naming-is-hard

naming-is-hard is a skill for Claude Code from jongio/skills. It costs 227 tokens per session (6,040 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An interactive assistant for choosing a usable name for a project, product, company, repository, package, or feature. It generates candidates, learns from your preferences, and checks finalists for availability and possible name conflicts.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to name a new CLI, app, open-source library, npm or PyPI package, GitHub organization or repository, startup, or feature.
Why use it?
A name can sound good but already be unavailable or confusingly similar to another name. This process helps narrow ideas and check them before you commit.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the jongio-skills plugin — 10 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to name a new CLI, app, open-source library, npm or PyPI package, GitHub organization or repository, startup, or feature.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jongio/skills/naming-is-hard
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 jongio/skills --skill naming-is-hard
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jongio/skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install jongio-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 227 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,040 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. Third-party audits
  • 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 $0.00227 $0.06040
Opus 5 $0.00113 $0.03020
Sonnet 5 $0.00045 $0.01208
Haiku 4.5 $0.00023 $0.00604

Measured 8d ago against content hash 1347bbb079b8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

naming-is-hard 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 8d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 20 executable files (scripts/availability.mjs, scripts/features.mjs, scripts/marks.mjs, …), 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.

**Never** hand-roll availability checks with raw `curl`, and never invent a swipe
skills/naming-is-hard/SKILL.md · 426 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 426 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

naming-is-hard

An interactive naming assistant for projects, CLIs, products, packages, and organizations. It guides you from a blank slate to a validated name you can actually ship.

The core insight: you rarely know what name you want until you see candidates and react to them. This skill generates diverse on-brief names, learns your preferences as you rank them, then validates your finalists against real-world availability (domains, GitHub, npm/PyPI, social handles) and flags trademark or confusable-name collisions before you commit.

When to use it

Reach for this whenever a name needs to be chosen and checked: a new project, product, startup, open-source library, npm/PyPI package, GitHub org or repo, app, or feature. It is equally good at "brainstorm names for X" and "is "Foo" already taken everywhere?".

Do not use it to rename variables or functions in code (that is ordinary editing), or for SEO keyword research.

On invocation

When the user invokes this skill (e.g. /naming-is-hard), start the naming flow immediately. Do not ask "What can I help you with?" or wait passively.

  • If the user provided context alongside the invocation (e.g. "name my CLI tool that does X"), proceed directly to Act 1 (the Profile) using that context.
  • If the user invoked the skill bare with no context, look at the current working directory for a README, package.json, or other project files. If you find a project, ask one focused question: "I see you're working on [project]. Would you like to name this, or something else?" Then proceed to Act 1.
  • If there's no project context at all, ask a single question to get started: "What are we naming? Tell me what it is and I'll kick off the process."

The skill exists to DO naming, not to explain itself. Get moving.

How it works: five acts

  1. The Profile. Read the user's context (a description, a repo path, or a URL) and write a Naming Brief: what the thing is and will be, who it is for, the tone, and any constraints. This anchors all candidate generation.
  2. The Deck. Generate a diverse, on-brief pool of candidate names across many naming strategies. Each candidate is tagged so the model can learn from it.
  3. The Swipe. Show one card at a time. The user swipes Like / Pass / Super-like. A preference model learns their taste and biases the next cards toward it, with enough exploration that it does not tunnel. It can state "your type" in words.
  4. The Match. For the names the user liked, run a deep availability scan and a trademark/existing-business screen, roll each up into a verdict tier, and present the ranked matches with a compatibility scorecard and a winner.
  5. Next actions. Hand the user the links to grab the GitHub org, register the domain, and claim the handles.

Read the full file on GitHub · 426 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. 8d ago First seen · 426 lines · 227 tokens per session scan A 1347bbb079b8

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naming-is-hard is a skill published in the GitHub repository jongio/skills (16 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 227 tokens to every session and 6,040 once invoked, about $0.0011 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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