save-term

A workflow for saving one term or phrase as a structured note in a Brain vault, a personal collection of organized notes. It supports terms found in outside sources and concepts created during a conversation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Capturing a term with its source and quotation, or saving a newly coined concept with a short explanation and example.
Why use it?
It keeps useful vocabulary in a consistent location and format instead of mixing it into general notes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nweii/agent-stuff/save-term
Any agent
npx skills add nweii/agent-stuff --skill save-term
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nweii/agent-stuff

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,594 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00076 $0.01594
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.00797
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00319
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00159

Measured 2d ago against content hash 096c8284e594, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

save-term scanned grade A with 0 findings 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 2d 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.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/save-term/SKILL.md · 145 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 145 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Save term

Save a term or phrase as a Term note in 02-Evergreen/Terms/. Two modes:

  1. Encountered — a term lifted from a book, article, conversation, or other external source. Body anchors on a source citation + quote.
  2. Coined — a term that emerged during conversation (often a compact replacement for a wordy phrase, or a fresh concept the user wants to lock in). Body is a brief gloss with a usage example or context.

This skill is not for general note-taking. It writes one specific shape of note — short, atomic, and aligned with the existing vault Term convention. For broader capture, use save-napkin-note.

Defer to AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md

Vault layout, metadata semantics, and tool-choice rules live in the vault's AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md. This skill only adds the procedure for writing one note type. When unsure about a field's meaning or which tool to use for vault writes, read those first.

Arguments

  • $ARGUMENTS: the term or phrase to save. If omitted, ask. If the term contains punctuation tricky for filenames (/, :, etc.), confirm a filesystem-safe variant before writing.

Process

1. Determine mode

Ask if not obvious from context:

  • Encountered — user is referencing something external (a book, article, person they're quoting, web clipping). Need a source.
  • Coined — emerged in this conversation, no external source. Likely came out of a phrase-revision pass or a fresh framing.

2. Gather what the body needs

For encountered terms:

  • Source citation — wikilink to an existing vault note if possible ([[Source note title]]), otherwise a markdown link to the URL with the article/book title as link text. Check 04-Entities/ and 03-Records/Clippings/ for an existing source note before defaulting to a raw URL.
  • Quote — verbatim passage from the source that defines or illustrates the term. Use a blockquote (>). Don't paraphrase.
  • Optional: brief framing sentence above the quote if needed for context, though most existing Term notes go straight to the quote.

Read the full file on GitHub · 145 lines

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. 2d ago First seen · 145 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A 096c8284e594

Subscribe to this mod's changes

save-term is a skill published in the GitHub repository nweii/agent-stuff (8 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 1,594 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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