Set up or upgrade an AI-powered Obsidian vault. Interviews you, builds your vault structure (or works with what you already have), creates your CLAUDE.md memory file, installs tools, and gets you journaling — all in one conversation. Also has a repair/upgrade path for existing users.
Use when the user wants to journal, do a daily or end-of-day check-in, reflect on or vent about their day, brain-dump feelings, log what happened today, or says /journal. Also fires for quick one-line captures and a second session the same day (resumes that day's entry). Not for meeting notes (use meeting-todos), morning priorities (use rise), weekly/monthly reviews (use insights), or cross-entry pattern analysis (use patterns).
Use when the user types /weekly or /monthly, asks for a weekly or monthly journal review or retrospective, asks 'how was my week' or 'how was my month', or wants trends, anomalies, or patterns across recent journal entries. Also fires when regenerating an insight report for a past week or month. NOT for writing today's entry (use daily-journal), cross-session pattern extraction (use patterns), or operational/team reviews.
Use when the user says /backfill-journal-body-context, wants existing daily journal entries enriched with body data retroactively (HRV, sleep, recovery, cycle phase, labs), says 'backfill my journals with health', wants Apple Health / Oura / Fitbit / Whoop history paired with past journals, or just ran /health-setup with a historical import. Not for brand-new entries (daily-journal covers those) or for editing journal text.
Use when the user says /patterns or mentions the Instinct Engine, says "I keep noticing" or "this keeps coming up", after a weekly review, when a pattern is hardening, or at session end after repeated corrections, 5+ tool-call friction on a routine task, dead-end backtracking, or an undocumented discovery. Also as a silent pre-flight before fix/debug/build/refactor on a named surface. Not for weekly/monthly journal reviews, daily journaling, or one-off decisions.
Use when the user wants to map or remap their second brain, refresh the vault's queryable metadata index, extract structured frontmatter from typed notes (books, meetings, people, journals, goals), fill wikilink gaps, or surface cross-type insights and patterns no single file shows. Triggers: /second-brain-mapping, "map my second brain", "make my vault queryable", "refresh vault metadata", stale or sparse Dataview fields. Not for single-file reads or querying an existing graph (use graphify).
Use when the user says /coach (today, week, month, profile, log), asks what to do today for training, asks for a workout, weekly training plan, or longevity plan, wants to log a finished workout or check lift progression (PR, plateau, deload), or a scheduled morning task fires to drop today's workout into the calendar. NOT for importing health data (use ingest-health/health-setup), raw biometric queries without a prescription, or emotional/life coaching (use coaching).
Use when the user wants to process a hard conversation, a decision they're second-guessing, or accumulated friction with a person (too big for a daily journal), wants panel takes that update with their corrections, or wants growth on a theme tracked over weeks. Triggers: /coaching, "coach me through this", "help me process this". NOT fitness coaching (/coach), daily entries (/journal), weekly/monthly reviews (/weekly, /monthly), or cross-session pattern detection (/patterns).