compound

Use when the user wants to promote cross-project knowledge to the global Engineering/ folder, or says "promote knowledge", "compound notes", "knowledge synthesis", or "find repeated ideas across projects".

Compound Knowledge Promotion

Identify knowledge that has crystallized across multiple projects and promote it to a global Engineering/ note.

Workflow

  1. Scan project knowledge dirs — Call obsidian_list_notes with subfolder: "working". Filter results to paths matching working/*/knowledge/*.md.

  2. Semantic clustering — For each knowledge note path, call obsidian_rag_query with the note filename (without extension) as query, limit: 8. Track which notes appear in results from 2+ different projects — these are candidates.

  3. Read candidates — Call obsidian_read_note on shortlisted files. Look for shared definitions, patterns, or insights worth generalizing.

  4. Draft global note — Compose a new Engineering/<ConceptName>.md with:

    • Frontmatter: type: concept, created: <today>
    • Synthesized body (not copy-paste — rewrite for clarity)
    • ## Source Notes section with [[wikilinks]] back to originating notes

  5. Show draft to user — Present the proposed note content and path before creating. Ask for confirmation.

  6. Create on approval — Call obsidian_create_note with the approved content.

  7. Report cross-links — List which project knowledge notes should now add [[ConceptName]] to avoid re-discovering this knowledge next time.

Arguments

Optional topic hint: /compound authentication patterns

Tips

  • If obsidian_rag_query returns no results, suggest running /index first
  • If no notes appear in 2+ projects, report that and suggest manual promotion