Obsidian Synthesis Map

SkillDocs & knowledge

Use this skill when generating higher-level synthesis notes such as literature reviews, comparison matrices, project summaries, or other cross-note summaries inside the project knowledge base.

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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 Synthesis Map 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-synthesis-map/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

This is a legacy compatibility helper.

Despite the name, the current default workflow focuses on synthesis notes, not Bases or Canvas artifacts.

Default outputs

Writing/ synthesis notes
project summaries tied to Knowledge/, Papers/, Experiments/, and Results/
comparison notes that help writing, planning, or result interpretation

Guidelines

Use obsidian-project-memory as the main workflow authority.
Use $obsidian-markdown for note quality.
Keep synthesis notes anchored to real papers, experiments, results, and project questions via wikilinks.
Prefer one durable synthesis note per purpose instead of many overlapping summaries.
If the user explicitly asks for .base or .canvas artifacts, treat them as optional add-ons, not default outputs.

Default stance

Do not generate:

Views/*.base
Maps/*.canvas

unless the user explicitly asks for those artifacts.

Signals

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Last commit: Sep 2026

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

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