Second Brain Lint
Systematically health-check your personal knowledge base by scanning for broken wikilinks, orphaned pages, conflicting claims across entries, outdated source citations, and gaps in cross-linking. The skill runs eight audit checks and groups findings by severity—errors requiring fixes, warnings to address, and optional improvements—then offers to apply corrections and log results.
Second Brain Lint validates your personal wiki for broken links, orphaned pages, contradictions, and missing cross-references.
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Second Brain Lint validates your personal wiki for broken links, orphaned pages, contradictions, and missing cross-references. Systematically health-check your personal knowledge base by scanning for broken wikilinks, orphaned pages, conflicting claims across entries, outdated source citations, and gaps in cross-linking. The skill runs eight audit checks and groups findings by severity—errors requiring fixes, warnings to address, and optional improvements—then offers to apply corrections and log results.
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- Second Brain Lint scans your entire vault automatically when you invoke it.
- Yes.
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Frequently asked questions
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What does Second Brain Lint do?
Second Brain Lint systematically health-checks your personal knowledge base by scanning for broken wikilinks, orphaned pages, conflicting claims across entries, outdated source citations, and gaps in cross-linking. The skill runs eight audit checks and groups findings by severity—errors requiring fixes, warnings to address, and optional improvements—then offers to apply corrections and log results.
How do I lint my second brain for errors?
Second Brain Lint scans your entire vault automatically when you invoke it. It identifies broken or missing links, orphaned notes with no incoming connections, inconsistencies between related entries, stale citations, and organizational gaps. Results are grouped by severity level so you can prioritize which issues to fix first.
Can Second Brain Lint check my Obsidian vault?
Yes. Second Brain Lint works with Obsidian vaults and other wikilink-based systems. It audits your note structure for broken links, validates cross-references, detects orphaned pages, and checks for consistency issues across your knowledge base, then reports findings organized by error severity.
What kinds of issues does Second Brain Lint find?
Second Brain Lint detects broken wikilinks, orphaned pages, conflicting claims across notes, outdated source citations, missing cross-links, and organizational gaps. It runs eight audit checks total and categorizes findings as errors (must fix), warnings (should address), or optional improvements to help you prioritize cleanup work.
How does Second Brain Lint report its findings?
Second Brain Lint groups all discovered issues by severity—critical errors, warnings, and optional improvements. It provides a clear audit report, offers to apply corrections automatically where possible, and logs results so you can track your vault's health over time and monitor progress.
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