New build just dropped in r/PromptEngineering. It’s called Socratic Prompt Coach, completely free, no account needed.
The flow is dead simple: describe what you want, answer 3-5 targeted questions, get a production-ready prompt out the other end.
Here’s the twist. The questioning IS the product. Most prompt tools skip straight to generation. This one stops you first and forces you to interrogate your own intent. That’s the whole thesis: you don’t fail at prompting because you can’t write. You fail because you haven’t actually figured out what you want yet.
Here’s how to run it:
- 🔍 Go to socratic-prompts.com and describe your goal in plain language
- Answer the questions it throws back at you (intent, audience, format, constraints, edge cases)
- Don’t rush the answers, that’s where the real work happens
- Take the synthesized prompt and drop it straight into your workflow ✅
Pro tip: Even if you toss the final output, the questioning process is worth doing. After a few runs you’ll start doing this interrogation automatically before every prompt you write. Intent + audience + constraints + edge cases, every time. That’s a real skill building in the background.
Worth 10 minutes. 🧠 Go test it and see if the final prompt actually beats what you’d have written cold.
Free Socratic method tool for prompt refinement — looking for feedback
by u/asdf1795 in PromptEngineering