naming-precision

naming-precision is a skill for Claude Code from oborchers/fractional-cto. It costs 63 tokens per session (2,542 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A naming guide for choosing precise names for variables, functions, classes, files, and other identifiers. It discourages vague names such as data, temp, or result when a more specific description is available.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps rename identifiers according to their actual contents, purpose, or role in the program.
Why use it?
Unclear names force readers to inspect the implementation to discover what something contains or does. Precise names make code easier to understand and reduce mix-ups between similar values.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the pedantic-coder plugin — 16 skills, 3 commands, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit It helps rename identifiers according to their actual contents, purpose, or role in the program.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/oborchers/fractional-cto/naming-precision
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 oborchers/fractional-cto --skill naming-precision
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oborchers/fractional-cto

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pedantic-coder, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 3 commands, 1 agent.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,542 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.
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 $0.00063 $0.02542
Opus 5.5 $0.00025 $0.01017
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00508
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00254

Measured 5d ago against content hash 19e9e187c132, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

naming-precision 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 5d 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.

pedantic-coder/skills/naming-precision/SKILL.md · 220 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 220 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

A Name Must Be the Most Precise Word Available

If a reader has to look at the implementation to understand what a variable holds, the name has failed. A precise name eliminates the need for comments, reduces cognitive load during reviews, and prevents an entire category of bugs where the wrong variable is used because two names were too similar or too vague. This is not about taste. This is about whether your code communicates or obfuscates.

Banned Names

The following names are prohibited in any scope wider than a single expression. They tell the reader nothing. They are placeholders left behind by someone who did not finish thinking.

Banned Why What to Use Instead
data Everything is data userProfiles, invoiceLineItems, sensorReadings
info Synonym for data, equally useless accountDetails, shippingAddress, errorContext
temp What is temporary about it? unsavedDraft, pendingUpload, swapBuffer
result Result of what? validationErrors, searchMatches, parsedConfig
value Value of what? discountPercent, temperatureCelsius, pixelWidth
item Item in what collection? cartProduct, logEntry, notificationPayload
thing Not a word that belongs in code Name the actual concept
handle Verb pretending to be a noun fileDescriptor, connectionSocket, eventCallback
process What does it process? How? validatePayment, compressImage, routeIncomingRequest
manager Manages what? How? connectionPool, cacheEvictor, taskScheduler
helper Helping with what? Name the actual operation: formatCurrency, retryWithBackoff
utils Junk drawer Split into specific modules: dateFormatting, stringValidation
misc Admission of organizational failure Categorize properly or inline the code

Zero tolerance. If you see any of these names in a review, reject the code. No exceptions. No "but it's obvious from context." Context changes. Names stay.

Read the full file on GitHub · 220 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. 5d ago First seen · 220 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A 19e9e187c132

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naming-precision is a skill published in the GitHub repository oborchers/fractional-cto (32 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 2,542 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-13.

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