vault-health

name	vault-health
description	Audit the vault for structural issues: unresolved wikilinks, orphan notes, dead-end notes, and Obsidian sync conflicts. Optional --fix flags create stubs or surface fixable issues.
license	MIT

Vault Health

Usage

• /vault-health — Run all checks, present a triage report.
• /vault-health unresolved — Only show unresolved [[wikilinks]].
• /vault-health orphans — Only show notes with no incoming links.
• /vault-health deadends — Only show notes with no outgoing links.
• /vault-health sync — Only check Obsidian sync conflicts.
• /vault-health --fix-people — For unresolved [[@*]] links, prompt to create Teams/People/@Name.md stubs in batch (delegates to /people-stubs).

Why this skill exists

The vault grows over time and accumulates structural debt:

• Dead [[@Jane Doe]] links because the person file was never created.
• Notes orphaned in subfolders, never linked from any project/team page.
• Sync conflicts when two devices edit the same file simultaneously.

This skill surfaces all of that in one pass.

Workflow

Step 1: Run all checks (or the subset requested)

Check	Command	What it returns
Unresolved links	obsidian unresolved format=json	All [[link]] pointers with no target file.
Orphans	obsidian orphans format=json	Files no other file links to.
Deadends	obsidian deadends format=json	Files with no outgoing links.
Sync conflicts	obsidian sync:status format=json	Files with unresolved sync versions.

Run only the requested subset; full sweep when no argument is given.

Step 2: Categorize and present

Group findings by type and severity:

## Unresolved wikilinks (12)

People-flavored ([[@*]]) — likely missing People files:
| # | Link | Referenced in (count) |
|---|------|----------------------|
| 1 | [[@Jane Doe]] | 6 meetings |
| 2 | [[@John Smith]] | 3 meetings |

Other unresolved:
| # | Link | Referenced in |
|---|------|---------------|
| 3 | [[+SomeNewTeam]] | 1 meeting |

## Orphan notes (4)
| # | Path | Created | Reason it might matter |
|---|------|---------|------------------------|
| 1 | Meetings/Engineering/Old Notes.md | 2026-01-12 | Probably needs to link to a project page |

## Deadend notes (8)
...

## Sync conflicts (0)
✓ All synced.

For people-flavored unresolved links, sort by count descending — most-referenced unresolved person is most worth creating a file for.

Step 3: Offer fixes

• For --fix-people (or after presenting): prompt the user to create People stubs in batch. Delegate to /people-stubs which handles the actual creation.
• For orphans/deadends: don't auto-fix. They might be intentional. Just surface.
• For sync conflicts: don't auto-fix. Sync conflicts need human judgment. Surface and tell the user to resolve via Obsidian's UI or obsidian sync:history.

Step 4: Commit

See /commit. The skill itself doesn't write files (except via /people-stubs if invoked). If anything changed, commit message: chore(vault-health): create N people stubs from unresolved links (or similar).

Sync conflict resolution

When obsidian sync:status reports conflicts:

1. List them with obsidian sync:status format=json (path + version count per file).
2. For each conflicted file, surface in the report with these next-action hints:
   • View versions: obsidian sync:history file="<path>" — see what each side wrote.
   • Read a specific version: obsidian sync:read file="<path>" version=<N> — preview without writing.
   • Restore: obsidian sync:restore file="<path>" version=<N> — pick one side.
   • Manual merge (preferred when both sides have meaningful changes): open the file in Obsidian, use the Sync history pane to pick chunks.
3. Never auto-restore — sync conflicts mean both sides have edits the user might want. Surface and let them choose.

Display sync conflicts at the top of the report (not last) — they're time-sensitive (the longer they sit, the more divergent the versions get).

Important Notes

• The skill is read-only by default — only --fix-people triggers writes (and even then, via /people-stubs with confirmation).
• Some orphans are intentional (e.g. USER.md, README.md). Consider an exclusion list in a future iteration.
• Sync conflict detection assumes Obsidian Sync is configured. If not, this check is a no-op (prints "✓ Sync not configured — skipped").
• Obsidian CLI requires the desktop app to be running. If it's not, the skill should print a helpful error.