Ingest

Skill BlaiseMoses01/obsidian-second-brain-starter/.claude/skills/ingest

Kaparthy LLM wiki style Obsidian vault template for Claude Code knowledge consolidation

Install

npx -y skills add BlaiseMoses01/obsidian-second-brain-starter --skill ingest

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One thing to look at

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What its author says it does

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Process a new raw source into the wiki — read it, discuss takeaways, write a source summary, update affected entity/concept/project pages, update index.md, and append to log.md. Use when a source is added to dump/ (or a file path is given) and you want it integrated. Global — works from any CWD.

SKILL.md

3.5 KB, 882 tokens by cl100k_base, as published. Nobody here has run it

Ingest a source

Integrate one new source into the wiki. Default to one source at a time and stay interactive.

Vault root

This skill is global — it runs from any CWD. Resolve the vault root before any reads/writes:

Resolve the vault root first. Run this in a Bash tool call (not via !-inline execution — the static permission check rejects shell expansions, so the inline form fails with "Contains expansion"):

d="${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR:-$(pwd)}"; if [ -n "${SECOND_BRAIN_DIR:-}" ]; then echo "$SECOND_BRAIN_DIR"; else while [ "$d" != "/" ] && [ -n "$d" ]; do if [ -f "$d/CLAUDE.md" ] && [ -d "$d/wiki" ]; then echo "$d"; break; fi; d=$(dirname "$d"); done; fi

Precedence: $SECOND_BRAIN_DIR → walk up from the skill dir for a folder with CLAUDE.md + wiki/. If neither resolves, stop and tell the user to set SECOND_BRAIN_DIR. All paths below (dump/, wiki/, index.md, log.md) are relative to this resolved root.

Steps

Read the source in full. The source is either the file at $ARGUMENTS (a path in any repo/CWD) or, if no argument is given, the new file(s) in <vault>/dump/. If it references images in <vault>/dump/assets/, read the text first, then view the relevant images for extra context. Never modify anything in <vault>/dump/.
Discuss takeaways with the user — 3–6 key points — before making mass edits. Confirm what to emphasize and which entities/concepts matter.
Write the source summary page in wiki/sources/<kebab-title>.md. Include frontmatter (url for hard-linked websites, author, source_date, ingested = today, media), a 1–2 line summary, key points, and [[links]] to every entity/concept it touches. (Rough notes jotted into dump/ are fair game to delete after ingestion; hard-linked sources live on via their url.)
Integrate across the wiki. Create or update the affected pages — people/, organizations/, concepts/, projects/, areas/, etc. A single source often touches 10–15 pages. For each:
- Add new facts; cite back with [[sources/<slug>]].
- Prefer updating an existing page over making a near-duplicate (check index.md first).
- If the source contradicts an existing claim, don't overwrite silently — add a > [!warning] Contradiction callout linking both sources and flag it to the user.
- Bump each touched page's updated: to today and add new [[wikilinks]].
- If the source contains action items / asks directed at the owner that don't already live in a meeting/goal/project, append them to wiki/tasks/open.md in its line format, with a src: [[sources/<slug>]] cite-back.
Update index.md — add the new source and any new pages under their category sections with one-line summaries.
Append to log.md: ## [YYYY-MM-DD] ingest | <Source Title> followed by 1–3 bullets listing the pages created/updated.
Update home.md if the ingest changed active projects, open goals, or recent decisions.

Done when

A sources/ summary exists, ≥1 entity/concept page was updated, index.md reflects the new pages, and log.md has a correctly-prefixed entry.