query
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Answer a question from the vault. Search the notes (qmd if installed, otherwise Grep/Glob), read the top notes in full, and synthesize an answer with wikilink citations — then offer to file the answer back into the vault so explorations compound. Use whenever the user asks a question the vault may already cover.
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- hydra-db/hydradb-claude-codetheir own version, first seen Nov 8, 2026
- justmytwospence/strava-mcptheir own version, first seen Nov 8, 2026
- levi-qiao/obsidian-llm-wikitheir own version, first seen Nov 8, 2026
- prdlk/skillstheir own version, first seen Nov 1, 2026
- honeydew-ai/honeydew-ai-coding-agents-pluginstheir own version, first seen Nov 1, 2026
- aibtcdev/skillstheir own version, first seen Oct 26, 2026
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- garrytan/gbrain★ 32ksame name
- facebookincubator/velox★ 4.3ksame name
- jason-effi-lab/karpathy-llm-wiki-vault★ 718same name
- duckdb/duckdb-skills★ 598same name
- ArtemXTech/claude-code-obsidian-starter★ 225same name
- HurricaHjz/SecondSelf★ 156same name
- romarayt/raytsystem-public-os★ 140same name
- HurricaHjz/second-yourself★ 105same name
- StarRocks/starrocks-debug-skills★ 77same name
- MetamusicX/zissa-wiki★ 58same name
28 more not listed
How matches are found. Word for word: the exact same text. Edited: shares passages with this file (“99% same” means 99% of its five-word phrases also appear here; 10% or more counts). Their own version: similar meaning, or, weakest, the same name. We can’t tell which project had it first. Projects are counted among the 200 most-starred candidates, and mentions are links to the repository we found, up to 50 per site, so both counts are a floor.
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- AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- CLAUDE.mdCLAUDE.md
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The file
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
4 rules. 0 are common, 2 are distinctive, and 2 are very specific to this project.
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Common
Most of the 31 edited versions we read keep these.
2
Distinctive
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
2
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Very specific: line 22
No qmd (default path): search in two passes — (a) scan the ## Index sections of the topic starter notes (04-Resources/<Topic>/<Topic>.md) …
- Distinctive: line 27
Read the top notes in full: before answering — search snippets are only leads.
- Very specific: line 35
Offer to file the answer back: If the answer required real synthesis (a comparison, an analysis, a connection across notes), it shouldn't …
- Distinctive: line 44
Never present un-sourced recall as if it came from the vault — if you add general knowledge on top of vault content, label it as such.
“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 31 edited versions of this file we could read. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
<!-- Adapted from the query skill of a private LLM-wiki repo (see BACKLOG.md), following the
LLM-wiki pattern (karpathy). Reworked for this PARA vault: qmd optional, Grep fallback. -->query — answer a question from the vault
Answer from what the vault actually contains, not from model memory. Vault conventions live in CLAUDE.md.
Folder paths in this skill are the template defaults — the authoritative paths live in the "Folder roles" table in CLAUDE.md's Vault structure section. Look folders up there by role — never trust the literal defaults on a renamed or non-English vault.
Steps
- Search the vault. Probe once with
command -v qmd:- qmd installed:
qmd query "<the user's question>" -n 10(hybrid search + re-rank). For search syntax beyond that, defer toqmd skill show. - No qmd (default path): search in two passes — (a) scan the
## Indexsections of the topic starter notes (04-Resources/<Topic>/<Topic>.md) and the project/area files, (b) Grep key terms and their synonyms across**/*.md(a question about "clients" may be filed under "customers"). Follow[[wikilinks]]from the hits one hop out.
- qmd installed:
- Read the top notes in full before answering — search snippets are only leads. Include the linked source note when a concept note cites one.
- Synthesize the answer from the retrieved text, citing notes as
[[wikilinks]]. Distinguish what a cited source claims from established fact. If the vault doesn't cover the question, say so plainly rather than inventing — and point out that the gap is aningestcandidate. - Offer to file the answer back. If the answer required real synthesis (a comparison, an
analysis, a connection across notes), it shouldn't vanish into chat history — offer to save it
as a note in the fitting
04-Resources/<Topic>/(or the relevant project/area file). If accepted: write the note with frontmatter and wikilinks to everything it drew on, add it to the## Indexsection of the topic's starter note, log one line in today's daily note, and re-embed if qmd is installed. Skip the offer for trivial lookups.
Quality bar
- Never present un-sourced recall as if it came from the vault — if you add general knowledge on top of vault content, label it as such.
- Cited notes must actually support the claim — re-read, don't pattern-match on titles.
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