naming-as-design

naming-as-design is a skill for Claude Code from pyros-projects/limitless. It costs 105 tokens per session (712 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A vocabulary-audit guide for products, workflows, and systems. It treats names as part of how the product is structured and understood.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inventory important terms, find overlaps and missing distinctions, and recommend a clearer shared vocabulary.
Why use it?
It helps when one concept has several names, or one name is used for different concepts. This reduces confusion across the interface, documentation, APIs, and team discussions.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the after-hours plugin — 7 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to inventory important terms, find overlaps and missing distinctions, and recommend a clearer shared vocabulary.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pyros-projects/limitless/naming-as-design
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 pyros-projects/limitless --skill naming-as-design
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pyros-projects/limitless

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install after-hours, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 105 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 712 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 $0.00105 $0.00712
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.00356
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00142
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00071

Measured 7d ago against content hash 0b8956a16e2e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

naming-as-design 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 7d 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/after-hours/skills/naming-as-design/SKILL.md · 89 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 89 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Naming as Design

Overview

This skill treats naming as structural design, not editorial polish.

The names a product uses are the user's ontology. If the nouns drift, the mental model drifts with them. This skill helps clean up that conceptual layer before confusion becomes normal.

When to Use

Use this when:

  • the same concept is called different things in different places
  • new features are creating noun sprawl
  • the product feels harder to explain than it should
  • an API, UI, and docs seem to describe different worlds

Do not use this for tiny wording tweaks that have no model-level consequence.

What to Produce

Map the current conceptual language:

  • core nouns
  • overlaps and collisions
  • missing distinctions
  • terms that sound similar but mean different things
  • places where renaming would clarify the model

Then recommend a cleaner vocabulary and explain what changes in the user's understanding if the rename is adopted.

Working Loop

  1. Inventory the nouns. Pull the important terms from the UI, docs, APIs, settings, and conversation around the product.

  2. Map the collisions. Where are multiple names pointing at one concept? Where is one name carrying too many meanings?

  3. Find the real model. Decide what conceptual world the product is actually trying to create for the user.

  4. Rename toward clarity. Recommend the vocabulary that makes the model feel singular, legible, and easier to think with.

Suggested Output Shape

  • Current concept map
  • Conflicts and collisions
  • What mental model the current language creates
  • Recommended vocabulary
  • What becomes easier to understand after renaming

Tiny Example

  • Current concept map: The UI says Workspace, the API says Project, and the docs say Environment.
  • Conflicts and collisions: Three names are pointing at the same thing.
  • What mental model the current language creates: The product feels like it has three overlapping containers.
  • Recommended vocabulary: Use Workspace everywhere.
  • What becomes easier to understand after renaming: Users can form one stable picture of where their work lives.

Read the full file on GitHub · 89 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. 7d ago First seen · 89 lines · 105 tokens per session scan A 0b8956a16e2e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

naming-as-design is a skill published in the GitHub repository pyros-projects/limitless (9 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 105 tokens to every session and 712 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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