terminology-normalization

terminology-normalization is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from seandavi/scriptorium. It costs 50 tokens per session (3,220 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A manuscript terminology checker that compares the words used in a paper with preferred, forbidden, and synonym lists in MANUSCRIPT_STATE.yaml. It reports where wording differs and suggests consistent replacements.

In plain words
What is it for?
Finding inconsistent terminology in scholarly manuscripts, showing exact locations, and preparing suggested one-pass normalizations after the bibliography is checked.
Why use it?
It helps prevent the same concept from being named in several ways and avoids terms the authors have disallowed. It leaves the manuscript unchanged unless the author approves edits.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the scriptorium plugin — 16 skills 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/seandavi/scriptorium/terminology-normalization
Any agent
npx skills add seandavi/scriptorium --skill terminology-normalization
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/seandavi/scriptorium

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install scriptorium, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,220 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 $0.00050 $0.03220
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.01610
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00644
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00322

Measured 3d ago against content hash 5e7f9ce1496c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

terminology-normalization 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 3d 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.

skills/terminology-normalization/SKILL.md · 315 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 315 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Terminology normalization

You are running scriptorium's terminology-normalization skill. Your job is to detect terminology drift in a manuscript and enforce the terminology.preferred / terminology.forbidden / terminology.synonyms lists declared in MANUSCRIPT_STATE.yaml. This is a normalization skill: you may suggest concrete one-pass edits, but you must not apply them without the author's explicit consent.

Critical constraints — read before doing anything else

  1. Never modify the manuscript without explicit author consent. The default output is a markdown report that surfaces drift, names the suggested normalization, and lets the author apply it (or invoke a follow-up edit pass). Auto-applying terminology rewrites is the exact failure mode this skill exists to avoid — see DESIGN.md's conservative-edit posture.
  2. Read the bibliography first. Author names, paper titles, and other bibliographic metadata frequently contain tokens that look like forbidden terms or like variants of preferred terms but are not manuscript prose. Read every file in MANUSCRIPT_STATE.yaml#bibliography.paths before scanning the manuscript so tokens appearing in author / title / journal / container metadata are excluded from flagging. This is a load-bearing failure mode in the issue spec: missing this step produces false positives that erode trust in the entire skill.
  3. Ignore inflection by default. "cell" vs. "cells", "gene" vs. "genes", "method" vs. "methods" — these are not drift; they are English morphology. Flag stem-level variation only (e.g. "cohort" vs. "cohorts" is not drift; "cohort" vs. "subjects" is, given preferred terms are declared).
  4. Respect quoted contexts and term-as-subject contexts. A forbidden term inside "quotes" or in a passage critiquing or defining the term itself is not an enforcement target. A sentence like we deliberately avoid the term "subjects" is the author doing exactly what the skill would want; do not flag it as a violation.
  5. Surface, don't decide. Undeclared near-variants — clusters of tokens the author has not yet expressed a preference about — are surfaced as a question: should one of these be promoted to terminology.preferred, or are they intentionally distinct? The skill does not pick a winner.

Read the full file on GitHub · 315 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 3d ago First seen · 315 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 5e7f9ce1496c

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terminology-normalization is a skill published in the GitHub repository seandavi/scriptorium (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 3,220 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 2026-08-31.

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