obsidian: add a vault starter pack; agents: remove unused skills - #20
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Add an obsidian module holding the Obsidian settings shared across vaults (Catppuccin appearance, hotkeys, vimrc, line-spacing snippet, per-plugin settings) and starter content for a new vault: AGENTS.md, Home.md, a gitignore, and meeting, project, person and design-note templates. seed-vault <path> copies these into a vault without overwriting anything, creates the concepts/projects/references/archive layout, and runs git init with no remote. It is listed in no role, since a vault path is chosen per machine and Obsidian rewrites its own JSON, so linking the files would push per-vault changes back into this repo. Compared with the personal vault, the copied config drops hotkeys for plugins that are not installed, keeps style settings for Catppuccin only, turns off DataviewJS, and sends attachments to attachments/.
Drop generate-notes, improve-notes, optimize and tiling-tree, which are no longer used. The first three hard-coded paths into a specific notes vault layout. Also remove the README's provenance note pointing at the plugin repo they were migrated from, which is no longer maintained here. vault is now the only shared skill.
Claude Code reads AGENTS.md when a directory has no CLAUDE.md, so a project with only a root AGENTS.md needs no CLAUDE.md shim. Its Claude skills still go in .claude/skills/, since Claude does not read .agents/skills/.
Review follow-ups on seed-vault: - Drop the work-vault wording and the meeting, project, person and design-note templates. AGENTS.md now describes a general vault that starts local with no remote. - Remove the Calendar plugin, which needs core Daily Notes (off), and the vimrc mappings that called daily notes, opened File Recovery under the name "recent", or were never bound. - Use YYYY-MM-DD in Datepicker, Date Inserter and Dataview. - Home.md finds projects by type instead of folder, so notes still in _inbox/ show up, and lists the inbox and recent edits. - Drop the [!definition] and [!theorem] callouts from AGENTS.md (no theme styles them), fix the command palette key (Ctrl+P), and tell agents to expand Templater tags themselves. - Add a module README listing the plugins by their display names, the theme, and how to install the Google Sans fonts. seed-vault now points there instead of printing a multi-line log. - Document hand-run modules in README.md and CLAUDE.md.
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Obsidian defaults to tabs, while nvim (expandtab) and prettier indent markdown with spaces, so saving an Obsidian-edited note in nvim rewrote every tab-indented list. Turn off "Indent using tabs" so both editors write the same 2-space indents.
- AGENTS.md: Home.md lists projects that are not complete, matching its query. - vimrc: drop the toggleCheckbox and toggleCode exmaps, which were never bound. - README: say "turn off Restricted mode" instead of the ambiguous "leave Restricted mode".
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Summary
obsidianmodule: a starter pack for new Obsidian vaults, applied withmodules/obsidian/seed-vault <vault-path>.generate-notes,improve-notes,optimizeandtiling-treeskills frommodules/agents, leavingvaultas the only shared skill, and note that a rootAGENTS.mdis enough for Claude Code.obsidian module
seed-vault:Projects/,Knowledge/,Archive/,Templates/,_Inbox/and.claude/skills/.obsidiansettings (appearance, hotkeys, core and community plugin lists, the line-spacing snippet, per-plugindata.json) and the vimrcAGENTS.md,Home.mdand.gitignoregit initwith no remoteFiles are copied rather than linked. On an existing vault, each settings file that differs is backed up to
~/.local/state/seed-vault/and replaced;AGENTS.md,Home.mdand.gitignoreare only added when missing. The script refuses to run while Obsidian is open. After seeding, each vault owns its copy and may drift. The module is in no role; README.md and CLAUDE.md now describe this kind of hand-run module.modules/obsidian/README.mdcovers the steps inside Obsidian (plugins by display name, the Catppuccin theme, fonts).Relative to the personal vault's config: hotkeys and vimrc mappings for plugins that are off or not installed are dropped, the Calendar plugin is removed, style settings keep only Catppuccin entries, DataviewJS is off, dates are
YYYY-MM-DDeverywhere, and indentation uses spaces (useTab: false) to match nvim and prettier.Skill cleanup
The removed skills are no longer used, and three of them hard-coded paths into the notes vault. Machines that ran
./installbefore this change keep dangling links under~/.claude/skills/and~/.agents/skills/until they are removed by hand.Testing
seed-vaultagainst a scratch directory: layout, config and starter files created, all JSON valid, git initialised with no remote.[skip]lines, nothing changed.app.jsonandcommunity-plugins.json: both backed up and replaced,workspace.jsonand an existingAGENTS.mdleft alone.shellcheck -S warningpasses.format(yyyy-mm-dd) on first load.🤖 Generated with Claude Code