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Scan the Obsidian wiki and automatically discover missing cross-references between pages. Use this skill when the user says "link my pages", "find missing links", "cross-reference", "connect my wiki", "add wikilinks", "what pages should be linked", or after any large ingestion to ensure new pages are woven into the existing knowledge graph. Also trigger when the user mentions "orphan pages" in the context of wanting to connect them, or says things like "my wiki feels disconnected" or "pages aren't linked well". This is a write-heavy skill — it actually modifies pages to add links, unlike wiki-lint which just reports issues.

Run the daily wiki maintenance cycle: check all source freshness, update the index, and regenerate hot.md. Use this skill when the user says "/daily-update", "run the daily update", "update everything", "morning sync", "refresh the wiki index", or when triggered by the launchd cron at 9 AM. Also use to set up or verify the cron + terminal notification infrastructure for the first time ("set up the daily cron", "install the terminal notification", "how do I get the morning reminder?").

Audit and maintain the health of the Obsidian wiki. Use this skill when the user wants to check their wiki for issues, find orphaned pages, detect contradictions, identify stale content, fix broken wikilinks, or perform general maintenance on their knowledge base. Also triggers on "clean up the wiki", "what needs fixing", "audit my notes", or "wiki health check".

Initialize a new Obsidian wiki vault with the correct structure, special files, and configuration. Use this skill when the user wants to set up a new wiki from scratch, initialize the vault structure, create the .env file, or says things like "set up my wiki", "initialize obsidian", "create a new vault", "get started with the wiki". Also use when the user needs to reconfigure their existing vault or fix a broken setup.

Show the current state of the wiki — what's been ingested, what's pending, and the delta between sources and wiki content. Use this skill when the user asks "what's the status", "how much is ingested", "what's left to process", "show me the delta", "what changed since last ingest", "wiki dashboard", or wants an overview of their knowledge base health and completeness. Also use before deciding whether to append or rebuild. Includes an insights mode triggered by "wiki insights", "what's central", "show me the hubs", "central pages", "what's connected", "wiki structure" — analyzes the shape of the wiki itself to surface top hubs, cross-domain bridges, and orphan-adjacent pages.

Answer a MemoryLane question and return a structured TASK object the frontend renders as a tab in the right panel. Performs the same retrieval as `wiki-query`, but reshapes the result into the JSON contract defined in `memorylane/knowledge-frontend/data.jsx` — `activatedNodeIds`, `moments[]`, `entities[]`, `insight`, `blocks[]`, `sessionMeta`, `subassemblyTags`. Use this skill when the user invokes `wiki-ask <question>` or when a backend route (`POST /api/ask`) spawns claw with the question as the prompt. Distinct from `wiki-query` (returns prose with citations for human reading); this one returns machine-readable JSON for componentized rendering.

Resolve a vault page (moment, entity, session, or synthesis) into the JSON shape the MemoryLane frontend's evidence sheet renders. Given a `block_id` (file basename without `.md`) and optional `node_type` hint, parses the page's YAML frontmatter, tokenizes the markdown body into typed blocks (h1, h2, p, quote, links), resolves `[[wikilinks]]` to connected node ids, and emits a single JSON object to stdout. Use this skill when the user invokes `wiki-evidence <block_id> [<node_type>]`, or when a backend route (`/api/evidence/{block_id}`) spawns claw with that prompt. NOT a user-facing conversational skill — the output is machine-readable JSON for the frontend.

Export the vault as NODES + EDGES JSON for the MemoryLane frontend graph canvas. Walks moments/, sessions/, entities/{people,places,objects}/, and synthesis/, reads frontmatter, parses [[wikilinks]] for edges, computes a force-directed layout in a 1600×1100 viewport, and writes the result to $OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH/_meta/graph.json. Use this skill when the user says "export the graph", "rebuild the graph", "refresh frontend data", "regenerate graph.json", or after a batch of moments has been ingested. Distinct from `wiki-export` (which targets Gephi/Neo4j/GraphML for external graph tools) — this skill produces the in-app constellation viewer's exact data shape.

Compose a 3–5 sentence daily recap of MemoryLane activity and send it as an outbound SMS via the `pingram.send` MCP tool. Reads `$OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH/hot.md` (the framework's recent-activity snapshot) and today's `$OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH/journal/<YYYY-MM-DD>.md` if present, composes a warm, specific recap (names, places, the standout moment), and sends to the user's phone number from `PINGRAM_USER_NUMBER` env. Use this skill when the user says "send my recap", "/wiki-recap", "what was today like", or when the launchd cron at 21:00 invokes it. Distinct from `daily-update` (which only refreshes the vault index) — this is the user-facing outbound text.

Ingest any raw text data, conversation logs, chat exports, or unstructured documents into the Obsidian wiki. Use this skill when the user wants to process data that isn't standard documents or Claude history — things like ChatGPT exports, Slack threads, Discord logs, meeting transcripts, journal entries, CSV data, browser bookmarks, email archives, or any raw text dump. Triggers on "ingest this data", "process these logs", "add this export to the wiki", "import my chat history from X". This is the catch-all for any text source not covered by the more specific ingest skills.

Fetch a URL and distill its content into the Obsidian wiki. If invoked from inside a project directory, the page lands directly in that project's folder (creating the project in the vault if needed). Otherwise it goes to misc/ and gains project affinity over time. Use this skill when the user says "/ingest-url <url>", "add this URL to the wiki", "ingest this link", "save this page", or pastes a URL and says "add this" or "save this to my wiki".

The foundational knowledge distillation pattern for building and maintaining an AI-powered Obsidian wiki. Based on Andrej Karpathy's LLM Wiki architecture. Use this skill whenever the user wants to understand the wiki pattern, set up a new knowledge base, or needs guidance on the three-layer architecture (raw sources → wiki → schema). Also use when discussing knowledge management strategy, wiki structure decisions, or how to organize distilled knowledge. This is the "theory" skill — other skills handle specific operations (ingesting, querying, linting).

Save the current conversation as a permanent, structured wiki note. Use this skill when the user says "save this", "/wiki-capture", "capture this", "file this conversation", "preserve this", "add this to my wiki", or wants to turn what was just discussed into lasting knowledge. The skill classifies the content, rewrites it as declarative knowledge (not a chat transcript), and places it in the correct vault category.

Ingest documents into the Obsidian wiki by distilling their knowledge into interconnected wiki pages. Use this skill whenever the user wants to add new sources to their wiki, process a document or directory, import articles, papers, or notes into their knowledge base, or says things like "add this to the wiki", "process these docs", "ingest this folder". Also triggers when the user drops a file and wants it incorporated into their existing knowledge base. Also handles raw mode: "process my drafts", "promote my raw pages", or any reference to the _raw/ staging directory.

Answer questions by searching the compiled Obsidian wiki. Use this skill when the user asks a question about their knowledge base, wants to find information across their wiki, asks "what do I know about X", "find everything related to Y", or wants synthesized answers with citations from their wiki pages. Also use when the user wants to explore connections between topics in their wiki. Works from any project. Includes an index-only fast mode triggered by "quick answer", "just scan", "don't read the pages", "fast lookup" — returns answers from page summaries and frontmatter without reading page bodies.

Archive existing wiki knowledge and rebuild from scratch, or restore from a previous archive. Use this skill when the user wants to start fresh, rebuild the wiki from all sources, archive current knowledge before a major change, or restore an older version. Triggers on "rebuild the wiki", "start over", "archive and rebuild", "restore from archive", "nuke and repave", "clean rebuild". Also use when the wiki has drifted too far from sources and incremental fixes won't cut it.

Autonomously research a topic via multi-round web search, synthesize findings, and file structured results into the Obsidian wiki. Use this skill when the user says "/wiki-research [topic]", "research X", "find everything about Y", "do a deep dive on Z", "autonomous research on X", or wants comprehensive, web-sourced knowledge on a topic filed directly into their wiki.

Sync the current project's knowledge into the Obsidian wiki. Use this skill from any project when the user says "update wiki", "sync to wiki", "save this to my wiki", "update obsidian", or wants to distill what they've been working on into their knowledge base. This is the cross-project skill that lets you push knowledge from wherever you are into the vault.