wiki
wiki transforms Obsidian into a compounding knowledge system by scaffolding vault structure from your description, organizing sources and entities, and maintaining a hot cache of recent context. Unlike RAG systems, the wiki persists as a structured artifact where cross-references and contradictions surface automatically. Route ingest, query, and maintenance tasks to specialized sub-skills while the skill handles vault setup, indexing, and knowledge layer management.
wiki sets up a persistent Obsidian vault with AI-generated structure, cross-references, and hot-cache management for compounding knowledge.
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wiki sets up a persistent Obsidian vault with AI-generated structure, cross-references, and hot-cache management for compounding knowledge. wiki transforms Obsidian into a compounding knowledge system by scaffolding vault structure from your description, organizing sources and entities, and maintaining a hot cache of recent context. Unlike RAG systems, the wiki persists as a structured artifact where cross-references and contradictions surface automatically. Route ingest, query, and maintenance tasks to specialized sub-skills while the skill handles vault setup, indexing, and knowledge layer management.
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- wiki builds a persistent, compounding knowledge system that grows with each source you add.
- Yes.
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Install
AgriciDaniel/claude-obsidian/wiki · repository language: Python
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Frequently asked questions
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How do I set up obsidian wiki vault with wiki?
wiki scaffolds a new Obsidian vault from your description, creating folders, templates, and initial structure automatically. Describe your knowledge domain—research project, personal learning, team documentation—and wiki generates a starter architecture with entity templates, source organization, and indexing patterns. The vault is ready for immediate use with AI-powered scaffolding that adapts to your needs.
What makes wiki different from a regular knowledge base?
wiki builds a persistent, compounding knowledge system that grows with each source you add. Unlike RAG systems that retrieve and discard, wiki maintains a structured artifact where cross-references and contradictions surface automatically. Your vault becomes a second brain for cross-project referencing, with a hot cache of recent context and organized indexing that evolves as your knowledge grows.
Can I organize my obsidian vault with AI scaffolding?
Yes. wiki provides AI-powered structure and scaffolding to organize your vault. It handles entity organization, source routing, and wiki architecture setup. You can route specialized tasks—ingest, query, maintenance—to sub-skills while wiki manages the vault setup, indexing, and knowledge layer. This keeps your vault organized and your knowledge operations efficient.
How does wiki create a second brain for context management?
wiki organizes your Obsidian vault as a persistent second brain with hot cache and indexing for fast context retrieval. Cross-references between notes surface automatically, enabling you to see connections across projects and sources. The structured wiki maintains recent context in a hot cache, so your most relevant knowledge is always accessible for new work.
What's included in wiki's persistent knowledge base setup?
wiki scaffolds your vault with templates, folder structure, entity organization, and indexing patterns tailored to your domain. It sets up source management, cross-referencing systems, and a hot cache for recent context. The knowledge base is designed to compound—each new source strengthens the vault's structure and makes retrieval faster and more contextual.
How does wiki integrate with Claude and Obsidian?
wiki uses Claude to understand your knowledge domain and generate vault scaffolding, then maintains the structured Obsidian vault as a persistent artifact. You can route ingest, query, and maintenance tasks to specialized sub-skills while wiki handles the overall vault architecture, indexing, and knowledge layer management. This creates a seamless AI-powered knowledge companion.
SKILL.md
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wiki: Claude + Obsidian Knowledge Companion
You are a knowledge architect. You build and maintain a persistent, compounding wiki inside an Obsidian vault. You don't just answer questions. You write, cross-reference, file, and maintain a structured knowledge base that gets richer with every source added and every question asked.
The wiki is the product. Chat is just the interface.
The key difference from RAG: the wiki is a persistent artifact. Cross-references are already there. Contradictions have been flagged. Synthesis already reflects everything read. Knowledge compounds like interest.
Architecture
Three layers:
``` vault/ ├──
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Related skills
wiki-query lets you ask questions against your Obsidian vault and retrieves answers by reading cached content, indexes, and relevant pages. It supports three query depths—quick for simple facts, standard for most questions, and deep for comprehensive synthesis—and can file good answers back into your wiki to compound knowledge over time.
wiki-retrieve upgrades vault search from page-level to chunk-level granularity, combining contextual prefixes, BM25 sparse retrieval, and dense reranking to reduce retrieval failures. Setup is opt-in with built-in privacy gates: run fully on-machine with synthetic prefixes, or opt into Anthropic API or claude CLI tiers for better context generation.
wiki-ingest reads external sources—files, URLs, or images—and populates your Obsidian vault by extracting entities and concepts, then creating or updating interconnected wiki pages. It handles delta tracking to skip unchanged sources, supports multiple vault organization modes, and uses file locking to safely coordinate concurrent writes across your knowledge base.
wiki-lint scans your Obsidian vault to surface structural problems: orphaned pages, broken wikilinks, missing cross-references, incomplete frontmatter, and empty sections. It generates a timestamped health report, updates Dataview dashboards, and can create visual canvas maps of your vault's domain structure.
save captures valuable chat content and files it as a permanent wiki page with the right structure and metadata. It analyzes conversations to pick the best note type—synthesis, concept, source, decision, or session—then creates frontmatter, places the note in the correct folder, and updates your wiki's index and log. The skill respects your vault's organization mode and handles concurrent writes safely.
Canvas organizes visual references in Obsidian by letting you add images, PDFs, and wiki pages to canvas files with automatic positioning inside zones. It integrates with the /banana image capture skill and supports multiple operations like creating new canvases, managing zones, and listing existing canvases.
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