shared-dao

shared-dao is a skill for Claude Code from haowjy/creative-writing-skills. It costs 42 tokens per session (347 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A shared vocabulary system for creative writing projects that keeps important story terms, names, and meanings consistent.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define project or domain terms, resolve ambiguous names, and check terminology across worldbuilding, characters, factions, and timelines.
Why use it?
It reduces confusion caused by changing names, unclear concepts, or the same word being used for different things.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the creative-writing-skills plugin — 28 skills, 5 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to define project or domain terms, resolve ambiguous names, and check terminology across worldbuilding, characters, factions, and timelines.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/haowjy/creative-writing-skills/shared-dao
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.

Any agent
npx skills add haowjy/creative-writing-skills --skill shared-dao
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/haowjy/creative-writing-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install creative-writing-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 28 skills, 5 agents.

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README.md
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Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 347 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
  • Socket pass 28 Oct 2026
  • Snyk pass 28 Oct 2026
  • 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 $0.00042 $0.00347
Opus 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00139
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00069
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00035

Measured 10d ago against content hash 22172fcc9b62, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

shared-dao 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 10d ago.

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.

plugin/claude/skills/shared-dao/SKILL.md · 48 lines

What it actually says

Shared Dao

Load /creative-writing-skills:qi-layer if it isn't already loaded.

Shared vocabulary is a structural boundary between human intent and action. Ambiguous, overloaded, drifting, or misleading terms corrupt reasoning early and spread confusion through everything downstream. Treat vocabulary problems as design problems.

Core Discipline

Scrutinize important terms aggressively. Reuse existing names when they already fit the concept. Converge on one name per concept and one concept per name as quickly as the evidence allows.

Resolve terminology early:

  • rename when the clearer term is available
  • define when the concept is real but still blurry
  • flag when human judgment is genuinely required

Discovery

Before defining new terms, check what already exists: vocab files, KB pages, code, prior decisions. A term defined elsewhere under a different name is a conflict, not a new concept.

Disambiguation

  • Same term, different meanings: pick one meaning for canonical, give the other its own name.
  • Different terms, same meaning: pick one as canonical, record the others as aliases.
  • Unclear meaning: interview until meaning converges, then define.

When terminology conflicts with existing usage and you cannot resolve it, flag explicitly rather than carrying two competing names forward.

Clear vocabulary compounds through every downstream artifact. Resolve terminology while the meaning is still easy to sharpen.

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. 10d ago Changed · -45 lines · +8 tokens per session 22172fcc9b62
  2. 19d ago Changed 6255a6d2ff31
  3. 2mo ago First seen · 93 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 4422e8cfb22c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

shared-dao is a skill published in the GitHub repository haowjy/creative-writing-skills (567 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 347 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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