Status: Accepted Date: 2026-05-18

Skills need names that are memorable, discoverable by agents scanning a directory, and unambiguous when grep’d. Early naming (single nouns like tdd, review) caused collisions and unclear intent.

All skill directories use a two-word verb-noun kebab-case pair (e.g., develop-tdd, audit-code, plan-work). Exceptions (meta-skills, mode toggles) must be documented in CONVENTIONS.md — they are not silent deviations.

• A global grep for any skill name returns < 5 results (grep-ability mandate, Akita #3).
• Skills self-document their intent: investigate-bug is unambiguous; debug is not.
• Two-word constraint prevents sprawl — a skill that needs three words is probably two skills.
• terse-mode and visual-dashboard are named exceptions (adjective-noun); noted in CONVENTIONS.md.