Claude Code-powered second brain template for Obsidian — skills, auto-linking, and conventions
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Extract clean markdown content from web pages using Defuddle CLI, removing clutter and navigation to save tokens. Use instead of WebFetch when the user provides a URL to read or analyze, for online documentation, articles, blog posts, or any standard web page.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Helps users discover and install agent skills when they ask questions like "how do I do X", "find a skill for X", "is there a skill that can...", or express interest in extending capabilities. This skill should be used when the user is looking for functionality that might exist as an installable skill.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Cross-skill recipe: fetch today's (or tomorrow's) Google Calendar events via gws CLI and create meeting prep notes in the Obsidian vault.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Ingest an article from a URL or raw text into the brain vault. Extracts key knowledge, determines placement, creates or updates notes, and links to relevant projects. Use when the user shares a URL or text and wants to absorb it into their knowledge base.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Create and edit JSON Canvas files (.canvas) with nodes, edges, groups, and connections. Use when working with .canvas files, creating visual canvases, mind maps, flowcharts, or when the user mentions Canvas files in Obsidian.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Guided first-run setup for a forked brain-starter vault. Walks through identity, first project, semantic search, integrations, indexes, and the first commit - verifying each phase before moving on. Use when the user has just forked or cloned brain-starter, says "set up my brain", "I just forked brain-starter", or runs…
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Run health checks over the brain vault - find orphan notes, broken wikilinks, missing frontmatter, stale projects, and missing cross-links. Use when asked to "lint the brain", "health check", "vault hygiene", or "/lint-brain".
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Log cross-cutting business/product/hiring/vendor decisions to decisions/ directory with context and alternatives.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Create and edit Obsidian Bases (.base files) with views, filters, formulas, and summaries. Use when working with .base files, creating database-like views of notes, or when the user mentions Bases, table views, card views, filters, or formulas in Obsidian.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Interact with Obsidian vaults using the Obsidian CLI to read, create, search, and manage notes, tasks, properties, and more. Also supports plugin and theme development with commands to reload plugins, run JavaScript, capture errors, take screenshots, and inspect the DOM. Use when the user asks to interact with their…
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Create and edit Obsidian Flavored Markdown with wikilinks, embeds, callouts, properties, and other Obsidian-specific syntax. Use when working with .md files in Obsidian, or when the user mentions wikilinks, callouts, frontmatter, tags, embeds, or Obsidian notes.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
On-demand AI-powered sync of a project's repo state into the brain vault. Reads live git/GitHub/Jira data, updates the project status doc, and makes targeted edits to relevant brain docs where content is clearly stale. Triggered by "/project-sync [name]", "sync [project]", "what's the current state of [project]".
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Search markdown knowledge bases, notes, and documentation using QMD. Use when users ask to search notes, find documents, or look up information.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Research a topic using /last30days community signals, then produce a structured comparison matrix and recommendation note in the brain vault. Use when evaluating tools, libraries, vendors, or approaches — e.g. "spike on auth providers", "research X vs Y", "evaluate options for Z".
Skill Claude CodeCodex
File a conversation output (research, analysis, comparison, framework) back into the brain vault so it compounds instead of vanishing into chat history. Use when the user says "save this", "file this", "keep this", or when a valuable answer should persist.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
Sync reusable skills, configs, and templates from the private brain repo to the public brain-starter template repo. Use when you've updated a skill or config and want to push it to the open-source template.
Skill Claude CodeCodex
End-of-session review for a Claude Code conversation. Replays what was discussed, checks for open action items, documents relevant outcomes in the brain vault, and creates Todoist tasks for anything untracked. Use at the end of a work session to ensure nothing falls through the cracks.