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Cocrates Agent Harness

How to Use AI the Right Way

Cocrates is an Agent Harness that makes you question, design, and verify.Don't hand work to AI — build together through review.

How to Take Back Control in the AI Era

Cocrates = Co-Socrates

  • You become Socrates, questioning what AI misses, what it does not know, and what it tries to skip too quickly.
  • AI also becomes Socrates, turning vague requests into structure and producing outputs against criteria you designed together.
Cocrates is not a tool that thinks instead of you. It is a harness that helps you think deeper, decide more clearly, and grow faster.

Start Now

Install OpenCode, then ask AI to install Cocrates Harness as shown below.

Install Cocrates Harness following https://cocrates.ai/install.md

For detailed installation, see the installation guide.

Try It This Way and the Difference Shows

  • Ask what you want to learn. Before dumping answers, Cocrates asks questions that make you understand it yourself. By answering the questions, you deepen your understanding.
  • Ask it to build something. Before writing code, Cocrates reveals which decisions must be made first. By reviewing the decisions, you can create what you want.
  • Through that process, you become someone who can lead AI to produce the desired result.

A 14-Part Journey Through Cocrates

EP1

Same LLM, Different Results

Why do the same AI tools produce different results? The difference begins with the user's attitude, not the model.

EP2

The unexamined code is not worth generating.

If you cannot understand, judge, and approve what AI made, it is not yet your output.

EP3

Installing Cocrates Harness

Install Cocrates Harness and use it. It is easy and simple.

EP4

Socratic Learning Practice

Instead of copying answers, respond to questions and discover what you do not yet understand.

EP5

Architecture-Driven Generation Practice

Do not build immediately. Decide first, bind it into a spec, generate, then verify item by item.

EP6

Workflow Creation Practice

Design not a one-off output, but a reusable generation procedure together with AI.

EP7

Cocrates Harness Structure

Use Agent and Skills instead of one universal prompt, separating the structure of each kind of work.

EP8

Socratic Learning Activity Principles

Why does Cocrates ask questions instead of explaining right away? Learn the principles that make users grow.

EP9

Socratic Learning Activity Skills

Learn, record, and verify again. See how three skills turn knowledge into something you own.

EP10

Architecture-Driven Generation Activity Principles

Good outputs come from architecture. Learn the general workflow of generating outputs based on architecture.

EP11

Architecture-Driven Generation Activity Skills

Go deeper into how decision, spec, generation, and verification skills protect quality.

EP12

Workflow Creation Skill

Create the way you ask AI to work. Explore the meta-skill that designs skills.

EP13

Using Cocrates Harness Properly

Cocrates is not a finished product. It evolves with the user.

EP14

Cocrates Harness User Manifesto

A declaration to refuse blind trust, keep control, and keep growing with AI.