glossary

A repository glossary that finds exact definitions for terms and acronyms in a project's own authoritative files. It returns the original wording with the source file, line number, and content hash, or reports that no definition was found.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to look up project terminology, verify where a definition came from, and link a term directly to its source.
Why use it?
It avoids guessed or rewritten definitions and makes each answer traceable to the project's documentation. Repeated lookups can reuse unchanged source files.

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/hellothisworld/open-mind/glossary
Any agent
npx skills add HelloThisWorld/open-mind --skill glossary
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HelloThisWorld/open-mind

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 585 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 $0.00585
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00293
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00117
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00059

Measured yesterday against content hash 62043a14b914, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

glossary 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.

skills/glossary/SKILL.md · 44 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 44 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Glossary — deterministic, source-traceable term index

What it does

Scans a repository's authoritative sources (a dedicated GLOSSARY/acronym file, a definition table or TERM: … line, a README/docs sentence, a doc-comment) and builds a persisted map: term → {definition (verbatim), source_file, line_number, content_hash, source_kind}. A lookup resolves a term by exact token (no similarity, no paraphrase) and returns the original text with a jump-to-source link, or found: false for an absent term.

Determinism & anti-fabrication contract

  • The definition is the exact original text lifted from the source — never reworded, summarized, or model-generated.
  • Provenance is mandatory: source_file:line_number + a content_hash of the source.
  • An unknown term returns {found: false, message: "no authoritative definition found …"}. It is never guessed.
  • Incremental + idempotent: a per-file content hash means an unchanged source is reused, not re-parsed; same input → same output.

Grounded usage profile (value density)

On a single-term hit the entry carries a usage profile derived from the structure map (openmind.structure.term_usage), all traceable to real code:

  • defined_at — definition site(s) file:line:kind when the term is also a code symbol;
  • used_in / use_count — every file that references the symbol;
  • modules — the modules the term spans;
  • related_terms — other glossary terms co-located in the same files. For a pure concept/acronym (not a code symbol) the code lists are honestly empty; the module and related terms still ground it.

Invocation

  • MCP tool: get_glossary(scope, term=None) — with term, the resolved entry; without, the full term list.
  • REST: GET /glossary?scope=<project>&term=<term> (the entry, with usage).
  • Jump to source: GET /source?scope=&file=&line= (allow-listed to indexed sources).

Implementation / tests

openmind/glossary.py (extraction + lookup), openmind/structure.py::term_usage (usage profile). Acceptance: tests/verify_glossary.py.

Read the full file on GitHub · 44 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 · 44 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 62043a14b914

Subscribe to this mod's changes

glossary is a skill published in the GitHub repository HelloThisWorld/open-mind (1 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 585 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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