glossary

A guide for managing technical and business terms in project documents. A glossary defines important terms once so requirements, designs, tasks, and other documents use them consistently.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing or reviewing specifications, requirements, architecture decisions, tasks, glossary entries, or other documents with repeated technical terms.
Why use it?
It helps prevent ambiguous wording and conflicting definitions across project materials. It also provides a process for deciding whether a new term is really needed.

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/intent-driven-dev/intent-driven-template/glossary
Any agent
npx skills add intent-driven-dev/intent-driven-template --skill glossary
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/intent-driven-dev/intent-driven-template

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 687 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 $0.00036 $0.00687
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00344
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00137
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00069

Measured 2d ago against content hash fc27a5bef15a, 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 2d 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.

.agents/skills/glossary/SKILL.md · 89 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 89 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Glossary

Use existing repository terms before creating new ones.

Workflow

  1. Identify the artifact being authored or reviewed.
  2. Read glossary/business.md and/or glossary/technical.md when present.
  3. Extract project-specific, technical, overloaded, ambiguous, or repeated concepts.
  4. Compare extracted concepts with existing glossary terms.
  5. If existing terms look close, ask the user whether to reuse one or define a new term.
  6. Use the chosen term consistently in the artifact.
  7. Add new terms to the appropriate glossary file.
  8. For non-glossary artifacts, create or update the artifact's companion glossary reference document.

Do not add generic dictionary words or one-off implementation details.

Glossary Files

  • glossary/business.md: domain, product, workflow, and business terms.
  • glossary/technical.md: architecture, implementation, platform, and protocol terms.

If a needed glossary file is missing, create it with this table:

| Term | Definition | Use When | Avoid |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |

New entries use the same table format. Keep definitions to one concise sentence.

Close-Term Question

Ask before creating a new term when existing terms may fit:

These glossary terms look close to "<concept>":

- `<existing-term>`: <why it may fit>
- `<another-term>`: <why it may fit>

Do you want to use one of these existing terms, or define a new term?

Do not proceed with a new term until the user answers, unless no plausible existing term exists.

Marking Terms in Artifacts

In non-glossary artifacts, such as proposals, designs, specs, ADRs, and tasks, bold glossary terms that appear in the artifact's companion glossary reference.

Apply bolding in prose only. Do not bold terms in code blocks, frontmatter, links, or places where markdown formatting would make the artifact harder to read.

Companion Reference

Every authored or edited non-glossary artifact gets a companion file in the same directory.

Do not create companion glossary reference files for glossary source files themselves, such as glossary/business.md or glossary/technical.md.

Read the full file on GitHub · 89 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 2d ago First seen · 89 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A fc27a5bef15a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

glossary is a skill published in the GitHub repository intent-driven-dev/intent-driven-template (121 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 687 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.