quaere-naming

quaere-naming is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from haru0416-dev/quaere. It costs 178 tokens per session (2,538 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A naming-guidance skill for choosing names for products, libraries, command-line tools, bots, and apps. It requires a concrete idea behind each name and checks whether the name is available before presenting it.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when naming or renaming a software project, brand, SaaS product, CLI, bot, or app.
Why use it?
It reduces the chance of choosing a generic name or one that is already being used.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex; mentions OpenCode.

Good fit Use it when naming or renaming a software project, brand, SaaS product, CLI, bot, or app.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/haru0416-dev/quaere/quaere-naming
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 haru0416-dev/quaere --skill quaere-naming
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/haru0416-dev/quaere

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 178 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,538 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 $0.00178 $0.02538
Opus 5 $0.00089 $0.01269
Sonnet 5 $0.00036 $0.00508
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00254

Measured 9d ago against content hash 291f42a34012, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

quaere-naming scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/check-availability.sh), 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

**No name reaches the user without three things named: the metaphor it compresses (its origin story), a tool-verified availability status (real `whois` / `curl` / `npm` / WebSearch checks, never recalled from memory), an
skills/extensions/quaere-naming/SKILL.md · 151 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 151 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Naming Probe

Iron Law

No name reaches the user without three things named: the metaphor it compresses (its origin story), a tool-verified availability status (real whois / curl / npm / WebSearch checks, never recalled from memory), and the anti-pattern gate it survived. A name that is only a nice-sounding word with none of the three is slop, not a candidate — do not present it.

This is not a branding ritual. Asked to name something, a model regresses toward the mean of its training distribution and emits plausible-sounding -ly / -ify slop, thesaurus synonyms, and empty compounds (Smart-, Cloud-, -Hub) that sound finished but carry no metaphor and were never checked for availability. The gate changes the question from does this sound like a product name to which concrete image does it compress, and is it actually free to use. Presenting names from memory is the failure this skill exists to stop — an unavailable name shipped as available is worse than no name. Full method: references/metaphor.md and references/availability.md.

Stop now — do not present any name you have not run a real availability check on (competitor search + platform commands); memory is not evidence. If fewer than 3 candidates survive the gate, loop back and generate more — do not lower the bar. Full conditions: ## Stop condition.

When to use

  • The user needs to name a product, SaaS, brand, library, open source project, CLI, bot, or app.
  • The user wants to rename something, find a brand name, or escape generic / AI-slop names.
  • A name must work across platforms: domain, npm, PyPI, GitHub, app store, or social handles.

When NOT to use

  • Naming code symbols, variables, functions, or files inside a codebase — use quaere-semantic / quaere-execution, not brand naming.
  • The name is already chosen and only needs a multi-platform availability sweep — run the availability gate (Step 4) directly and skip metaphor exploration.
  • A single authoritative claim about one name (one registry, trademark status) — use quaere-grounding.

Read the full file on GitHub · 151 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files 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. 9d ago First seen · 151 lines · 178 tokens per session scan A 291f42a34012

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quaere-naming is a skill published in the GitHub repository haru0416-dev/quaere (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 178 tokens to every session and 2,538 once invoked, about $0.0009 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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