codename

A skill for suggesting memorable internal codenames for projects. It first studies the project and a naming guide, then proposes names that hint at the project without describing it directly.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a project needs an internal codename based on its purpose, audience, architecture, or other defining traits.
Why use it?
It helps avoid generic names and creates a consistent way to choose names that are easier to remember.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/djrhails/dotfiles/codename
Any agent
npx skills add DJRHails/dotfiles --skill codename
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DJRHails/dotfiles

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 639 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00050 $0.00639
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00319
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00128
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00064

Measured yesterday against content hash 366e016c1cef, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codename 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 yesterday.

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.

modules/agents/skills/codename/SKILL.md · 50 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 50 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Codename Generator

Suggest a codename for a project by applying a principled naming philosophy.

Process

  1. Fetch the naming guide — use WebFetch to read https://hails.info/writing/codenames and extract the full naming philosophy. This is the source of truth for what makes a good codename.

  2. Understand the project — read key files (README, package.json, CLAUDE.md, main source files) to understand:

    • What the project does
    • Core abstractions and metaphors
    • Target audience
    • Key technical properties (e.g. durability, speed, isolation, orchestration)
  3. Apply the naming rules from hails.info:

    • Be suggestive, not descriptive — prefer gatekeeper over identity-service
    • Cute names aid recall — and subtly imply fungibility
    • No pop culture references — if it needs explanation, the suggestive benefit vanishes
    • Separate marketing names from codenames — codenames serve internal technical purposes
    • Use the trademark "suggestive" test — like Coppertone, Greyhound, Tesla: infer meaning without being directly descriptive
  4. If the user provided a theme or constraint, weight suggestions toward it (e.g. "something referencing durability" or "nautical theme").

  5. Generate 5-7 candidates — for each, provide:

    • The name
    • A one-line connection to the project (why it's suggestive)
    • CLI ergonomics check: is it short, easy to type, unambiguous to spell?
    • Conflicts check: is it already a well-known dev tool or product?
  6. Apply the tattoo test to each candidate: if the project's scope evolves (gains features, handles new domains, changes direction), does the name still fit? A good codename suggests a quality or metaphor, not a specific implementation — so it survives scope changes. If the project later does something completely different and the name still works, it passes.

  7. Recommend your top pick with a brief justification covering:

    • How it passes the suggestive test
    • How it passes the tattoo test (resilient to scope changes)
    • Why it fits this specific project
    • How it works in practice (<name> deploy, <name> init, etc.)

Read the full file on GitHub · 50 lines

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. yesterday First seen · 50 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 366e016c1cef

Subscribe to this mod's changes

codename is a skill published in the GitHub repository DJRHails/dotfiles (2 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 639 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-31.

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