shared-dao

shared-dao is a skill for Claude Code from haowjy/creative-writing-skills. It costs 34 tokens per session (744 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. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

Part of the cw plugin — 24 skills 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 cw, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 24 skills.

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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 744 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 29 Jun 2026
  • Snyk pass 29 Jun 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 $0.00034 $0.00744
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00372
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00149
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00074

Measured 12d ago against content hash 4422e8cfb22c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, 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 12d 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.

cw/skills/shared-dao/SKILL.md · 93 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 93 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Shared Dao

Shared vocabulary is the contract between the author's intent and agent action. Ambiguous, overloaded, drifting, or misleading terms corrupt drafts early: magic systems get renamed, factions blur together, genre terms mean different things in different prompts, and characters speak with vocabulary the author never intended.

Treat vocabulary problems as story-structure problems. Resolve terminology while the meaning is still easy to sharpen.

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 the author's judgment is required

Where Vocab Lives

Place terms at the lowest common scope where they are shared:

  • Project vocab (kb/vocab.md): terms used across the whole story
  • Domain vocab (kb/<domain>/vocab.md): terms specific to one domain, such as worldbuilding, characters, factions, or timeline eras
  • Work notes (work/...): provisional vocabulary during story-planning or drafting, promoted to kb/ once settled

Each entry includes:

  • Canonical name: the form agents should use
  • Definition: one to three sentences. Include boundaries that prevent likely confusion.
  • Aliases: names the author, characters, drafts, or older kb pages actually use
  • Source: where the usage was established or decided

Discovery

Before defining new terms, check what already exists:

  1. Read relevant vocab files.
  2. Search CLAUDE.md, kb pages, outlines, drafts, and work notes.
  3. Spawn focused subagents when the search is broad enough to crowd your context.
  4. Check how the author uses the term in conversation and prose.

Mint new terms when they mark a real new concept. Let new vocabulary reflect clear distinctions rather than uncertainty, local convenience, or unexamined drift.

Read the full file on GitHub · 93 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. 12d ago First seen · 93 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 4422e8cfb22c

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shared-dao is a skill published in the GitHub repository haowjy/creative-writing-skills (457 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 744 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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