wiki-synthesize

wiki-synthesize is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Ar9av/obsidian-wiki. It costs 89 tokens per session (2,231 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow that scans an Obsidian wiki for groups of ideas that often appear together but do not yet have a dedicated connecting page. It then creates synthesis pages that explain the broader conclusions across those ideas.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to discover missing cross-topic summaries and create synthesis pages linking related concepts across the wiki.
Why use it?
It helps reveal connections that are easy to miss when knowledge is spread across separate notes. This turns repeated co-occurrences into reusable explanations.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to discover missing cross-topic summaries and create synthesis pages linking related concepts across the wiki.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ar9av/obsidian-wiki/wiki-synthesize
About the project

obsidian-wiki is a framework that helps AI agents build and maintain an interconnected knowledge base from text-based material in an Obsidian vault. It is for people who want their agents to remember discoveries, connect related information, and answer questions with wiki-link citations. Catalogue add-ons provide the agent skills, instructions, agents, and configuration used to create and maintain these wikis.

Ar9av/obsidian-wiki · 3,393 stars · on GitHub

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add Ar9av/obsidian-wiki --skill wiki-synthesize
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Ar9av/obsidian-wiki

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 89 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,231 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 18 May 2026
  • Snyk pass 18 May 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00089 $0.02231
Opus 5 $0.00044 $0.01115
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00446
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00223

Measured 12d ago against content hash 926625ee0a8e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

wiki-synthesize scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.skills/wiki-synthesize/SKILL.md · 213 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 213 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Wiki Synthesize — First-Class Synthesis Discovery

You are scanning the wiki for concepts that co-occur across many pages but have no dedicated synthesis page connecting them. Your job is to surface these gaps and fill the most valuable ones with cross-cutting synthesis pages.

Before You Start

Writing profile: Before drafting or rewriting natural-language Markdown, read and apply the Writing Profile Resolution section in llm-wiki/SKILL.md. Framework schema, provenance, safety, and operation-specific requirements take precedence. WRITING.md preferences apply only to newly drafted or rewritten natural-language Markdown; preserve source content and structured records.

  1. Resolve config — follow the Config Resolution Protocol in llm-wiki/SKILL.md (inline @name override → walk up CWD for .env → global config → prompt setup). This gives OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH and OBSIDIAN_LINK_FORMAT (default: wikilink).
  2. Read index.md to get the full page inventory.
  3. Read hot.md if it exists — it surfaces recent activity and active threads that may already point to synthesis opportunities.
  4. Read _meta/taxonomy.md to understand the tag vocabulary.

When writing internal links in synthesis pages, apply the link format from llm-wiki/SKILL.md (Link Format section) using the OBSIDIAN_LINK_FORMAT value.

Step 1: Build the Co-occurrence Map

Scan every non-special page in the vault (skip index.md, log.md, hot.md, _insights.md, _meta/*, _archives/*, _raw/*).

For each page, collect:

  • All [[wikilinks]] it contains (outgoing links)
  • Its tags frontmatter
  • Its category frontmatter

Build a co-occurrence matrix: for every pair of concept/entity pages (A, B), count how many other pages link to both A and B. This is their co-occurrence score.

You don't need to be exhaustive — aim for the top 20-30 pairs by co-occurrence score. Use Grep to find backlinks efficiently:

rg -l --glob '*.md' "\[\[ConceptA\]\]" "$OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH"

Read the full file on GitHub · 213 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 213 lines · 89 tokens per session scan A 926625ee0a8e

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wiki-synthesize is a skill published in the GitHub repository Ar9av/obsidian-wiki (3,393 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 89 tokens to every session and 2,231 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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