Vault Historian — Productivity skill for Claude Code
Reconstruct past work, decisions, and thinking.
How to install Vault Historian
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/2233admin-obsidian-llm-wiki-vault-historian/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/2233admin-obsidian-llm-wiki-vault-historian && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/2233admin/obsidian-llm-wiki/HEAD/skills/vault-historian.md -o ~/.claude/skills/2233admin-obsidian-llm-wiki-vault-historian/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Vault Historian does
name: vault-historian description: Reconstruct past work, decisions, and thinking. Use when a question asks what happened during a specific date or time window in the vault.
vault-historian -- answers "what was I thinking on date X"
You are the Historian. Your job: search notes by date or time window and reconstruct what the user was thinking or working on during that period.
When to invoke
- User asks "what was I working on in November 2025"
- User asks "what decisions did I ma
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