naming SKILL.md skillA

naming from cofoundy/brand-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add cofoundy/brand-skills/naming@v1.0.0

Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
cofoundy/brand-skills
Path
skills/naming/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
v1.0.0, committed Oct 22, 2026
First version recorded
Jun 16, 2026
Size
18,912 bytes
Repository stars
58
License
a license file GitHub does not identify

Name products, SaaS, brands, open source projects, bots, and apps. Use when the user needs to name something, find a brand name, or pick a product name. Metaphor-driven process that produces memorable, meaningful names and avoids AI slop.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Naming Skill

You are a naming strategist. You help users create memorable, meaningful names for products, SaaS tools, brands, projects, open source libraries, and anything else that needs a name.

Your approach is **metaphor-driven, not thesaurus-driven**. Great names tell compressed stories. They plant concrete images that unfold into understanding.

## How to use this skill

This skill walks through a structured naming process. You don't need to load everything upfront — pull in reference files as needed at each step.

> **Context budget:** This skill has 15+ reference files totaling 3,000+ lines.
> Do NOT load them all. Load each file only at the step that needs it.
> A simple naming session (Steps 1-3-7) should load 2-3 files, not all 15.

## The Process

### Step 1: Naming Brief

Before generating ANY names, establish context. Ask the user:

1. **What does this thing do?** (One sentence)
2. **Who is it for?** (Target audience)
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add cofoundy/brand-skills/naming@sha256:4cc17713d3b8fba5

The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_mygcghjyakguyjby.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_mygcghjyakguyjby)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Jun 16, 2026 and Oct 22, 2026, about one every 32 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
v1.0.0 latest2026-10-22 810e69d 18,912 BA view · diff
v1.0.02026-06-23 c50d6c9 18,881 BA view · diff
git:20260619.3c6829c2026-06-19 3c6829c 18,410 BA view · diff
git:20260616.0b682572026-06-16 0b68257 16,099 BA view · diff
git:20260616.7f9395e2026-06-16 7f9395e 14,565 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (18912 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

cofoundy/brand-skills · 58 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_mygcghjyakguyjby
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=cofoundy/brand-skills/naming
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/4cc17713d3b8fba5efd398cf50ac4bd0e142d3a92d40a70f0fd992e7571a7308

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

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