second-brain

A starter template for a persistent, graph-first "second brain" you drive with Obsidian and Claude Code.

The problem it solves: an AI assistant starts every session blank, and your raw thoughts, meeting notes, incidents, and ideas need a home that's searchable, linked, and still useful months later. This vault is that home — and it doubles as persistent memory for Claude across sessions and machines.

It is graph-first, not folder-first: folders let you browse, but [[wikilinks]] are how you think. Organization comes from the connections between notes, not from which directory they sit in. A note without links is a bug.

The four pillars

Everything here serves one of four Cs:

• Context — what the brain knows. brain/ (North Star, Memories, Key Decisions, Patterns,

Gotchas), workspace notes, and enforced frontmatter. Context is a contract, not a convention.

• Connections — how knowledge links. A real bidirectional wikilink graph, with backlinks as

evidence trails. This is the crown jewel — not folders-with-search.

• Capabilities — what the brain can do. Slash-command skills, reviewer subagents, and a

hook/automation layer that validates writes and auto-syncs.

• Cadence — the rhythm that keeps it alive. Session-start context loading, /standup, a rolling

handoff, and weekly task rollover. A second brain that isn't maintained decays into an archive.