Wiki Mode

If you've ever felt the tension between Obsidian's flexibility and the paralysis of a blank vault, this closes the gap. It lets you pick LYT, PARA, Zettelkasten, or Generic as your organizing methodology, then routes every new page from wiki-ingest, save, and autoresearch to the right folder automatically. Mode config lives in .vault-meta/mode.json. Generic preserves the old v1.6/v1.7 behavior exactly, so existing setups stay stable. The real win is that PARA users get projects/areas/resources without manual filing, LYT users get MOC-linked atomic notes by default, and Zettelkasten practitioners get timestamped IDs in a flat structure. It doesn't auto-migrate old files when you switch modes, which is honest. You set it once and new content just lands where your methodology expects it.

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last updated: May 28, 2026

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Install

$ npx -y skills add agricidaniel/claude-obsidian --skill wiki-mode --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

Files

Route by vault methodology

This skill returns filing suggestions. It does not write knowledge pages or move existing notes. If .vault-meta/mode.json is absent, use generic. If the file exists but is invalid, fail closed and repair it through a reviewed configuration operation before suggesting routes; never silently substitute Generic for corrupt user configuration.

Resolve the installed product root from this skill's own location, not from the vault or current working directory:

PRODUCT_ROOT=/absolute/path/to/installed/claude-obsidian
CORE="$PRODUCT_ROOT/scripts/claude-obsidian.py"
MODE_HELPER="$PRODUCT_ROOT/scripts/wiki-mode.py"
test -f "$CORE" && test -f "$MODE_HELPER"

Every ../wiki/references/ link in this file resolves the same way, relative to this skill's own directory under $PRODUCT_ROOT, never relative to the selected vault's wiki/ directory.

Read and route safely

Always select the vault explicitly:

python3 "$MODE_HELPER" --vault "$VAULT" get
python3 "$MODE_HELPER" --vault "$VAULT" config
python3 "$MODE_HELPER" --vault "$VAULT" route concept "Concept name"
python3 "$MODE_HELPER" --vault "$VAULT" route source "Source title"

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