Obsidian Literature Workflow

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Gives your agent an obsidian claude skill that organises academic papers into structured notes, syntheses, and drafts.

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Details

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About this skill

Use this skill when the user keeps paper notes inside an Obsidian project knowledge base and wants filesystem-first literature review, explicit agent-first Zotero ingestion, `Papers/` plus `Knowledge/` synthesis, collection-wide normalization, and a default literature canvas without Obsidian MCP.

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by brycewang-stanford/auto-empirical-research-skills in skills/33-Galaxy-Dawn-claude-scholar/skills/obsidian-literature-workflow/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

This skill owns the project literature workflow.

Main flow

Sources/Papers/ -> Knowledge/ -> Writing/ -> Maps/literature.canvas

Default outputs

Sources/Papers/{paper-slug}.md
Knowledge/Literature Overview.md
Knowledge/Method Taxonomy.md
Knowledge/Research Gaps.md
Knowledge/Claim Map.md
Writing/related-work-draft.md only after promoted claims pass the evidence gate
Writing/comparison-matrix.md only after promoted claims pass the evidence gate
Maps/literature.canvas

Rules

paper notes stay under Sources/Papers/
literature synthesis does not live inside source notes
every synthesis note must link its supporting source notes
every research gap must carry evidence
every promoted claim must carry an Evidence Record ID, source type, claim strength, allowed wording, and forbidden stronger wording when it may flow into writing or rebuttal
weak paper notes, abstract-only pages, and webpage placeholders may update coverage or To-Read, but they cannot support Knowledge or Writing conclusions
default graph output is Maps/literature.canvas
do not generate extra canvases unless explicitly requested

Signals

GitHub stars: 4k
Forks: 531
Last commit: Sep 2026

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Item type: skill
Key: obsidian-literature-workflow
Source: github.com/brycewang-stanford/auto-empirical-research-skills

github.com/brycewang-stanford/auto-empirical-research-skills