Obsidian Project Lifecycle
SkillDocs & knowledgeUse this skill when the user wants to detach, archive, purge, or otherwise change the lifecycle state of an Obsidian project knowledge base.
Use Obsidian Project Lifecycle in Claude, ChatGPT or Ahel Desktop
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Then ask your AI: use the Obsidian Project Lifecycle skill
Details
Instructions available. Your AI can read the instructions. Execution depends on the setup they require.
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Add ahel to your AI once: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex. Then ask it to use this.
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-project-lifecycle/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
Use the shared helper script for deterministic lifecycle operations.
Role in the workflow
This is a supporting skill under obsidian-project-memory.
Use it for project-level state changes and, when needed, note-level removal or rename flows.
Project-level commands
python3 ../obsidian-project-memory/scripts/project_kb.py lifecycle --cwd "$PWD" --mode detach
python3 ../obsidian-project-memory/scripts/project_kb.py lifecycle --cwd "$PWD" --mode archive
python3 ../obsidian-project-memory/scripts/project_kb.py lifecycle --cwd "$PWD" --mode purge
Note-level command
python3 ../obsidian-project-memory/scripts/project_kb.py note-lifecycle --cwd "$PWD" --mode archive --note "Results/Old-Result.md"
python3 ../obsidian-project-memory/scripts/project_kb.py note-lifecycle --cwd "$PWD" --mode purge --note "Results/Old-Result.md"
python3 ../obsidian-project-memory/scripts/project_kb.py note-lifecycle --cwd "$PWD" --mode rename --note "Experiments/Old-Name.md" --dest "Experiments/New-Name.md"
Policy
- Detach: stop syncing, keep vault content.
- Archive: default for “remove this project's knowledge”; move the project to
Archive/and disable syncing. - Purge: only when the user explicitly requests permanent deletion.
- Rename / move: treat as update plus link repair, not delete plus create.
Always summarize what was removed, what was preserved, and whether auto-sync remains enabled.
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 4k
- Forks
- 531
- Last commit
- Sep 2026
Advanced
- Item type
- skill
- Key
obsidian-project-lifecycle- Source
- github.com/brycewang-stanford/auto-empirical-research-skills
github.com/brycewang-stanford/auto-empirical-research-skills
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