NorthwoodsSubstrate

NorthwoodsSubstrate is a skill for Claude Code from NorthwoodsSentinel/northwoods-pack. It costs 72 tokens per session (623 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A persistent memory store for saving and retrieving notes, decisions, questions, and other entries across coding-agent sessions and devices.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to remember a decision, save a thought, search past notes, or look up something the user said earlier.
Why use it?
It prevents useful context from being lost when a session ends or work moves to another device. You can search earlier notes instead of relying on memory or manually tracking them.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: effort in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths.

Good fit Use it to remember a decision, save a thought, search past notes, or look up something the user said earlier.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/northwoodssentinel/northwoods-pack/northwoods-substrate
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add NorthwoodsSentinel/northwoods-pack --skill northwoods-substrate
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NorthwoodsSentinel/northwoods-pack

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 623 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00072 $0.00623
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00311
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00125
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00062

Measured 12d ago against content hash 1f5b1a05e85d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

NorthwoodsSubstrate scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -s -X POST http://localhost:31337/notify \
pai-skills/northwoods-substrate/SKILL.md · 75 lines

What it actually says

Customization

~/.claude/PAI/USER/SKILLCUSTOMIZATIONS/NorthwoodsSubstrate/

Voice Notification

curl -s -X POST http://localhost:31337/notify \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"message": "Reaching the substrate"}' \
  > /dev/null 2>&1 &

NorthwoodsSubstrate — Memory Store

Calls the deployed Northwoods Pack Worker (one Worker, five modules) to read/write persistent memory entries.

Workflow

  1. Read pack.url and auth.token from ~/.claude/PAI/USER/SKILLCUSTOMIZATIONS/NorthwoodsPack/CONFIG.md.
  2. Use one of three endpoints depending on intent:
    • Save: POST {pack.url}/substrate/remember
    • Search: POST {pack.url}/substrate/recall
    • List by tag/type: GET {pack.url}/substrate/list?tag=X&type=Y&limit=N
  3. All requests require header X-Pack-Token: {auth.token}.

Save an entry

curl -s -X POST "$PACK_URL/substrate/remember" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "X-Pack-Token: $TOKEN" \
  -d '{
    "type": "breadcrumb",
    "body": "the thing to remember",
    "tags": ["topic1", "topic2"]
  }'

Common types: breadcrumb, decision, note, question, session. Returns {id, created_at}.

Search entries

curl -s -X POST "$PACK_URL/substrate/recall" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "X-Pack-Token: $TOKEN" \
  -d '{
    "query": "search term",
    "tags": ["optional"],
    "type": "optional",
    "limit": 20
  }'

Returns {entries: [...], count: N}.

List by tag

curl -s "$PACK_URL/substrate/list?tag=topic1&limit=10" \
  -H "X-Pack-Token: $TOKEN"

Failure behavior

If the Worker is unreachable, surface the error clearly. Do NOT silently swallow substrate writes — the user needs to know their thought wasn't saved.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 75 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A 1f5b1a05e85d

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NorthwoodsSubstrate is a skill published in the GitHub repository NorthwoodsSentinel/northwoods-pack (2 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 623 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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