Obsidian Literature Workflow
SkillDocs & knowledgeGives your agent an obsidian claude skill that organises academic papers into structured notes, syntheses, and drafts.
Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.
No other account needed.
Add ahel to your AI once: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex. Then ask it to use this.
Then ask your AI: use the Obsidian Literature Workflow skill
About this skill
Use this skill for project-scoped literature review built on Sources/Papers, with synthesis landing in Knowledge, writing handoff in Writing, and the default literature canvas under Maps/literature.canvas.
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by galaxy-dawn/claude-scholar in skills/obsidian-literature-workflow/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
This skill owns the project literature workflow.
Main flow
Sources/Papers/ -> Knowledge/ -> Writing/ -> Maps/literature.canvas
Default outputs
Sources/Papers/{paper-slug}.mdKnowledge/Literature Overview.mdKnowledge/Method Taxonomy.mdKnowledge/Research Gaps.mdKnowledge/Claim Map.mdWriting/related-work-draft.mdonly after promoted claims pass the evidence gateWriting/comparison-matrix.mdonly after promoted claims pass the evidence gateMaps/literature.canvas
Rules
- paper notes stay under
Sources/Papers/ - literature synthesis does not live inside source notes
- every synthesis note must link its supporting source notes
- every research gap must carry evidence
- every promoted claim must carry an Evidence Record ID, source type, claim strength, allowed wording, and forbidden stronger wording when it may flow into writing or rebuttal
- weak paper notes, abstract-only pages, and webpage placeholders may update coverage or
To-Read, but they cannot supportKnowledgeorWritingconclusions - default graph output is
Maps/literature.canvas - do not generate extra canvases unless explicitly requested
Read next
references/PAPER-NOTE-SCHEMA.mdreferences/LITERATURE-OVERVIEW.mdreferences/CLAIM-EXTRACTION.mdreferences/METHOD-TAXONOMY.mdreferences/RESEARCH-GAPS.mdreferences/LITERATURE-CANVAS.md
Signals
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- Last commit
- Sep 2026
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obsidian-literature-workflow- Source
- github.com/galaxy-dawn/claude-scholar