| name | awesome-search-kg-orphans |
| description | Find orphan notes in the Awesome Search Obsidian vault — notes with no wikilinks in or out — and suggest or apply connections to existing notes. Use when running a graph health audit or when the KG feels sparse. |
Awesome Search KG — Orphan Finder
Use this skill to find and fix orphan notes: notes with zero inbound and zero outbound wikilinks. Orphans are captured ideas that were never connected to the knowledge graph.
When to use
- Periodic KG quality audits
- After a batch of new articles have been processed
- When the graph feels fragmented or underlinked
Vault Access
Always use the Obsidian MCP server for all vault operations — never access the vault directly via the filesystem (no Read/Write/Bash file tools). The MCP server is the only sanctioned way to read, search, create, and edit notes.
Workflow
1. Find orphans
Scan all notes in Awesome Search/ for files that contain no [[wikilinks]] in their body AND have no other notes linking to them.
Check each folder:
Awesome Search/Articles/Awesome Search/Concepts/Awesome Search/People/Awesome Search/Companies/Awesome Search/Topics/
A note is an orphan if:
- Its body contains zero
[[...]] wikilinks, AND
- No other note in the vault contains a
[[NoteTitle]] reference to it
2. Report
Output a table grouped by folder:
ORPHAN REPORT — Awesome Search KG
==================================
Articles (N orphans):
- Note Title
- ...
Concepts (N orphans):
- ...
People (N orphans):
- ...
Total: N orphans
3. Triage each orphan
For each orphan, read its content and determine:
- Integrate: note has real content worth connecting → suggest 2-3 specific wikilinks to add
- Stub: note is nearly empty → flag for expansion or deletion
- Noise: Medium/web clipping residue with no useful content → flag for deletion
4. Fix (if requested)
For orphans classified as Integrate:
- Add wikilinks to existing related notes in the body
- Add the orphan as a link in the most relevant related note's "Related" section
Do NOT delete any notes — only suggest deletion candidates and let the user confirm.
5. Report results
ORPHAN FIX SUMMARY
==================
Integrated: N notes (links added)
Flagged for expansion: N stubs
Flagged for deletion: N noise notes
Skipped: N (could not determine connections)
Notes
- Only add wikilinks that are genuinely meaningful — do not create links just to eliminate orphan status
- An orphan concept note that is truly standalone is better left as-is than linked incorrectly
- Run
awesome-search-kg-hubs after fixing orphans to check if any newly linked notes become unexpected hubs
