NorthwoodsSentinel/pii-scrub

Detect, pseudonymize, and restore PII in text. Python port of jcfischer/pii-pseudonymizer with transcript-aware chunking.

Python1 ★Security & PrivacyGitHub ↗
Quality: weak 10/24
PAI: note 0.75
Appraised: 2026-05-27 current
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Overview

Verdict

Rating Summary
Quality weak (10/24) Competent README and solid documentation, but no releases, no test infrastructure, no manifest, 1 star, and last commit 58 days prior.
PAI Relevance NOTE (0.75) Fills a genuine PAI gap — no existing skill covers PII scrubbing before AI sends — but Python-only and too immature to act on now.

Composite (0.75) is the highest NOTE in the vault. The PAI gap is real and specific: PAI routes documents and transcripts to AI agents constantly but has zero PII handling. If this repo matures or a TS equivalent appears, it would be an INTEGRATE candidate immediately.

Quality Assessment

10/24 — stale-risk / adequately-documented / no-signals

Health: 3/8 (stale-risk)

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Documentation: 6/8 (adequately-documented)

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Engineering Signals: 1/8 (no-signals)

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PAI Relevance

Dimension Score Assessment
Harvest Value 1 The transcript-aware NER chunking pattern (splitting timestamped speaker-turn blocks before entity extraction) is a concrete technique worth studying for any PAI skill that processes long-form documents; the deterministic Faker seed approach for session-stable pseudonyms is tidy but not novel.
Integration Readiness 1 Python-only with a CLI interface (python3 pii_scrub.py) that outputs structured JSON session files; could be subprocess-called from a PAI skill with adapter code, but requires Python on the host and is not bun add-able.
Overlap Risk 0 No PAI skill, tool, or hook covers PII detection or pseudonymization; the security infrastructure (Silas agent, security hooks) handles access control and audit, not content scrubbing before AI transit.
Gap Fill 2 PAI routes transcripts and documents to AI agents as a core workflow and has no mechanism to scrub PII before those sends; this addresses a clear functional gap in the Capability Manifest.

Composite: 0.75

What Next

Landscape Position

Category: Security & Privacy

In this category: elder-plinius--ST3GG (decent 14/24, watch) — steganography suite

Standing: First PII-handling entry in the category; ST3GG covers steganography for a different privacy use case, so there is no functional overlap within the category.

Evidence Base

Density: 6/10 — README (full, 8KB), repo metadata (stars, forks, dates, license, language, archive status), landscape context, and prior appraisal score available; dependency manifest not available, no CI config, no source file listing, no release notes, no commit history detail.

Notes

The gap fill score (2) combined with zero overlap makes this the strongest PAI relevance signal of any NOTE-rated repo in the vault. The constraint is entirely on quality: single-developer, no releases, no tests, no manifest, 6 days of commit history. If NorthwoodsSentinel ships a TypeScript/Bun port (consistent with their loam and brook projects) or wraps this in a clean subprocess-friendly binary, it would clear the INTEGRATE threshold without requiring any re-evaluation of PAI fit.