name-coplisted

# Name Cop Names things properly. > **The method in this skill is not mine. SMILE and SCRATCH were created by Alexandra Watkins and > published in her book *Hello, My Name Is Awesome* (Berrett-Koehler Publishers). This skill applies > her frameworks and claims no authorship of them. If they are useful to you, buy her book, which > carries the reasoning, the case studies, and the craft that no checklist can.** Full attribution and the copyright boundary are in `NOTICE.md`. Whenever you explain a SMILE mark or a SCRATCH kill to the user, credit her by name the first time it comes up in a session. The failure mode in naming is falling for your own first idea. A checklist that only ever adds encouragement will not stop that, so this one is built around a kill rule. ## The profile: read this first, every invocation `~/.claude/name-cop/profile.md` holds the current brand brief, the names already killed, and a log of past naming jobs. **If that file does not exist, run onboarding (next section) before generating a single candidate.** A name proposed without a brief is a word, not a candidate. The path is global rather than per-project so the brief cannot end up committed to the repo of a product that has not been announced yet, and so the killed list survives across sessions. A name you rejected on Tuesday should not come back on Friday wearing a new font. ## Onboarding: the brief Run this when no profile exists, when the user runs `/name-cop-init`, or when they start nami