glossary

glossary is a skill for Claude Code from whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills. It costs 73 tokens per session (2,275 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A plain-language glossary for common software-development terms, including APIs, databases, frontends, and backends. An API is a way for software systems to communicate; a database stores application information.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to look up unfamiliar developer concepts and translate technical terms into explanations suitable for someone new to software development.
Why use it?
It gives newcomers understandable definitions when technical language makes a coding task or project description difficult to follow.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Part of the solo-founder-skills plugin — 54 skills, 1 command shipped together

Good fit Use it to look up unfamiliar developer concepts and translate technical terms into explanations suitable for someone new to software development.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills/glossary
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 whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills --skill glossary
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install solo-founder-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 54 skills, 1 command.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for glossary

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,275 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
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 109
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
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 $0.00073 $0.02275
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.01137
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00455
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00228

Measured 13d ago against content hash 3b0500ca0abb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

glossary 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 13d 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/glossary/SKILL.md · 184 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 184 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Technical Glossary

Plain-English definitions for every technical term you'll encounter while building your SaaS. No jargon. No condescension.


The Basics

API (Application Programming Interface) A way for two pieces of software to talk to each other. When your app gets weather data from a weather service, it's using an API. When you connect Stripe for payments, you're using Stripe's API. Think of it as a menu at a restaurant — it tells you what you can order (request) and what you'll get back (response).

Database Where your app stores information. Users, their data, settings — everything lives in a database. Think of it as a collection of spreadsheets that your app can read and write to. The most common type for SaaS is PostgreSQL (often shortened to "Postgres").

Frontend The part of your app that users see and interact with — buttons, pages, forms, menus. Built with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. When someone says "React app" or "Next.js app," they're talking about frontend frameworks.

Backend The part of your app that users don't see — the logic, data processing, and database connections that happen on a server. When a user clicks "Save," the frontend sends the data to the backend, which stores it in the database.

Server A computer that runs your app and responds to requests from users. When someone visits your website, their browser sends a request to your server, which sends back the page. Modern hosting (Vercel, Railway, etc.) manages servers for you — you don't need to set one up.

Framework A pre-built structure for building software, so you don't start from scratch. Like using a house kit instead of cutting every board yourself. Common ones: React (frontend), Next.js (full app), Django (Python backend), Express (Node.js backend).


Building & Deploying

Repository (Repo) A folder for your project's code, tracked by Git (version control). Think of it as a Google Doc with infinite undo and version history. Usually hosted on GitHub.

Read the full file on GitHub · 184 lines

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. 13d ago First seen · 184 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A 3b0500ca0abb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

glossary is a skill published in the GitHub repository whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills (243 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 2,275 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 2026-08-30.

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