Callsign

Generate AC6-style codenames for projects and tools

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Overview

Callsign names your projects and the tools around them the way Armored Core VI names its parts. A project gets a frame designation and a 3-letter acronym you can say out loud; a service gets a weapon name from the same manufacturer. Every house keeps its own grammar, and the same words always give the same name.

Live: callsign.neorgon.com

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Features

• Forge -- type what you are naming, pick a slot and a house, and get plates with a designation, a 3-letter acronym and 4-letter variants
• Fifteen game houses -- each in-game manufacturer's naming grammar, from Furlong's BML-G1/P20MLT-04 codes and IBIS-style IB-C03H: HAL 826 plates to entomologists' surnames, haiku poets and German birds
• Seven Callsign originals -- houses of Callsign's own in the same style, not in the game, whose words are real but little-known science that reads like science fiction: JV-R69/H SINOPE (Jupiter's outer moons), UMK-331H WRINKLON (exotic particles), L3-LR013 FISSION SAIL (megastructures and drives), Uto-366H UNTRIOCTIUM (placeholder element names), PE-12SN ARISTOLOCHIA (strange flora), SV-2500H STYGIOMEDUSA (deep sea and extremophiles), PT-LZ159 NASCENT STATE (retired constellations and spent science)
• Lexicon -- every word family the houses draw from, filtered by subject (animals, plants, space, physics...) or language (German, Spanish, Latin, Japanese...), with the sources behind every original family's list and a lookup that says which house and family any word or designation comes from
• Acronyms from your words -- "release automation daemon" gives RAD; type RAD on its own and the houses that carry letters stamp it into their codes
• Garage -- name a whole system as one build: the frame for the project, inner parts for the platform, four weapons for its tools
• Matched frames -- head, core, arms and legs share one line name, the way a game frame does (except Melinite, which names each part on its own), or switch to mixed parts
• Deterministic rolls -- Reroll moves forward, Back moves back, and a share link reopens the exact build
• Export -- a Markdown table for a README, JSON for a script, or plain text for a chat message
• Paste kit -- every plate's Copy menu gives a README badge, a chat line, a wiki line or a link; a build copies its badges as one block
• Command line -- tools/callsign.mjs runs the same engine from a terminal, for scripts and the neorgon-forge callsign skill
• Hangar -- saved builds stay in this browser's local storage, marked when an older grammar made them; opening someone's build link keeps yours here first

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How a name is built

Slot	Names	Answers to
Head	frontend, dashboard, client app	acronym
Core	main API or backend service	acronym
Arms	integrations, SDKs, adapters	acronym
Legs	infrastructure, hosting, runtime	acronym
Booster	CI/CD, deploys, release automation	acronym
FCS	monitoring, alerting, analytics	acronym
Generator	database, queue, event bus	acronym
Expansion	failover, kill switch, backups	acronym
Weapons	one tool or service each (rifle for a general service, missile launcher for a scheduler, pulse shield for auth, pile bunker for a one-shot migration, and so on)	name

A plate is a pure function of what you typed, the house, the slot and the roll number. Houses stamp only a code and a name; acronyms, readings and the callsign are assembled the same way for every house, in js/forge.js.

The word pools are Callsign's own picks from public sources in the same vein as each manufacturer, with every in-game proper name left out. In-game part names appear on the Houses page only as reference examples, and js/canon.js rerolls any plate that lands exactly on a real part's designation (it holds hashes of the 231 designations, not the names). The themes are patterns read off the part names, not statements from the developers. Callsign is an unofficial fan tool, not affiliated with FromSoftware or Bandai Namco Entertainment.

Sources for the grammars: the official AC6 online manual and patch notes 1.05 to 1.07, the Wikidot AC6 wiki's part descriptions, the part data in matteosal/ac6-advanced-garage, and Wikipedia's lists of entomologists and of the Purple Forbidden and Supreme Palace enclosures. The seven original houses cite their own on the Lexicon page: Wikipedia's lists of moons, particles, megastructures, carnivorous plants and former constellations, IUPAC's rules for naming new elements, the World Register of Marine Species and The Parasitic Plant Connection, among others.

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Use it outside the page

• Links -- ?s=<words>&h=<house>&p=<slot>&r=<roll>&g=1#forge opens one plate as the first on the page, ?b=<build>&g=1#garage opens a whole build, and ?fam=<family>&g=1#lexicon opens one word family. The ids, the limits and the payload format are in llms.txt.

• README badges -- GitHub renders no iframe and no script, so the embed is an image: a shields.io static badge that links back to the plate. shields.io draws it from the name in its address, and GitHub fetches it through its image proxy, so a pasted badge sends that name to both.

• What leaves the browser -- names are worked out on the page and nothing is sent while you use it. What you share carries what it names: a link holds your words or the whole build in its address, so opening it sends them to GitHub Pages, which hosts the site, and a chat app that unfurls it fetches the same address.

• Command line -- same engine, same names, no network (Node 22 LTS or later; 20.18 and older cannot load the engine from a plain clone):

  node tools/callsign.mjs forge "billing dashboard" --slot head --count 3 --json
  node tools/callsign.mjs identity "billing platform"
  node tools/callsign.mjs houses
  node tools/callsign.mjs lookup "PE-12SN ARISTOLOCHIA"
  node tools/callsign.mjs families
  make name SEED="release automation daemon" HOUSE=ibis SLOT=booster
  

  Exit 2 means an unknown house, slot or option; nothing is guessed. A description is cut to the 120 characters a link carries, so the plate printed is the plate its link opens. forge --count with no house samples from every house, so the same command can list different houses once new ones are added; each house's own plates never change. Pin --house for a stable pick.

• Claude Code -- the callsign skill in neorgon-forge finds a checkout of this repo, runs the command line and hands back three candidates with their links.

Grammar versions

GRAMMAR in js/forge.js is stamped into every plate, export and link (g=1); a link with no g predates the numbering and counts as grammar 0. tests/golden.test.mjs keeps one digest per house (every slot over inputs that walk each acronym path) and one per word pool, plus the canon hashes and reading banks, and fails when an edit would rename a plate under the same number. A new house or pool is an addition: make golden records it without a bump, which is how the seven originals joined grammar 1. Adding one word to a word pool renames about half of that house's plates, so a pool edit is a version bump: raise GRAMMAR, run make golden, and links made under the old number open with a notice instead of silently different names.

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Running locally

ES modules require an HTTP server (not file://):

make serve    # http://localhost:8886
make test     # engine, links and CLI checks, then the golden plates

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Architecture

callsign-site/
├── index.html            # App shell: Forge, Garage, Houses and Lexicon views
├── css/
│   └── style.css         # Site styles; tokens come from the CDN base.css
├── js/
│   ├── app.js            # Entry point
│   ├── state.js          # Session, hangar, share-link codec
│   ├── forge.js          # seed + house + slot + roll -> plate; garage rows
│   ├── houses.js         # One grammar per manufacturer, and what each draws
│   ├── houses-callsign.js # The seven Callsign originals
│   ├── lexicon.js        # Original word pools per house theme
│   ├── families.js       # Word families: subjects, languages, sources
│   ├── lookup.js         # Which house and family a word or designation is from
│   ├── canon.js          # Hashes of real part designations, to reroll collisions
│   ├── slots.js          # Parts and weapon classes, and what each names
│   ├── acronym.js        # 3 and 4 letter picks from your words or the name
│   ├── expand.js         # Readings for letters that did not come from words
│   ├── rng.js            # Seeded hash + PRNG
│   ├── links.js          # The share-link contract: forge and garage URLs, base64url
│   ├── export.js         # Markdown, JSON, text, README badges, chat and wiki lines
│   ├── templates.js      # Shared HTML fragments
│   ├── render*.js        # One module per view
│   ├── events.js         # User interactions (events-lexicon.js for the Lexicon)
│   └── utils.js          # Copy, download, toast
├── tools/callsign.mjs    # Command line over the same engine; also imported by the skill
├── tests/                # engine.test.mjs, golden.test.mjs + golden.json
├── llms.txt              # The link contract for agents
├── docs/architecture.mmd # Diagram source
├── CNAME
├── Makefile
└── README.md

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