brand-naming-strategies

brand-naming-strategies is a skill for Claude Code from mike-coulbourn/claude-vibes. It costs 77 tokens per session (2,199 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for choosing names for brands, companies, or products, with evaluation frameworks and naming templates.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during naming work, including creating candidates, evaluating names, checking domains, and researching trademarks.
Why use it?
It gives a structured way to compare name ideas and check practical concerns such as domains and trademarks.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the claude-vibes plugin — 24 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it during naming work, including creating candidates, evaluating names, checking domains, and researching trademarks.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mike-coulbourn/claude-vibes/brand-naming-strategies
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 mike-coulbourn/claude-vibes --skill brand-naming-strategies
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mike-coulbourn/claude-vibes

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-vibes, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 24 skills.

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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 2,199 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
  • Socket pass 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk pass 15 Feb 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 $0.02199
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.01099
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00440
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00220

Measured 12d ago against content hash 7518ab6e4c87, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

brand-naming-strategies 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 12d 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.

plugins/vibes/skills/brand-naming-strategies/SKILL.md · 251 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 251 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Brand Naming Strategies

Quick reference for strategic brand naming using expert methodologies from Lexicon, Eat My Words, Catchword, and Igor.

"A name should make you smile instead of scratch your head. If it makes you scratch your head, scratch it off the list." — Alexandra Watkins


Key Statistics

  • 2.5x increase in company value after Emode renamed to Tickle (4 months)
  • 30% traffic increase from name change alone
  • 2 syllables = optimal for memorability
  • 1,000-3,000 candidates needed before finding gems (Lexicon)

The SMILE & SCRATCH Framework (Alexandra Watkins)

SMILE — 5 Qualities of a Great Name

Letter Quality Description Example
S Suggestive Evokes something about your brand Amazon suggests vastness
M Memorable Makes an association with the familiar Apple connects to something everyone knows
I Imagery Aids memory through evocative visuals Jaguar creates immediate mental picture
L Legs Lends itself to extended wordplay and branding Nike allows "Just Do It" mythology
E Emotional Moves people Patagonia evokes adventure

"Legs" Explained: A name should provide "a theme with mileage you can build a brand around."

SCRATCH — 7 Deal Breakers

Letter Deal Breaker Red Flag
S Spelling Challenged Looks like a typo
C Copycat Sounds like existing brand
R Restrictive Limits future growth (Boston Market)
A Annoying Forced, excessive wordplay
T Tame Flat, descriptive, uninspired
C Curse of Knowledge Speaks only to insiders
H Hard to Pronounce If people avoid saying it, they avoid you

Sound Symbolism Quick Guide (Lexicon/Placek)

Sound Psychological Impact Example Names
V Vibrant, alive Corvette, Vercel, Viagra
B Reliable, solid BlackBerry
Z Attention-getting Azure, Zara
X Innovative Xerox, SpaceX
Plosives (b, c, k, p) Memorable Coca-Cola, Kodak
Soft sounds (l, m, n) Approachable Lululemon, Amazon

Read the full file on GitHub · 251 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. 12d ago First seen · 251 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A 7518ab6e4c87

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brand-naming-strategies is a skill published in the GitHub repository mike-coulbourn/claude-vibes (39 stars, last pushed 8mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 2,199 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 2026-08-31.

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