name-it-better

name-it-better is a skill for Claude Code from melodic-software/claude-code-plugins. It costs 150 tokens per session (3,270 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A naming assistant for identifiers and other project terms. It creates and scores name candidates, then leaves the final choice to a person.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to name variables, functions, files, modules, skills, repositories, or domain concepts.
Why use it?
It helps when a name is unclear, has been rejected, or may not fit the project's conventions. Fresh candidate generation reduces attachment to the current name.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the naming plugin — 1 skill shipped together

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/melodic-software/claude-code-plugins/name-it-better
Any agent
npx skills add melodic-software/claude-code-plugins --skill name-it-better
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/melodic-software/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install naming, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for name-it-better

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 150 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,270 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 5.1 $0.00150 $0.03270
Opus 5 $0.00075 $0.01635
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00654
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00327

Measured today against content hash 36e57850ae7a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

name-it-better 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 today.

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.

plugins/naming/skills/name-it-better/SKILL.md · 260 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 260 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Name it better

Purpose

Produce better name candidates for anything that needs one: an identifier, file, module, skill, repo, or domain term. Then hand the human a scored shortlist to choose from. The dominant trigger is a reactive retry: a name was just suggested and rejected, and the same context that produced it will only produce more of the same. So the generators run BLIND to the conversation, from distinct lenses, to break the anchor. A blank-slate naming request is the same machinery without a rejected incumbent.

The human always picks. This skill narrows and recommends; it never auto-locks a name.

Criteria. Cite the source of truth, do not copy it

Score against the consuming organization's naming criteria, resolved from its own context, never from a baked-in path:

  1. Declared conventions win. When the consuming project names where its naming and domain-language conventions live, its CLAUDE.md, .claude/rules/, or a shared standards source it points to, score against THAT. Read the criteria there; do not restate them here. A criterion the user wants that is missing from those conventions flows UP into them (their standards change), not hardcoded into this skill.
  2. None declared → the general criteria grounded in context/sources.md, applied in this research-ordered priority. A higher tier breaks ties over every tier below it:
    1. Semantic accuracy (anti-misleading). The name must not lie about what the thing does. A misleading name is empirically worse than a vague or meaningless one, so this outranks everything below.
    2. Scope fit. Length and detail scale with the thing's scope and lifetime; never repeat information the surrounding context (package, type, module) already supplies.
    3. Comprehensibility. Prefer full, intention-revealing words over abbreviations, bounded: established idioms and conventionally short names (loop i, a receiver) are not penalised.
    4. Trigger / evocative utility. How well the name cues recall at the moment of use. That is a genuine tiebreaker, but the lowest-priority one.

Read the full file on GitHub · 260 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. today Changed · -1 lines · -3 tokens per session 36e57850ae7a
  2. 2d ago First seen · 261 lines · 153 tokens per session scan A 77543dbf44ca

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name-it-better is a skill published in the GitHub repository melodic-software/claude-code-plugins (15 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 150 tokens to every session and 3,270 once invoked, about $0.0007 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.

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