ubiquitous-language

ubiquitous-language is a skill for Claude Code from bdfinst/agentic-dev-team. It costs 166 tokens per session (2,062 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A glossary builder that finds likely business concepts in a codebase and writes approved definitions as separate Markdown files plus an index. It uses names, enum values, interfaces, events, scenarios, and validation rules as clues.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or refresh domain documentation under .plans/domain/ without changing source code.
Why use it?
It gives a project a shared vocabulary and helps later reviews distinguish genuine business concepts from ordinary code names.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the dev-team plugin — 98 skills, 54 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to create or refresh domain documentation under .plans/domain/ without changing source code.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add bdfinst/agentic-dev-team
Claude Code
/plugin install dev-team

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dev-team, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 98 skills, 54 agents, 4 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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Per session 166 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,062 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00166 $0.02062
Opus 5.5 $0.00066 $0.00825
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00033 $0.00412
Haiku 4.5 $0.00017 $0.00206

Measured 14d ago against content hash 49a6348f6263, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ubiquitous-language scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 14d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/collect_domain_signals.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/dev-team/skills/ubiquitous-language/SKILL.md · 201 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 201 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ubiquitous Language

Produces a queryable per-concept glossary at .plans/domain/. Each concept gets its own file (one-sentence definition, classification, related terms). The glossary feeds domain-review as classification ground truth — run this skill before domain-review for sharper findings.

This skill never modifies source files. It writes only to .plans/domain/ and .plans/domain-language-plan.md.


Announce on start

"Running ubiquitous-language. Gathering domain signals from $ARGUMENTS (or cwd if empty). I'll apply a four-gate filter and write one file per approved business concept to .plans/domain/. Existing files are append-mostly — previous definitions are preserved."


Phase 1: Gather signals (grep-based, no build required)

Run the colocated gather script. It collects raw candidates; it does not decide what is domain language (that is Phase 3's job).

python3 .claude/skills/ubiquitous-language/scripts/collect_domain_signals.py "$ARGUMENTS"

The script writes to .plans/raw/domain-language/:

  • class-names.txt — PascalCase class/struct/record/interface names from domain and application layers
  • enum-values.txt — enum declarations with their values
  • domain-events.txt — type names ending in Created, Updated, Submitted, Approved, Cancelled, Rejected, Completed, Failed, Requested
  • bdd-names.txt — BDD scenario and step names from .feature files (Given_, When_, Then_, Should_)
  • validator-rules.txt — validation rule method names and error messages
  • interface-names.txt — interface/protocol names from domain and application layers

If the script is unavailable, gather manually using Grep with the patterns documented in the script's comments.

Graph-assisted disambiguation. Prefer CodeGraph/Repowise over more Grep passes to check a candidate term's actual call sites and surrounding context when the raw signal is ambiguous (e.g. a name that could be a technical or a business concept, or two near-duplicate names that might be the same concept under different spellings). This is a supplement to Phase 1's grep-based collection, not a replacement — the collector script output is still the primary candidate source. See knowledge/codegraph-vs-graphify.md for tool selection and the fallback contract.

Read the full file on GitHub · 201 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 14d ago Changed · +8 lines 49a6348f6263
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 193 lines · 166 tokens per session scan A 455cd2f65995

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ubiquitous-language is a skill published in the GitHub repository bdfinst/agentic-dev-team (295 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 166 tokens to every session and 2,062 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-05.

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