obsidian-second-brain

Operate any Obsidian vault as a living, self-rewriting second brain (an evolution of Karpathy's LLM Wiki pattern: sources rewrite existing pages, contradictions reconcile automatically, scheduled agents maintain the vault while you sleep). Use this skill whenever the user asks Claude to read, write, update, search, or manage their Obsidian vault - including saving notes from conversation, creating daily entries, updating kanban boards, logging dev work, managing people notes, capturing decisions, tracking deals, or maintaining any vault structure. Also triggers when the user wants to bootstrap

Try your first task

Understand your existing vault

Start a fresh conversation.

Use the obsidian-second-brain skill to orient yourself to my vault at <vault-path>. Read its _CLAUDE.md if present, scan its Markdown structure, and read 2–3 existing notes. Give me a brief overview of its folders, templates, naming conventions, frontmatter, and writing style. Do not modify any files.

Required inputs

Replace <vault-path> with the actual path to an accessible existing vault containing Markdown notes.

Suggested template by Skill Leaderboard, grounded in the linked source. Task evidence ↗

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