obsidian-capture
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Append todos, logs, learnings, and reflections to Obsidian daily or weekly notes and run the agent-todo queue via scripts/capture.py. Use when asked to add a todo, note something down, log this, capture an idea, set a due date, record a weekly reflection, or list or close the agent's tasks ("看你的 todo", "干活"). Not for searching notes (use obsidian-search) or standalone long-form notes.
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- ddenzu/karpathy-llm-wiki-second-braintheir own version, first seen Nov 8, 2026
- aiqianqian521/obsidian-skillstheir own version, first seen Nov 1, 2026
- willsu88/skillstheir own version, first seen Jul 31, 2026
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- ddenzu/karpathy-llm-wiki-second-brain★ 6same name
- willsu88/skills★ 2same name
- aiqianqian521/obsidian-skills★ 1same name
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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The file
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
1 rule. About 0 are common, 1 is distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.
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Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
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Distinctive · estimate
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
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Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Distinctive: line 37
Keep the capture text in the language the user used.
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 350,495 skill files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
obsidian-capture
One capture = one scripts/capture.py call. The script handles everything deterministic — resolves today's daily / this week's weekly note (creates it from the vault template if missing), routes to the right section, fills empty placeholder slots before appending, formats Tasks-plugin dates — so never edit the notes by hand. Needs $OBSIDIAN_VAULT and python3 (stdlib only).
Commands
scripts/capture.py todo "回 offer 邮件" # daily ✅ 其他, due today
scripts/capture.py todo "准备 design review" --must # daily 🎯 今天必须完成, due today
scripts/capture.py todo "写 freshrss theme" --weekly # weekly ## Todos, due = today+3d, capped at Sunday
scripts/capture.py todo "读论文" --due friday -p high # any todo: explicit due + ⏫ priority
scripts/capture.py log "和 recruiter 通话" # daily 🪵 Log, timestamped now (--time HH:MM to backfill)
scripts/capture.py learned "TIL 内容" # daily 📝 今日记 → 新知:
scripts/capture.py diary "发生的事" # daily 📝 今日记 → 新事:
scripts/capture.py fun "有趣的事" # weekly ## Something Fun This Week
scripts/capture.py reflect "杠杆" "答案全文" # weekly Reflections, under the Q: matching the substring
scripts/capture.py done "package 邮件" # tick first matching open #agent-todo (today's notes first, then all), appends ✅ date
scripts/capture.py annotate "加 CI" "blocked: 缺权限" # append a sub-bullet under first matching open #agent-todo
# agent-owned todos (#agent-todo): captured for a later, possibly weaker, agent to execute cold
scripts/capture.py todo "给 skills repo 加 CI" --agent \
--ctx "context: repo ~/Local/wilbeibi-skills,GitHub Actions 跑 skill lint" \
--ctx "done-when: push 后 Actions 全绿"
scripts/capture.py agenda # list open #agent-todo due ≤ today + context, file:line (--days 90 default)--due accepts today, tomorrow, +Nd, mon..sunday, this-week, next-week, YYYY-MM-DD, none — pass the user's phrase through instead of computing dates yourself. Run --help for the rest.
Judgment (the only part the model decides)
- Plain todos are the human's;
--agentones are yours.agenda/done/annotateonly ever match#agent-todolines, so they can't touch a human todo — but never mark one done without checking it against its owndone-when:. - Keep the capture text in the language the user used; don't translate or rephrase.
- "必须 / must / today's deadline / blocking" →
--must; otherwise a plain todo. - Daily vs weekly: default daily. Use
--weeklyonly when the user says weekly / 本周, or the task is week-scoped with no fixed day. A todo due far in the future still goes in today's daily — the Tasks plugin finds it by its 📅 date, not by file location. - "让 agent 做 / 给 agent 记" →
--agent. The executor may be a weak model with no conversation history, so the todo must be cold-start executable:--ctx "context: ..."with absolute paths/repos/URLs and--ctx "done-when: ..."acceptance criteria. Pull specifics from the current conversation; if you can't make it self-contained, ask the user rather than capture a vague one. (The script refuses--agentwithout--ctx.) - The script prints the file, section, and exact line it wrote — relay that as confirmation, and stop. If it errors (unmatched section/question/todo), fix the arguments; don't fall back to hand-editing.
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