MOC Update After New Note
SkillDocs & knowledgeSuggests which Maps of Content notes a newly created Engineering note should be added to in Obsidian.
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Details
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About this skill
Use after creating a new Engineering/ note to suggest which Maps of Content (MOCs) it belongs in. Triggers on "update MOC", "add to MOC", "which MOCs", or when the user has just created an Engineering/ note.
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by thoreinstein/gemini-obsidian in skills/moc-update/SKILL.md and read by Ahel’s review.
Find the Maps of Content (MOCs) that should link to a newly created note and suggest the additions.
Workflow
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Identify the new note — Path follows the skill invocation. If not provided, ask.
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Semantic MOC search — Call
obsidian_rag_querywith the note title as query,limit: 10. Flag results that are MOC-style notes (path contains "MOC", filename ends in "-MOC", ortype: mocfrontmatter). -
Keyword fallback — Call
obsidian_search_noteswith key terms from the note title to catch MOCs that aren't yet indexed. -
Present suggestions — For each candidate MOC, show:
- The MOC path
- Which heading the link should go under (if readable)
- A proposed link line:
- [[NoteName]] — one-line description
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Append on confirmation — Call
obsidian_insert_at_heading(preferred) orobsidian_append_noteto add the link. Never edit without user approval.
Arguments
New note path: /moc-update Engineering/AuthPatterns.md
Tips
- If the vault has no MOCs yet, offer to create a starter one at
MOCs/<Topic>-MOC.md - Daily Notes are not MOCs — skip them in results
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 102
- Forks
- 9
- Last commit
- Jul 2026
Advanced
- Item type
- skill
- Key
moc-update- Source
- github.com/thoreinstein/gemini-obsidian
github.com/thoreinstein/gemini-obsidian
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