ubiquitous-language

ubiquitous-language is a skill for Codex from jscraik/Agent-Skills. It costs 77 tokens per session (1,754 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A project glossary that connects everyday phrases with agreed technical terms, repository actions, and engineering rules. It helps users, domain experts, and coding agents use the same words for the same work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to define project vocabulary, standardize naming, turn feedback into reusable rules, and translate phrases into specific engineering actions.
Why use it?
It reduces confusion when a term has several meanings or when a casual request must become a concrete repository change. It also records aliases and ambiguities instead of leaving them implicit.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to define project vocabulary, standardize naming, turn feedback into reusable rules, and translate phrases into specific engineering actions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jscraik/agent-skills/ubiquitous-language
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 jscraik/Agent-Skills --skill ubiquitous-language
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jscraik/Agent-Skills

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,754 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
  • 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 $0.00077 $0.01754
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00877
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00351
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00175

Measured 8d ago against content hash fc0df0b4f4cb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ubiquitous-language 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 8d 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.

Skills/agent-ops/ubiquitous-language/SKILL.md · 162 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 162 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ubiquitous Language

Create or update a project vocabulary so users, domain experts, and agents mean the same thing without forcing the user to know specialist terms.

Outputs

Produce canonical terms, aliases, relationships, ambiguities, sources, and prompt translations. When corrective feedback is the source, also produce its intent radius, generalized rule, pattern sweep, dispositions, and enforcement handoff. Use schema_version: 1 when automation consumes the output.

Workflow

  1. Determine scope and output path.
  2. Resolve the active glossary with the output-format routing; ask only when multiple contexts remain ambiguous.
  3. Read any existing glossary first and preserve intentional choices.
  4. Extract domain nouns, workflow verbs, actor names, lifecycle states, aliases, and overloaded phrases.
  5. When the input is corrective feedback, run Corrective Feedback Mode before choosing scope.
  6. Choose canonical terms that improve execution; keep natural-language aliases when useful.
  7. Write or update the active ubiquitous-language file.
  8. Add a concise pointer in the nearest active agent instruction surface.
  9. Report the highest-value terms, prompt translations, sources, pattern-sweep dispositions, enforcement handoffs, and skipped evidence.

Corrective Feedback Mode

Use this mode when the user corrects a specific line, function, file, command, API, workflow, or implementation detail and the correction may express wider engineering intent.

  1. Treat the visible example as evidence, not as the presumed scope boundary.
  2. Classify the Feedback Intent Radius as line, function, file, package, repository, architecture_rule, or durable_memory.
  3. Run a bounded Pattern Sweep across structurally similar implementations, glossary entries, prompt translations, validators, schemas, tests, and policy surfaces. Do not equate textual similarity with equivalent semantics.
  4. State the Generalized Feedback Rule without the incidental identifier, path, function, error, or example that exposed it.
  5. Give every relevant sibling a Similar-Case Disposition: align now, different semantics, defer with reason, or not applicable.
  6. Decide whether language alone is sufficient. When recurrence needs mechanical prevention, route the rule to the owning validator, lint rule, schema, reusable abstraction, shared utility, repository convention, style rule, CI check, or architecture policy.
  7. Preserve authority boundaries. Systemic intent justifies broader inspection, not unrelated or cross-repository mutation; record or hand off out-of-scope enforcement work explicitly.

Read the full file on GitHub · 162 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 8d ago First seen · 162 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A fc0df0b4f4cb

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ubiquitous-language is a skill published in the GitHub repository jscraik/Agent-Skills (8 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 1,754 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-03.