Obsidian Project Lifecycle

SkillDocs & knowledge

Use this skill when the user wants to detach, archive, purge, or otherwise change the lifecycle state of an Obsidian project knowledge base.

Instructions available. Your AI can read the instructions. Execution depends on the setup they require.

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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 Project Lifecycle skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by brycewang-stanford/auto-empirical-research-skills in skills/33-Galaxy-Dawn-claude-scholar/skills/obsidian-project-lifecycle/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Use the shared helper script for deterministic lifecycle operations.

Role in the workflow

This is a supporting skill under obsidian-project-memory.

Use it for project-level state changes and, when needed, note-level removal or rename flows.

Project-level commands

python3 ../obsidian-project-memory/scripts/project_kb.py lifecycle --cwd "$PWD" --mode detach
python3 ../obsidian-project-memory/scripts/project_kb.py lifecycle --cwd "$PWD" --mode archive
python3 ../obsidian-project-memory/scripts/project_kb.py lifecycle --cwd "$PWD" --mode purge

Note-level command

python3 ../obsidian-project-memory/scripts/project_kb.py note-lifecycle --cwd "$PWD" --mode archive --note "Results/Old-Result.md"
python3 ../obsidian-project-memory/scripts/project_kb.py note-lifecycle --cwd "$PWD" --mode purge --note "Results/Old-Result.md"
python3 ../obsidian-project-memory/scripts/project_kb.py note-lifecycle --cwd "$PWD" --mode rename --note "Experiments/Old-Name.md" --dest "Experiments/New-Name.md"

Policy

Detach: stop syncing, keep vault content.
Archive: default for “remove this project's knowledge”; move the project to Archive/ and disable syncing.
Purge: only when the user explicitly requests permanent deletion.
Rename / move: treat as update plus link repair, not delete plus create.

Always summarize what was removed, what was preserved, and whether auto-sync remains enabled.

Signals

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Item type: skill
Key: obsidian-project-lifecycle
Source: github.com/brycewang-stanford/auto-empirical-research-skills

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