brain

Routes natural language requests to PARA vault skills and commands.

6|1|Updated Nov 26, 2025
One-click install
npx skills add https://github.com/nathanvale/side-quest-marketplace-old --skill brain-nathanvale
Or copy as Structured Prompt for Agent
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Skill: brain
Source: https://github.com/nathanvale/side-quest-marketplace-old/tree/main/plugins/para-obsidian/skills/brain
Command: npx skills add https://github.com/nathanvale/side-quest-marketplace-old --skill brain-nathanvale

SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION & REQUIREMENTS

💡 This Skill includes references (resource) components.

What problem does it solve? Managing a PARA-method Obsidian vault requires knowing which of many specialized skills to invoke for each task. This orchestrator removes that burden by interpreting plain-language requests and delegating to the correct skill, while also monitoring vault health and offering coaching nudges. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Natural Language Routing: Maps requests to Capture, Organize, Distill, Express, and Maintain skills using a priority-ordered intent detection system. - Vault Health Checks: Runs a haiku preflight subagent to gather inbox counts, SLO breaches, and stale projects, then proposes fixes through a confirm-before-acting healing flow. - Coaching & Triage: Provides urgency triage for overwhelm, project review observations, and single-sentence follow-up nudges adapted to engineering or personal project contexts. - Use Case: Say "save this article and remind me what projects are stale" and the brain clips the URL, then reviews your projects with coaching observations. ## Quick Start Ask the brain to triage your inbox or tell it what you want to capture in plain language.

Frequently Asked Questions about brain

High-intent search queries and answers about installing and using this skill.

FAQPage Schema
How do I route requests to PARA vault skills automatically?

Describe what you need in plain language and the orchestrator matches your intent against a priority-ordered routing table covering capture, organize, distill, express, and maintain categories. It then invokes the correct skill with your arguments and reports the result.

What is the PARA method for Obsidian note organization?

PARA organizes notes into Projects, Areas, Resources, and Archives based on actionability. This orchestrator implements Tiago Forte's CODE workflow (Capture, Organize, Distill, Express) on top of that structure.

Does the brain skill modify vault notes directly?

No, it never executes vault operations itself. It delegates all writes to specialist skills like clip, triage, and quick-create, using read-only MCP tools only for context gathering and disambiguation.

How does vault health checking work in this skill?

A haiku preflight subagent gathers inbox counts, SLO breach events from a JSONL log, and project data before routing. If issues are found, it proposes one fix at a time from a maintenance playbook and requires explicit approval before acting.

What happens when the brain routes to the wrong skill?

Correction phrases like "wrong one" trigger a re-route to the intended skill and log the mistake via the reflect skill. Corrections repeated three or more times become active learnings that override default routing.