setup-vault-types

setup-vault-types is a skill for Claude Code from mycelium-hq/ai-brain-starter. It costs 114 tokens per session (1,878 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A setup wizard for choosing which kinds of documents an Obsidian vault should track and which extractors should process them. An Obsidian vault is a folder of linked plain-text notes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to detect existing note types, enable matching extractors, and plan custom extractors for journals, books, meetings, clients, messages, or other documents.
Why use it?
Notes can be skipped when the system does not know what type they are or which extractor handles them. This configures support for the document types you actually use.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Part of the ai-brain-starter plugin — 38 skills, 17 commands, 3 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to detect existing note types, enable matching extractors, and plan custom extractors for journals, books, meetings, clients, messages, or other documents.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mycelium-hq/ai-brain-starter/setup-vault-types
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add mycelium-hq/ai-brain-starter --skill setup-vault-types
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mycelium-hq/ai-brain-starter

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ai-brain-starter, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 38 skills, 17 commands, 3 agents, 1 hook.

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Per session 114 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,878 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
  • 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 $0.00114 $0.01878
Opus 5 $0.00057 $0.00939
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00376
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00188

Measured 10d ago against content hash 9612d0e2e77f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

setup-vault-types 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 10d 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.

skills/setup-vault-types/SKILL.md · 191 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 191 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/setup-vault-types

{SKILL_DIR} = this skill's own folder (locally: the directory this SKILL.md lives in; a served brain substitutes the real absolute path before you read this). Shared starter files live at the repo root two levels up: {SKILL_DIR}/../... If a path does not resolve, name the missing file and stop — never guess another location.

Figure out which doc types belong in this vault, then wire the right extractors.

Why

/second-brain-mapping ships with 18 extractors. You probably don't need all of them. This wizard:

  1. Asks what kinds of notes you take
  2. Enables the matching extractors
  3. Offers to scaffold new extractors for types we don't ship

No "start small" suggestion. You get all the capability for the types you have.

Steps

Step 1 — Detect existing types

Scan the vault for files already declaring type: in frontmatter:

cd "$(vault-root)"
grep -rh "^type:" --include="*.md" -I . 2>/dev/null \
  | sed 's/^type:\s*//' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -30

Tell the user: "Your vault already has these types declared: …"

Step 2 — Ask what they take notes on

Present this list, ask user to pick any/all that apply:

Core journaling & reflection:
  [ ] journal        — daily reflection / gratitude / mood
  [ ] daily_log      — task-log style (Roam/Capacities daily)
  [ ] goal           — OKRs, quarterly plans, vision docs

Reading & learning:
  [ ] book           — book notes, highlights, reviews
  [ ] article        — saved essays, blog posts, long reads
  [ ] concept        — evergreen concept notes (PKM backbone)

People & relationships:
  [ ] person         — CRM / contact notes
  [ ] meeting        — 1:1s, team syncs, call notes

Creative & publishing:
  [ ] writing_draft  — blog drafts, book chapters, newsletters
  [ ] talk           — speaking engagements, workshops given

Work & business:
  [ ] business       — pitches, memos, client docs, investor updates
  [ ] strategy       — strategic plans, frameworks, bets
  [ ] negotiation_prep — deal prep, BATNA docs
  [ ] company        — entity notes (past/current ventures)
  [ ] ai_chat        — saved AI conversations (Claude, GPT, etc.)
  [ ] playbook       — SOPs, step-by-step guides

Lifestyle:
  [ ] travel         — trip notes, restaurants, places visited

Assets & reference:
  [ ] asset          — brand files, logos, templates
  [ ] reference      — cheat sheets, quick-lookup docs

Custom:
  [+] Add your own type

Read the full file on GitHub · 191 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. 10d ago First seen · 191 lines · 114 tokens per session scan A 9612d0e2e77f

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setup-vault-types is a skill published in the GitHub repository mycelium-hq/ai-brain-starter (36 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 114 tokens to every session and 1,878 once invoked, about $0.0006 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 2026-08-31.

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