Compound

Skill slogsdon/skills-vault-knowledge/skills/compound

Twenty Obsidian knowledge-work skills for Claude Code: connect, contradict, emerge, trace, ghost, weekly-learnings.

Install

npx -y skills add slogsdon/skills-vault-knowledge --skill compound

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Use when asked how knowledge has accumulated or compounded around a topic, or when /compound is invoked. Do NOT use for tracing evolution of thinking over time — use /trace for that.

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Skill: /compound [argument]

Show how knowledge about a topic has accumulated and compounded in the vault — from seed insight to current frontier — and whether it's still actively growing.

Don't: treat this as a summary of current knowledge — it's a map of how insights built on each other. Don't conflate with /trace; compounding is about accumulation, not evolution of position.

Steps

Parse the argument/topic from Shane's request.
Follow Qwen Protocol with:
- task: "Vault access (bash only, no MCP tools): obsidian search query='TERM' limit=10, obsidian read file='Note Name' (no .md). Show how knowledge about '[argument]' has accumulated and compounded in the vault. What insights build on earlier ones? What's the compounding trajectory?"
- skill: "compound"
Review Qwen's result, synthesize if needed, and present to Shane.

Fallback

If Qwen is unavailable:

Run obsidian search query='[argument]' limit=10 via bash to find notes related to the topic
Read the relevant notes by running obsidian read file='[note name]' via bash for each, ordered chronologically where possible
Map the compounding structure:
- What was the seed insight — the first or simplest version of the idea?
- What was added on top? Which later notes build explicitly on earlier ones?
- Where did combining two ideas produce a third that neither implied alone?
- What's the current frontier — the most sophisticated form this knowledge has reached?
Identify the compounding trajectory: is the knowledge still actively compounding or has it plateaued?
Present as a narrative arc: seed → accumulations → synthesis → current frontier → next potential compound
Note any gaps where compounding stalled and why