In effect, the skill is designed to lead people through probing questions instead of giving them the answer upfront.

The Hacker News entry attracted 506 points and 115 comments, making it a visible item on the site's front page at the time. The skill file is available at https://github.com/janestreet/agent_skills/blob/master/socratic-tutor/SKILL.md, while the associated discussion can be found at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50438261.

As of the available reporting, the socratic-tutor skill is documented only through its GitHub release and the Hacker News discussion that followed. No further details about later updates, usage metrics, or follow-up changes to the skill have been reported, so the public record currently stops at the point where the skill was published and posted to Hacker News.