llm-cliche-highlighter: add “worth naming” pattern

[simonw]

New LLM cliche: "‪That loss is real and it's worth naming‬" - tell me what pattern you'll add before you add it

Adds a new cliché pattern to the LLM cliché highlighter: “Worth naming” (id worth-naming) — the therapist-voiced validation move, as in “That loss is real and it’s worth naming.”

/(?:\b(?:is|are|was|were|feels?|felt|seems?|seemed)|['’]s)\s+(?:\w+\s+){0,2}?worth\s+naming\b(?!\s+names\b)|\bworth\s+naming\s*:/gi

Details:

• Anchors on a linking verb (is/are/was/were/feels/seems/'s) plus up to two filler words before “worth naming”, so “it’s worth naming”, “is real and worth naming”, “the grief here is worth naming”, and “feels worth naming out loud” all match, along with the standalone “Worth naming:” opener.
• A negative lookahead skips “naming names” — a different, human idiom.
• On the canonical example sentence, the existing “Is real … and” pattern independently flags the “is real and” half, so the full cliché double-highlights.
• Adds 5 positive and 3 negative test cases, plus a sentence in the built-in example text that trips the new pattern exactly once, preserving the “example trips every pattern exactly once” test invariant.

All 73 self-tests pass headlessly via the Node one-liner in the page footer.

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https://claude.ai/code/session_01WpUUmMbM1zhwtjk5i4MkEy

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