Obsidian Project KB Core
SkillDocs & knowledgeLets your agent organize and maintain a project research knowledge base in Obsidian, including logs, indexes, and notes.
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About this skill
Use this as the main Claude Scholar skill for a vault-first, project-scoped Obsidian research knowledge base rooted at Research/{project-slug}/. It owns bootstrap, routing, daily logging, hub/plan/index maintenance, registry updates, lifecycle actions, and lint orchestration.
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by galaxy-dawn/claude-scholar in skills/obsidian-project-kb-core/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
This is the main workflow authority for project-scoped Obsidian knowledge maintenance.
Default project root:
Research/{project-slug}/
Default structure:
00-Hub.md
01-Plan.md
02-Index.md
Sources/
Knowledge/
Experiments/
Results/
Reports/
Writing/
Daily/
Maps/
Archive/
_system/
Core rules
- Keep all durable project knowledge inside the current
Research/{project-slug}/. - Keep repo-local
.claude/project-memory/*only as the runtime binding layer. _system/registry.mdis the only visible project registry.02-Index.mdis a human navigation note, not a registry mirror.Maps/is a derived-artifact area; do not generate non-essential canvases by default.Results/Reports/is the default subdirectory for round and batch experiment reports.
Responsibilities
- detect and bind the current repo to a project root
- bootstrap the project skeleton
- route notes into
Sources / Knowledge / Experiments / Results / Results/Reports / Writing / Daily / Maps / Archive - update
00-Hub.md,01-Plan.md,02-Index.md - update
_system/registry.md,_system/schema.md,_system/lint-report.md - handle note lifecycle actions: create, update, rename, archive, purge, promote, and link repair
- run deterministic health checks through helper scripts
Deterministic helpers
Use the scripts under scripts/ for:
- scaffold
- registry consistency
- link checks
- index checks
- canvas checks
- lint aggregation
Use agents for:
- note routing
- daily promotion decisions
- source vs knowledge judgment
- stable-result judgment
- semantic Hub and Index updates
Read next
references/DIRECTORY-SCHEMA.mdreferences/HUB-PLAN-INDEX.mdreferences/REGISTRY.mdreferences/DAILY-PROMOTION.mdreferences/LIFECYCLE.mdreferences/LINT.mdreferences/BINDING-LAYER.md
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 6k
- Forks
- 443
- Last commit
- Sep 2026
Advanced
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- skill
- Key
obsidian-project-kb-core- Source
- github.com/galaxy-dawn/claude-scholar
github.com/galaxy-dawn/claude-scholar
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