ubiquitous-language

ubiquitous-language is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OutlineDriven/odin-codex-plugin. It costs 59 tokens per session (742 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A glossary-building guide for agreeing on the words a team uses for important concepts. It finds domain terms in a conversation, resolves competing names, and records the chosen vocabulary.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or refine a project glossary, flag ambiguous terms, check naming against an existing codebase, and save the agreed terms for later work.
Why use it?
It reduces confusion when different people use different words for the same idea or use one word in several ways.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to create or refine a project glossary, flag ambiguous terms, check naming against an existing codebase, and save the agreed terms for later work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/outlinedriven/odin-codex-plugin/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 OutlineDriven/odin-codex-plugin --skill ubiquitous-language
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OutlineDriven/odin-codex-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 742 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 $0.00059 $0.00742
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00371
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00148
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00074

Measured 4d ago against content hash 51d989c217e6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, 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 4d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/ubiquitous-language/SKILL.md · 41 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 41 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Mine the live conversation for domain-relevant nouns, verbs, and concepts; resolve synonyms and overloaded terms into a canonical, opinionated glossary. Persist the result to UBIQUITOUS_LANGUAGE.md so subsequent sessions inherit the same vocabulary. Re-invocation refines the file in place rather than overwriting.

When a candidate term collides with usage already present in the codebase, dispatch an Explore agent (fd-first discovery, git grep/ast-grep content search) to confirm the dominant naming before recommending a winner. The user supplies domain intent; the codebase supplies factual usage.

Modality vs adjacent skills: This skill extracts glossary from raw conversation when no documented domain language exists yet. Domain-model grilling grills a plan against an already-documented CONTEXT.md/ADRs. Pick ubiquitous-language when you are creating the artifact; pick the grilling workflow when you are stress-testing one. The two compose: build the glossary here, then promote stable terms into CONTEXT.md and let the grilling workflow defend it thereafter.

Process

  1. Scan the dialogue for domain-relevant nouns, verbs, and concepts. Skip generic programming nouns (array, function, endpoint) unless they carry domain weight.
  2. Identify three failure modes: same word for different concepts (ambiguity), different words for the same concept (synonyms), vague or overloaded terms.
  3. Propose canonical terms with explicit aliases-to-avoid. Be opinionated — pick one winner per concept and justify briefly.
  4. Persist UBIQUITOUS_LANGUAGE.md to the working directory using the format in references/UBIQUITOUS-LANGUAGE-FORMAT.md.
  5. Emit a short inline summary of additions, renames, and flagged ambiguities so the user can react in-thread.

Rules

  • One sentence per definition. Define what the term is, not what it does.
  • Group terms into multiple tables when natural clusters exist (subdomain, lifecycle, actor). Force no grouping when a single cohesive table reads cleanly.
  • Express relationships with bold term names and explicit cardinality where obvious (exactly one, one or more, optional).
  • Flagged ambiguities require a recommendation, not a question. The skill resolves; the user overrides.
  • Treat module and class identifiers as glossary candidates only when they carry domain meaning. Prefer abstract domain terms over implementation aliases.
  • Include an example dialogue (3–5 exchanges) demonstrating the terms used precisely. The dialogue clarifies boundaries between adjacent concepts.

Read the full file on GitHub · 41 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. 4d ago First seen · 41 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A 51d989c217e6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ubiquitous-language is a skill published in the GitHub repository OutlineDriven/odin-codex-plugin (15 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 742 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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