Obsidian bases
Obsidian knowledge-distillery skill for Claude Code and Codex — AI-assisted concept capture, Markdown notes, and reusable learning maps for your vault.
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Required companion skill for keeping Obsidian knowledge-base navigation healthy: Bases-compatible metadata, MOCs, indexes, capture logs, recent-note sections, and dashboard surfaces. Use when new or updated notes should appear in Obsidian navigation views.
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Obsidian Bases
Use this skill when a capture should update navigation surfaces in an Obsidian vault.
Goal
New notes should not become isolated files. They should appear in at least one navigation surface:
- domain
_index.md - project or domain MOC
capture-log.mdorwiki-log.md- session MOC for multi-note captures
- Obsidian Bases/dashboard files when the vault already uses them
Metadata For Views
Keep frontmatter consistent so Bases or Dataview-like views can filter notes:
type: concept
domain: software-engineering
depth: working
scenario: S5
confidence: high
provenance: extracted
created: "2026-06-11"
updated: "2026-06-11"
tags:
- domain/software-engineering
- status/active
- topic/debugging
Index Updates
If a domain _index.md exists, add one row:
| [[note-slug]] | concept | high | What this note teaches |
The description should explain the value of the note, not repeat tags.
MOC Updates
If a relevant MOC exists, add a wikilink under the most specific heading. If no heading fits, add to "Recent Notes" or "Open Gaps".
Do not create many new MOCs unless the capture creates a new stable domain or a session with 3+ concepts.
Session MOCs
Create a session MOC when 3+ concepts are captured together. It should include:
- concepts captured
- depth/type per concept
- connections discovered
- stub candidates
For domain onboarding, the domain learning map is the session MOC.
Bases Compatibility
If the vault already contains Obsidian Bases files or dashboard conventions, preserve and update them. Do not invent a Bases schema for users who do not have one.